Charbel Moussa

Energy Transition | Middle East Geopolitics | Lebanese Politics (mostly in Arabic) #LebanonFirst. Opinions are my own

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

إن قدّر لك يا نزار ان تأتي الى وطننا لحظات
بزيارة
وتتأمل بحالنا بعد عقد على رحلك لرأيت
الحقارة
لصرخت غضباً وأجهشت بكائاً
بمرارة
كم إن وصفك في الماضي لحكامنا اليوم
جدارة
آه نحن شعب نتلذذ بالجهل وحكم
القذارة....

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

ذل وإحتلال وتعتير

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

@AmadeaBeyrouthi Who you see on TV are their idiots for mass consumption. The military mind is run by IRGC and they shouldn’t be underestimated. Every action is premeditated for a specific reason

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

The ambush today by Hezbollah on the French UNIFIL troops and killing a soldier isn’t a coincidence. This is a message to keep quiet, after the French general Philippe Sidos spoke out about the reality on the ground.
Will the French respond or let the diplomatic red tape prevail?

[BFM @BFMTV]

“L’armée libanaise était très proche du Hezbollah”, note Philippe Sidos, ancien chef du bureau de liaison de la Finul

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

@BFMTV A hard truth.
The army is still running on a 1990s Syrian blueprint implemented by Emile Lahoud. We can’t have sovereignty with a lazy Lebanon-Last doctrine. We need a total institutional reboot and for that matter leaders who value the country over positions and bank accounts

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

ويبقى زمن الانتحارات

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

@MarioNawfal “Most vocal critics of Hezbollah”?!
You have always been a propagandist for Iran axis in the region. Just take a look at your X feed….

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

3- This agreement is between Lebanon and Israel. Hezbollah remains an enemy of both. As such the Lebanese Government and Israel maintain similar rights to act against it.
The Lebanese should read this agreement clearly, and stop wondering why Israel is still hitting Hezbollah.

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

3 key sentences in the ceasefire agreement:
1- Israel and Lebanon affirm that the two countries are not at war
2- toward a permanent security and peace agreement
3- Israel shall preserve its right to take all necessary measures in self-defense, at any time https://t.co/OXEaZYG9SX

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

2- At last, intentions are clear. Not a ceasefire, not an armistice, not a localised deal on some points. Both countries aim for a long lasting peace and normalised relations that could enable the development of Lebanon into the country it deserves to be.

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

Peace will be beneficial for the Shia community, lifting it from perpetual war situation towards an era of economic development and prosperity
https://t.co/ppujyB3aJm

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

@riachi_jean There is a limit to what you can expect from an academic UN bureaucrat. More than that, it becomes an illusion

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

عن فيديوهات بنت جبيل…… فيلق القدس الإيراني المستعد يدمر لبنان كله رح يسأل عن كم شبّ شيعي؟!

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

@KevorkAlmassian For how long will you keep lying?

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

Hezbollah era has brought nothing but destruction, collapse and isolation of Lebanon. We’ll never be free as long as our land is a frontline for someone else’s fight. Peace and a new governance model are the keys to revive the country. Time to end this era. Time to choose life🇱🇧

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

A very good take on peace with Israel.
Such a peace deal, and a new governance system, will liberate Lebanon and cease it from being a regional battle ground.

[Bechara Gerges @BecharaGerges]

🚩 Peace with Israel is the single most terrifying word in Lebanese politics, not because it threatens Lebanon, but because it threatens every faction that has built its empire on the permanent absence of it.

I have watched this country for decades, and I will tell you what no one on a podium has the courage to say: the people who oppose peace are not protecting Lebanon; they are protecting their own relevance. Hezbollah cannot exist without the “enemy” at the gate. Iran cannot justify its corridor to the Mediterranean without a front line that never closes. And every warlord turned statesman who laundered a militia past into a cabinet future needs permanent instability the way a parasite needs a host.

That is why they prefer death over peace. Not Lebanese death, which has never cost them a single sleepless night, but the death of the system that feeds them. Christians watched their presidency hollowed into a rubber stamp issued from Dahiyeh. Sunnis watched Rafik Hariri assassinated and his political heirs forced to coexist with the architecture of his assassination. The Druze watched their autonomy reduced to a phone call from a handler. Every community outside Hezbollah’s orbit has been living under undeclared occupation disguised as national unity, and the absence of peace is the lock on the cage.
Sixty years of rejectionism didn’t liberate a square meter, didn’t build a single power plant, and didn't secure a future. It buried 200,000 people, bankrupted a nation, exiled a generation, and delivered total strategic control to a militia that answers to Tehran and calls it sovereignty.

Anyone still defending this isn’t a patriot. They are either an operative, or a hostage so conditioned by captivity that they have mistaken the warden for a guardian.

This is why peace isn’t just a diplomatic position; it is the single act capable of collapsing the entire architecture of Lebanese captivity. The moment the war justification disappears, Hezbollah loses its veto, Iran loses its last ideological foothold on the Mediterranean, and every political actor in Beirut is forced to stand naked, stripped of the conflict they’ve hidden behind for half a century.

And then, only then, the Lebanese can finally have the conversation that’s been strangled since Taif: what does this country actually look like when no one holds a gun to the table? Perhaps it’s federalism. Perhaps it’s partition. Perhaps it’s a model no one has written yet. But that conversation is impossible as long as one armed faction holds the permanent right to override every community in the name of a resistance that resists nothing except Lebanon’s own survival.

The opponents of peace know this perfectly well. They know that the day Lebanon signs, their operating myth dies. That’s why they will fight it with every tool they have: religious guilt, nationalist shame, sectarian fear. Because peace doesn’t just end a conflict with Israel; it starts a reckoning with them. And they would rather bury another generation than face that reckoning.

Enough. The absence of peace has already cost Lebanon everything except its last heartbeat, and the men who caused it are now asking for more time. They’ve had a century. The answer is no.

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

To claim these men died defending Lebanon is a historical lie. They weren't martyrs for our soil; they were killed for Iranian interests. They valued their lives so little that they traded sovereignty for betrayal, choosing the role of the proxy over the duty of the citizen.

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

@MariamAlbassam هذا المنشور تظهير لما يعرف بالصحافية الكاذبة. ليس عيب إن صارحت الناس ان ما كتبت هو رأي شخصي. لكن محاولة الوحي أن لديها معلومات وما كتبته هو خبر صحافي هي قلة أخلاق مهنية

[Charbel Moussa @cmoussa81]

للتاريخ:
هؤلاء لم يسقطوا دفاعاً عن لبنان، ودماؤهم لن تزهر حريّة.
هؤلاء دفعوا ثمن خدمتهم لإيران فكانت دماؤهم أرخص من مصالح الغريب.