The head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc MP Michel Aoun said on Tuesday that his bloc wasn’t consulted in forming the dialogue table committee although it has the right to voice its opinion.
 
“We want to be represented by a Greek Catholic, Elias Skaff, instead of Michel Pharaon,” Aoun told reporters following his parliamentary bloc’s weekly meeting.
 
Commenting on the March 14 bloc’s call for the participation of representatives from the Arab League in the dialogue, Aoun wondered whether Lebanese have not become adults yet. “We recognize our interest and we don’t want any foreign participation at the national dialogue table,” he pointed out.
 
The General recalled that politicians have discussed the Resistance’s arms between 2006 and 2009. “The general situations have not changed so that we change our opinion, that’s why we are upholding those arms, more and more, given the dangerous situation,” he said. “Let those who claim that no one authorized (Hezbollah Secretary General) Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah to defend himself ask themselves who authorized them to bear arms in the 1970s.”
 
Aoun, meanwhile, stressed that Lebanese have the right to possess weapons that can reach all Israeli territories, noting that these weapons are for defense. “If Israel decides to wage war, it will lose because it doesn’t have much ability to bear the expenses,” he pledged. “The best thing for them is to halt their threats because the Arab world is vigilant,” he went on to say.