جريدة الراية: حقيقة الأزمة  في لبنان
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جريدة الراية: حقيقة الأزمة في لبنان

Al Raya sahafa

2022-01-19

جريدة الراية: حقيقة الأزمة

في لبنان

واصل سعر صرف الدولار صعوده بداية الأسبوع الماضي ليصل إلى ما دون 34 ألف ليرة ولتسجل بالتالي الليرة اللبنانية خسارة تتعدى 95% من قيمتها منذ بداية الأزمة أواخر سنة 2019.

هذا وفي ظل تراجع الخدمات التي تقدمها الدولة في قطاعات الطاقة والمياه والاتصالات والتعليم والاستشفاء وفي ظل شلل في عمل الحكومة بسبب مقاطعة وزراء الثنائي الشيعي (حركة أمل، وحزب إيران) المجلس اعتراضا على مجرى تحقيقات انفجار مرفأ بيروت. ومع وصول سعر صفيحة البنزين إلى أكثر من 375 ألف ليرة وصعود أسعار المواد الاستهلاكية، تم الإعلان عن إضراب عام يوم الخميس الماضي وشمل كافة الأراضي اللبنانية والقطاعات العامة والخاصة.

وعقب إعلان الإضراب حصلت تحركات سياسية عدة بدأت بزيارة السفيرة الأمريكية لرئيس مجلس النواب ورئيس حركة أمل نبيه بري، ثم كان الاجتماع المالي بين رئيس الحكومة نجيب ميقاتي ووزير المالية المحسوب على بري يوسف الخليل وحاكم مصرف لبنان رياض سلامة، أعلن عقبه سلامة تعديل تعميم 161 عبر رفع سقف السحوبات.

ويسمح تعميم مصرف لبنان رقم 161 للمودِعين الذين يملكون حسابات بالليرة اللبنانية بسحب ودائعهم ورواتبهم بالدولار الأمريكي وفق سعر منصّة "صيرفة" التابعة لمصرف لبنان. ورفع سقف السحوبات يؤدي بشكل تلقائي بأن تصبح البنوك لاعباً مباشراً في عملية بيع وشراء الدولار حسب سعر المنصة الرسمية والتي كانت قبل الاجتماع المالي أقل من سعر السوق بحوالي 9 آلاف ليرة للدولار حيث كان سعر السوق 33700 وسعر المنصة 24500.

وعقب إعلان تعديل تعميم 161 هبط الدولار هبوطا حادا وصل نهار الأحد إلى ما دون 23 ألف ليرة. فتم استيعاب غضب الناس والحد من امتداد الإضراب العام نهار الخميس وذلك عبر ضخ الدولارات في السوق بشكل تصاعدي وتقليص حجم الأوراق النقدية المتداولة بالعملة المحلية، إذ وصل حجم التداول اليومي عبر منصة "صيرفة" إلى 40 مليون دولار بعد أن كان 17 مليون دولار بداية الأسبوع ذاته.

وبعيد الإضراب العام وهبوط الدولار أعلن الثنائي الشيعي وبشكل مفاجئ في بيان مشترك عن موافقتهما على العودة إلى المشاركة في أعمال مجلس الوزراء من أجل إقرار الموازنة العامة للدولة ومناقشة خطة التعافي الاقتصادي.

وصلت نسبة الفقر في لبنان ليصبح أربعة من كل خمسة من أهل البلد تحت خط الفقر بحسب الأمم المتحدة بسبب التضخم الذي يفوق المئة بالمئة. وبحسب البنك الدولي: "يعيش حوالي 80% من أهل لبنان في فقر بعد أن فقدت الليرة اللبنانية أكثر من 90 بالمائة من قيمتها. وانكمش الاقتصاد اللبناني بنسبة 20,3 بالمائة عام 2020 ونحو 7 بالمائة العام الماضي".

إنَّ أساس المشكلة الاقتصادية في لبنان هو الاعتماد شبه التام على التحويلات، والاستثمارات الخارجية، وعدم تشجيع الدولة للصناعة والزراعة المحلية، وعدم استثمار الثروة الطبيعية من نفط وغاز، إذ كان العجز في الميزان التجاري بداية سنة 2019 حوالي 17 مليار دولار؛ وذلك بسبب مصادرة القرار السياسي الداخلي وجعله كليا بيد أمريكا آخرها هو ملف التنقيب عن النفط إذ بات الأمر بيد أمريكا التي ربطته بملف ترسيم الحدود البحرية مع يهود المغتصبين لأرض فلسطين. إذ قال وزير الطاقة اللبناني وليد فياض: إنًّ شركة توتال الفرنسية تربط التنقيب عن الغاز والنفط في الرقعة البحرية رقم ٩ في المياه الإقليمية بجنوب لبنان بترسيم الحدود البحرية.

وأما في الشق المالي فبعد أن بدأت التحويلات الخارجية في التراجع بداية سنة 2011 وصل العجز في الحساب الجاري الخارجي لدى لبنان إلى 4,7 مليار دولار سنة 2015 وتم إخفاؤه من المصرف المركزي والبنك الدولي عن الناس (حسب وكالة رويترز). وبدل اتخاذ خطوات صحيحة للمحافظة على الاحتياطات المتبقية من العملة الأجنبية أعلن حاكم مصرف لبنان عن خطوات تحفز لإيداع حسابات في العملة الأجنبية مقابل عوائد ربوية مرتفعة وصلت في بعض الأحيان إلى نسبة 20% ومنهم من قال إنها وصلت إلى 25% وهكذا حوّل الكثير من أموالهم في الخارج إلى البنوك اللبنانية المشاركة لما سمي بـ"الهندسات المالية".

