document · Interview
Sami Gemayel (leader of the Kataeb Party; Lebanese Christian sovereigntist) — exclusive Annahar interview reproduced on the party's official site (~Sep 2024, during the Israel–Hezbollah war): no reform, recovery, stability or presidential election is possible while Hezbollah's weapons dominate Lebanon; Hezbollah must submit to the state and hand its arms to the Lebanese Army, and war-and-peace decisions belong to the Lebanese alone.
English 
Lebanon 2024-09-11 Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary
Politician: Sami Gemayel
Original source: https://en.kataeb.org/articles/gemayel-sovereignty-stability-and-reform-impossible-under-hezbollahs-armed-control-
Content
"No reforms, economy, political or security stability, or presidential elections can occur in Lebanon under the dominance of Hezbollah's weapons"
"We must unite and have the courage to tell Hezbollah that we refuse to live as second-class citizens in our country" English translation
[Source is English — en.kataeb.org, the official website of Lebanon's Kataeb (Phalange) Party; this reproduces, in English, an exclusive interview Gemayel gave to the Annahar newspaper, so it is the actor's own channel affirming his words. Page metadata dates it to ~11 September 2024, during the autumn-2024 Israel–Hezbollah war; treat the day as approximate.] Declared positions of Sami (Samy) Gemayel — leader of the Kataeb Party and an MP, a leading Lebanese Christian sovereigntist. He argues that "No reforms, economy, political or security stability, or presidential elections can occur in Lebanon under the dominance of Hezbollah's weapons," and calls on the Lebanese to "unite and have the courage to tell Hezbollah that we refuse to live as second-class citizens in our country." His conditions (per the interview): Hezbollah must submit to the authority of the Lebanese state and its constitution and hand its weapons to the Lebanese Army; decisions of war and peace must rest solely with the Lebanese people; and he vows to oppose any deal that compromises Lebanon's sovereignty or "hands control of the country to Iran" — invoking the non-sectarian March 14, 2005 movement against Syrian occupation. This is the Lebanese sovereigntist / state-monopoly-on-arms pole — the direct ideological counterweight to the "resistance" figures documented elsewhere (Hezbollah's Naim Qassem, Amal's Nabih Berri, the Houthis' Abdul-Malik al-Houthi), who reject disarmament. [Axes: regime-stance (exclusive state monopoly on arms — strongly), regional-stance / west-alignment (anti-Iran, anti-"axis of resistance"), palestinian-question (opposing Hezbollah's Gaza "support war"), democracy / sectarianism (non-sectarian, equal citizenship).]
How to cite this document
This is a third-party primary text. Cite the original author and source — Tayyar hosts the verbatim excerpt for research access, but Tayyar is not the author. The "Retrieved via" line at the bottom records your access path through Tayyar for transparency.
In-text
(Gemayel, 2024) Gemayel, S.. (2024). Sami Gemayel (leader of the Kataeb Party; Lebanese Christian sovereigntist) — exclusive Annahar interview reproduced on the party's official site (~Sep 2024, during the Israel–Hezbollah war): no reform, recovery, stability or presidential election is possible while Hezbollah's weapons dominate Lebanon; Hezbollah must submit to the state and hand its arms to the Lebanese Army, and war-and-peace decisions belong to the Lebanese alone.. en.kataeb.org. Retrieved July 28, 2026, from https://en.kataeb.org/articles/gemayel-sovereignty-stability-and-reform-impossible-under-hezbollahs-armed-control-
Gemayel, Sami. 2024. "Sami Gemayel (leader of the Kataeb Party; Lebanese Christian sovereigntist) — exclusive Annahar interview reproduced on the party's official site (~Sep 2024, during the Israel–Hezbollah war): no reform, recovery, stability or presidential election is possible while Hezbollah's weapons dominate Lebanon; Hezbollah must submit to the state and hand its arms to the Lebanese Army, and war-and-peace decisions belong to the Lebanese alone.." en.kataeb.org. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://en.kataeb.org/articles/gemayel-sovereignty-stability-and-reform-impossible-under-hezbollahs-armed-control-.
@misc{doc-document-3b9994eb-dce9-45d4-aa0a-ff2082379be3,
author = {Gemayel, Sami},
title = {Sami Gemayel (leader of the Kataeb Party; Lebanese Christian sovereigntist) — exclusive Annahar interview reproduced on the party's official site (~Sep 2024, during the Israel–Hezbollah war): no reform, recovery, stability or presidential election is possible while Hezbollah's weapons dominate Lebanon; Hezbollah must submit to the state and hand its arms to the Lebanese Army, and war-and-peace decisions belong to the Lebanese alone.},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-09-11},
howpublished = {Online; hosted at en.kataeb.org},
url = {https://en.kataeb.org/articles/gemayel-sovereignty-stability-and-reform-impossible-under-hezbollahs-armed-control-},
urldate = {2026-07-28},
note = {Retrieved via Tayyar at https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/documents/3b9994eb-dce9-45d4-aa0a-ff2082379be3},
} Retrieved via Tayyar: https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/documents/3b9994eb-dce9-45d4-aa0a-ff2082379be3 on July 28, 2026. Tayyar is a research host for primary sources, not the author of this document.