“One word sparks widespread reactions… Mr. El-Sayed’s comment on Aoun’s speech”

In a post on the “X” platform, MP Jamil Al-Sayyed commented on President Joseph Aoun’s speech before the diplomatic corps, questioning whether the President erred in its essence and in the timing he chose to deliver it.

Al-Sayyed pointed out that President Aoun, since assuming power, has adopted an objective approach in dealing with the issue of the resistance in the south, “neither neutral, nor supportive, nor opposed,” noting that the government has taken important decisions that aroused the displeasure of the resistance and its supporters, but these supporters absorbed those decisions and facilitated their implementation, despite their reservations, realizing the extent of the external pressures to which the President and his partners in government are exposed.

Al-Sayyed paused at the sharp reactions that followed the President’s speech, questioning the reason for this violence compared to the reactions to the previous government’s decisions, stressing that “decisions, even if harmful, are read and absorbed by adults, while the words are heard by the general public, so if they hurt or wound them, they get upset and revolt.”

In this context, he explained that the moral insult occurred in two main points, the first when the President quoted a phrase from the words of Sayyed the Martyr about the conflict with Israel, considering that saying that “in the first year of the term, no bullet was fired at Israel” contradicts, according to his expression, the facts on the ground, as “Israel did not leave a day during that year without destroying, bombing, killing and displacing.”

Al-Sayyed added that the moral and material pain resulting from this talk cannot be legally addressed, considering that the national interest requires overcoming what happened “and biting on it” in this sensitive circumstance, warning against the many who are lying in wait to stir up sedition at home and abroad.

He concluded by pointing out, based on his experience with a number of presidents in Lebanon and abroad, that most presidents do not write their speeches themselves, even if they participate in preparing them with their advisors, warning that “how many reckless advisors have ruined the era of a president, because the hurtful word, out of place and timing, is a bullet.”