Basil on the refugee issue: This is the solution

The head of the Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil, confirmed that “the solution is not to support the army to prevent the migration of displaced Syrians to Europe, but rather to help them return to Syria,” continuing: “The position on Syria has no political horizon, and there is future political cooperation with the Syrian president.” Bashar al-Assad from Saudi Arabia and others.”

Bassil stated in an interview with “Russia Today” that “the problem is that the political class in Lebanon is subject to external will, and every Syrian economically displaced person must be returned to Syria, and every displaced person who has a political or security problem has a different treatment. He either goes to a third country, or temporarily.” In Lebanon to solve its crisis.”

On the other hand, he considered that “defeat will befall Israel if it moves to the northern front,” adding: “Israel must choose between violence or peace with Saudi Arabia and giving the Palestinians the right to self-determination and declaring a Palestinian state.”

He pointed out that “Israel is a creation of the West and the cost of its survival has become exorbitant. Today there has been a distribution of roles in the region and Iran is the biggest winner. I do not think that any of the Arab countries wants Hamas to win.”

Bassil saw that “the first negotiator in the war with Lebanon today is the American, and Hezbollah has contact with the Americans indirectly, and today the American envoy Amos Hochstein is communicating with Speaker of the House of Representatives Nabih Berri.”

He stressed that “Lebanon must keep the war away from it, unless Israel wants war, and then we will move to a state of defense,” noting that “as a result of the current war, there will be no restoration of Lebanese rights, but rather a return to the 1701 Agreement in 2006.”

He explained, “Lebanon cannot carry the front alone, and today the negotiations between Hamas, Israel, and Lebanon are awaiting an agreement on the truce in Gaza, and we are not with this.”

The leader of the movement said: “There is a link between the Gaza war and the presidential election in Lebanon, and what is the fault of the constitutional institutions in Lebanon with this undeclared link?” He rejected the deadly wait for the presidential entitlement, and this issue requires a national sovereign soul.”