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Guardians of the Cedars   
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Principles and Political Program

Principles:

Certain basic conditions must be availed to secure:
The durability of political movements.
The realization of their aims.
We have therefore incorporated the following principles to found our Movement on:
Intellect
People vanish, while intellect lives on. Our Movement gives first priority to this matter.
Alertness
Our Movement is not only aware of all our Nation's political, social and economic problems, but it is fully conscious of their causes. It is capable of the diagnosis and possesses the cure.
Insight Our Movement possesses all the solutions to our chronic crisis. These
solutions, having undergone a meticulous and rational study, can
radically and practically remedy our case and modernize our Country.
Decency
No Movement can carry out any reform unless it enjoys morality and idealism. Our movement, being extremely cautious about this fact, has made it impossible for immoral members to find way to its ranks.
Discipline
Our Movement is distinguished by the enlightened discipline of its members, a conviction
which is essential for the execution of reform by political movements and parties.
Charity, Insight, Freedom
All members holding responsible positions must enjoy these qualities. By charity, we mean the love of God, of the earth and of the human beings. Our senior executives must have great concern for their subordinates and must be exemplary in their conduct, even in their personal
manners.
Sense of Responsibility
Irrespective of the post or the mission allocated to them, all members must act as if they were the only persons held responsible in that specific instance, and use their initiative, relinquishing dependence and resignation.
Missionary spirit
All members are enticed to preach their convictions, enlighten the greatest possible number of our countrymen and prepare the national opinion to accept and support the new reform movement.
Hierarchy
As many cadres as possible must be rationally availed By the Party, to accommodate the greatest number of new partisans.
Ambition
We are convinced that the new State we contemplate, must be founded on national pride and manned By dynamic and resolute leadership. Ambition generates power from weakness and valiance from hesitance.
We are also convinced that small nations feed on colossal ambitions and flourish on colossal roles.
 
Political Program:

The "Guardians of the Cedars" party has its political program and ideology stemming from Lebanon's history, geography and great heritage. Its aim is to preserve this heritage. I dare to say that this program is the most daring and comprehensive national pact to be proposed in Lebanon since 1943.
The basic priorities of the program are as follows:
THE LIBIRATION OF LEBANON
Liberating Lebanon constitutes the main and insistent target of all Lebanese from all communities and sects. Security, political and economical stability could never be achieved without the complete liberation of Lebanon from all the foreign forces that occupies it.
These forces are:
The Syrian occupation which is the foundation of all other occupations. Syria has a historic greed to make Lebanon the western province of greater Syria.
The occupation of the unfaithful Palestinians that destroyed Lebanon.
The uncivilized Iranian occupation that seeks the destruction of Lebanon's cultural identity and push it backward to the old ages.
We must never forget that the Israeli army is occupying a small part of south Lebanon, but meanwhile, we fully understand that getting rid of the Syrian, Palestinian and Iranian occupations will eventually lead in a direct manner to be free from the Israeli occupation with the condition that Lebanon is able to secure its borders with Israel using its own forces. We have a firm belief that Israel, since it was founded till now, has no geographical or water acquisitions in Lebanon and it is clear that Israel did not build any settlements in southern Lebanon as it did in Sinai, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza strip.
Cutting down the number of foreigners in Lebanon after they have exceeded 50% of the total sum of Lebanon's population (internationally the average is 5%). Visas of entry must not be given without thorough checking and taking into consideration Lebanon's security and supreme interests.
Confiscating the Palestinian properties, companies and stock shares in Lebanon as a compensation for the Lebanese losses during the Palestinian wars on them.
BUILDING A MODERN STATE
The task of building a modern state comes right after the liberation of the land and it includes a program with a timetable for all sectors and departments, internal and external, as follows:
Internal Affairs
- Declaring that Lebanon is Lebanese without any other quality whether it is Arabic or non-Arabic.
- Declare Lebanon a secular country, eliminate sectarianism and open the door for all the qualified Lebanese to be part of government regardless of religion and sect.
- Build a strong army with a firm Lebanese national doctrine.
- Exclude all the traditional politicians from government and form a special juridical panel to try them with the charge of destroying the country.
- A massive discharge of all the government employees who lived on bribery and corruption and open the door for new and specialized personnel.
- Ban all political parties that imported their ideologies and political programs from outside Lebanon.
- Abolish the law that entitles foreigners to buy and own land or property in Lebanon and produce a new decree that allows the government to retake the properties that were previously sold to foreigners.
- Abolish the normalization law. The honor of the Lebanese nationality must only be given to the distinct and those who served Lebanon well.
- Solve the case of the Lebanese newspaper's submission to foreign financing (almost all the papers were pro-Palestinian during the war).
- Purify the juridical body and make it a truly independent authority. All Lebanese must be equal in front of the law.
- Release a new electoral law that reflects the ambitions of the Lebanese and that opens the door for a wide participation in the electoral process.
- Demolish all shanty towns that surrounds the capital Beirut or the other big cities and ensure descent housing for those who receive minimum wages.
- Develop a new agricultural policy in the countryside.
- Lighten the taxes on newly built factories provided that these factories are in rural areas as a procedure to decrease pollution in the cities and resolve the problem of population density in them.
- Encourage the light industries at the level of the individuals and the families in order to raise the per capita income of the Lebanese individuals.
- Plan a new tourist policy that would promote the cultural value of Lebanon through the ages.
- Ensure free education for all Lebanese and place all state hospitals under the supervision of the medical school at the Lebanese University.
- Fight unemployment through cutting down the number of foreign hand in Lebanon.
- Education should be free of charge for all the Lebanese from the elementary school up till the university and the Lebanese University must have branches in directorates.
- Education must also be compulsory up till high school and those who fail must be fined.
- Start an intensive program to eradicate illiteracy.
- Replace the old educational curriculums (schools and universities) with new and developed ones.
- Declare the Lebanese language as the official language of Lebanon.
- Substitute the Arabic alphabet with the alphabet devised by the Lebanese philosopher Said Akl, who restored the letter to its Phoenician origins after liberating it from the defacement that was caused by the Arabic language. The Arabic language became very old and it does not respond to the rapid development in our age because it is abnormal to think in one language and write in another one. It is worthy to note that we have a superior command of the Arabic language and our decision to abandon it does not stem from an ignorance complex.
- Finance the establishment of research centers in Lebanon to attract Lebanese intellectual brains both inside and outside Lebanon.
- Organize and link the 12 million Lebanese expatriates to their homeland.
Foreign Affairs
- Build normal relations with the international community and with neighboring countries that are firmly established on mutual respect and based on the Lebanese supreme interests. Reject any distinctive relationship under the slogans of fraternity or else that were used by the traditional politicians as a cover-up for their cowardice.
- Sign a comprehensive peace treaty with the state of Israel. Lebanon has no interest in the hostilities with Israel, on the contrary, the relationship between the two was based on friendship and cooperation.
- Withdraw Lebanon from the Arab League to eliminate the quality that designates Lebanon as an Arab country.
The party calls for an alliance between all the people of the Mediterranean sea (MPA, Mediterranean People Alliance). It is normal for the Lebanese to look to the sea when seeking alliances because historically speaking, the sea was the playground of the Phoenicians and on its beaches they spread their culture.