Major Abbas Ibrahim believes that the security of the south and the route to it are under threat from gangs that attack the safety of people in the Ain al-Hilweh camp and its surroundings. He added, "This is to undermine the largest gathering outside the homeland. The assault on Palestinians today or anywhere else serves the very projects of Israel that struggle to confront in Gaza and the West Bank. They have come here seeking their target by attacking the cornerstone of this people's strength, which is its unity. So beware of what is being planned for the camp and perhaps for every subsequent Palestinian gathering."
Ibrahim's remarks came during a recognition dinner hosted in his honor by Haj Jihad al-Haj Ali in the town of Kotheriat al-Sayyad, attended by local dignitaries. He pointed out that "what increases our pain today is the presidential vacancy that should be filled today before tomorrow, with a comprehensive president capable of communicating with everyone, who has no concern but for the establishment of institutions and the state, and for gathering all elements of strength for a nation that has reached a state of fragility. A president who guarantees everyone for a stronger nation, and reassures the resistance, which is the strength of Lebanon and not for a specific sect or group. A president who restores trust in Lebanon for its citizens, both residents and expatriates, who have been and continue to be willing to sacrifice whenever they are assured of the strength and immunity of their state and its righteousness."
He emphasized that "the available solution is guaranteed to yield results, which is the Taif Agreement and the constitution. Anything else is uncalculated adventures." He asked, "Wasn't the Taif Agreement, later termed the National Accord Document, the result of dialogue among the Lebanese?"
Major Ibrahim viewed the call for dialogue "accepted by the Lebanese as a method, not merely an invitation to facilitate understanding on the implementation of the constitutional texts and to prepare the conditions for that, not to diverge from it at all." He addressed the people of the south, saying: "It is not permissible to doubt your patriotism. You have fought the fiercest armies in defense of a homeland you believed in, and being in the south today, the surroundings from Sidon to the border with Palestine bear witness to what you have given and what you have faced for this homeland. As for doubts about your Arab identity by merchants of seasonal Arabism, we will not respond to them, and history is the witness here, not far for those with memory of what happened in Kfar falous."
He concluded his remarks by stating: "The inability to provide political solutions does not justify threats and bravado, for its path is closed and will only lead to strife and moving fires. Here, the word solves crises, because the conditions of the word are reason and dialogue, and whoever tries the tried will ruin his mind."
