January 27, 2026
A diplomatic source confirms that there is no turning back in the arms control issue and that the second phase of the plan will be implemented soon while research into settling the third phase is underway.
It was reported that an official headquarters stipulated that a delegation representing the families of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli prisons not make a statement from the headquarters’ podium regarding deliberations inside.
– The phrase “We want to have fun,” taken from Haifa Wehbe’s song, has been repeated on every tongue, from the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the media professionals who orbit him, all the way to Avichay Adraee, who used it in a threat directed at the Lebanese.
– President Nabih Berri now supports the option of “technically postponing” the elections so that they are held while expatriates spend the summer in Lebanon, with the six seats cancelled. This approval has been communicated to those concerned.
The funds of the Iraqi Protocol are still managed and distributed in a non-transparent manner within the Directorate of Higher Education at a time when the Directorate is demanding private universities for dues due under the Protocol exceeding $500,000 without sufficient clarifications about the mechanism of calculation, distribution and spending.
The strike of full-time professors at the Lebanese University highlights the financial obstacles facing the sabbatical file, and the cost of vacating more than 1,600 professors has been calculated on the basis of the current salary. Any increase in the salaries of full-time employees will automatically lead to doubling the cost of vacating contractors, which will exacerbate the financial burden on the treasury.
A Christian party and a small, ancient party concluded an electoral agreement extending to all electoral districts, to support unified lists and determine the numbers of candidates for both parties in each district from the north to Beirut and Mount Lebanon, with voters being directed to specific candidates in the Bekaa and the south.
A prominent ambassador was surprised by what he described as the amount of false information and analysis. Based on it, he expressed his country’s positions on sensitive Lebanese and regional issues.
-More than one diplomatic party is seeking to revive a sensitive monitoring and implementation mechanism whose work has been disrupted, even if in a formal way, but the position of the obstructed party is not yet known.
A prominent party is keen to organize its activities in closed places, to prevent targeting or collecting information about the participating figures.
Lebanon is awaiting specific answers to the demands included in the mediations that are still ongoing throughout its history.
The mutual campaign is intensifying from representatives of a well-known bloc and the ministers of the “Lebanese Forces” against the backdrop of positions related to selling gold to some of them and others against the backdrop of failure to promise to provide electricity..
Subtleties
A prominent Western official said that the problem with the American equation in Lebanon and Gaza is that it cannot advance without the resistance’s response after the war reached a stalemate and the war of attrition became an alternative that does not achieve the goals, but rather perpetuates the problem. However, it does not seek a compromise with the resistance forces, but rather wants them to commit suicide, so it says there is no place for Hamas in the future of Gaza and Hamas must surrender its weapons. On the Palestinian level, it does not offer a reasonable solution that justifies Hamas to make concessions, such as opening a political path to a solution that gives hope for the establishment of a Palestinian state. Rather, it adopts the Israeli vision based on completely liquidating the Palestinian issue. In Lebanon, you want both, the weapon of resistance and the achievement of Israeli gains that go beyond Resolution 1701 in favor of a buffer zone and Israeli security arrangements, while things were taking place in similar cases and they succeeded through offers made to the concerned forces in exchange for their weapons, with gains in power if their issue was participation, or with national gains if the issue was occupation, and the threat of war again only takes matters to complexity and escalation without a horizon for a solution or resolution.
backstage
A former security reference said that the messages that reach Hezbollah about the war revolve around a request not to intervene in any war with Iran in exchange for postponing its elimination until after the war on Iran. No one talked about offering the party an attractive settlement in exchange for non-interference so that there would be something to discuss. Those who object to Hezbollah’s position of confirming the fateful connection with Iran forget that all their rhetoric is based on considering it the next link for Iran after the war. No one said that the party’s non-involvement in the Iran war gives it guarantees of non-retaliation, persecution and assassination, so that it can be blamed. If he refuses, America’s example on the day of the Gulf War can be used when it offered to the late former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad to open a negotiating path in Madrid to restore the Golan in exchange for not supporting Iraq in the Kuwait War. Today, the slogan of America’s opponents is “I am drowning, so what is my fear of getting wet” and their slogan is “On me and on my enemies, O Lord.”
