BEIRUT: The Future Movement has voiced doubts over Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s call for dialogue, the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported Friday.
“The Future Movement has a lot of reservations about Hezbollah’s call for dialogue between the two sides,” Al-Watan said, quoting sources.
It said the significance of dialogue was to reach results “especially that the devil is in the detail.”
But the problem was not just the “detail,” Al-Watan said. The problem lies with Hezbollah’s outlook and position on fundamental issues regarding state sovereignty and legitimate authority.
Hezbollah’s behavior over the past years proves that the group has gone too far in violating state institutions and striking at coexistence, the daily said.
It said Hezbollah had also showed that it put Iran’s interests before Lebanon’s, had threatened the country's security with its illegitimate weapons and sought to torpedo the fundamentals of the Lebanese entity.
“This is why it is not easy to reach an agreement with Hezbollah,” Al-Watan argued.
Nevertheless, the newspaper stressed the need for Hezbollah and the Future Movement to maintain contact with one another.
“Communication is necessary, but dialogue must be based on clear foundation – acknowledging the fundamentals that, without them, the Lebanese state wouldn’t have been established and the nation would have ceased to exist,” Al-Watan wrote.
“Will Hezbollah accept to discuss disarmament or its withdrawal from Syria? This is the important question and this is where dialogue starts,” the daily concluded.
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