Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Tuesday that Iran-backed Hezbollah was “not fit to lecture on patriotism” after the militia’s leader, Naim Qassem, accused Lebanese authorities of helping Israel by holding direct talks with the country.
“The greatest help to Israel was provided by those who unilaterally drew Lebanon into the adventures of futile wars... and granted it pretexts to attack our country,” Salam wrote on X.
“Those who unilaterally take the decision of war and try to continue to seize the state’s decision-making, and to tie Lebanon to foreign calculations and axes, ignoring the interests of their community and the Lebanese in general, are not fit to lecture on patriotism, not to mention on sovereignty,” he added.
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Salam’s remarks came after Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem condemned ongoing direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, saying they would bring Lebanon “nothing but shame, humiliation, disappointment and successive concessions.”
