Hariri Says Saddening Lebanon 'Can't Even Hold a Cabinet Session'

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri on Sunday lamented that Lebanon is nowadays “standing on the brink of hell” after it once was “the paradise of the Levant and the Arabs’ forum for civilization, dialogue, culture and democracy.”

“But the wars of others on its soil and the conflict of sects that is open to exchanging hatred and to seeking foreign support have plunged it into hell and handed its fate, independence and democratic system to savage minds that are experts in producing failed states,” Hariri said in a series of tweets marking Lebanon’s Independence Day.

He added: “It is very, very saddening that our country’s independence has fallen prey to successive waves of political, security and sectarian madness and that its state is even unable to hold a Cabinet session.”

“And it is very, very saddening that the Lebanese citizen, after 78 years of independence, is feeling the need for a free, sovereign and independent state that is not the hostage of a party or a sect nor a launchpad for the guards of Arab civil wars,” Hariri went on to say.