وفي سنة 2017 ولأهداف انتخابية أقر مجلس النواب في لبنان قانون سلسلة الرتب والرواتب ما زاد من عملية استنزاف خزينة الدولة وزاد من عجزها. ومع حصول شح مالي في منطقة الخليج وتقليص حجم تدفق الأموال من الخارج إلى لبنان حاول أزلام النظام تمرير قوانين زيادة في الضرائب وكانت تلك المحاولة التي أدت لاحتجاجات سنة 2019، وظهر العجز المالي الذي وصل إليه لبنان حيث تخلف عن سداد ديونه في شهر آذار/مارس سنة 2020.

إن الحلول المبنية على أساس المبدأ الرأسمالي لا تعد حلولا بل هي أشبه بترقيعات مؤقتة ورغم ذلك لم يقم النظام الرسمي في لبنان وأزلامه بتلك الترقيعات، وجل ما يقومون به حتى الآن هو تطبيق توصيات صندوق النقد الدولي من تعويم لليرة اللبنانية ووقف دعم استيراد البضائع من الخارج.

ومنذ سنة تقريبا ولسحب أي فتيل لانفجار داخلي في البلد يقوم المصرف المركزي بعملية ضخ للدولار في السوق أو المصارف بهدف تخفيض سعره وفرملة صعوده. ويخرج السياسيون في لبنان بتصريحات تعتبر توصيات صندوق النقد بمثابة قوانين لا يجوز مخالفتها وأنهم يعتمدون على دعم صندوق النقد وهم حقيقة يرهنون البلد وأهله له. علما أن شطب العوائد الربوية لديون "الهندسات المالية" تعادل أضعاف ما سيعطيه صندوق النقد للبنان.

وأما القرارات الكبرى مثل موضوع النفط والغاز وموضوع الكهرباء فأمريكا هي من تمسك بها ولقد صرحت السفيرة الأمريكية بعيد اجتماعها مع رئيس الحكومة عن تسليمها له كتاباً رسمياً من وزارة الخزانة الأمريكية اتفاقيات الطاقة الإقليمية بين لبنان والأردن ومصر.

هذه هي مشكلة لبنان وما من حلول جذرية على المستوى الداخلي، ولا حلول ترقيعية بيده، بل هي رهن للخارج، وما ساسة لبنان إلا دمى متحركة بيد الخارج يأتي بهم ويعطيهم دورا كما تقتضي مصلحته.

ونعود ونقول: إنَّ القرار الداخلي في لبنان ليس في يد أهله وإنَّ التغيير في لبنان لا يكون عن طريق صندوق انتخابي يمسك به الفاسدون. فمشكلة لبنان هي في أساسها فساد النظام الرأسمالي الربوي، وفساد النظام الطائفي، وفساد ساسة البلد وأحزابه، وصندوق النقد والبنك الدوليين ليسا أقل فسادا وإفسادا من المؤسسات الرسمية في لبنان بل هما أس الفساد وأربابه.

إنَّ أي حل جذري يجب أن يكون مرتبطا بمحيط لبنان، لا سيما المحيط الشامي، أي بلاد الشام خصوصاً، والمحيط الإسلامي عموماً، حينها ينعم لبنان ليس بخيرات لبنان فقط بل بخيرات تأتيه من محيطه وحاضنته بوصفهم أمة واحدة يحكمها إمام واحد في ظل دولة واحدة، وعسى أن يكون قريبا.

بقلم: الأستاذ عبد اللطيف داعوق

 نائب رئيس المكتب الإعلامي لحزب التحرير في ولاية لبنان

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Ar-Raya Newspaper: Ar-Raya Miscellany – Issue 573

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Ar-Raya Newspaper:Ar-Raya Miscellany – Issue 573

O people of Sudan: How long will the conflict in Sudan and elsewhere remain fuel for international ambitions and their struggle with their malicious plans, interventions, and supplying the conflicting parties with weapons to completely control it?! Your women and children have been suffering for more than two years from this bloody conflict that only serves the interests of the West and its allies in controlling the fate of Sudan, which has always been coveted for its location and wealth, so it is in their interest to tear it apart and fragment it. The Rapid Support Forces' seizure of Al-Fashir is just another episode in these plans, as America wants to carve out the Darfur region and concentrate its influence in Sudan and eliminate British influence in it.

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The Goal of Ortagus' Visit

to Lebanon!

In light of the American offensive against Lebanon and the region with the project of normalization and surrender, and the US administration's endeavor under Trump and his team to bring more rulers of Muslim countries into the Abraham Accords, the visit of the American envoy Morgan Ortagus to Lebanon and the usurping Jewish entity comes, loaded with political, security, and economic pressures, threats, and conditions on Lebanon, noting that this visit coincided with the visit of the Secretary-General of the Arab League and the Director of Egyptian Intelligence, apparently to serve the same direction.

In response to these visits, a media statement from the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Lebanon affirmed the following:

First: The interventions of America and its followers in Muslim countries are to serve the interests of America and the Jewish entity, not to serve our interests, especially since America is the first supporter of the Jewish entity in politics, economy, finance, weapons, and media, openly and publicly.

Second: The envoy's visit is not a neutral visit, as some may imagine! Rather, it comes in the context of a clear American policy in the region that supports the Jewish entity and contributes to enabling it militarily and politically, and what the American envoy offers is only an imposition of hegemony, a consecration of subservience, and a diminution of sovereignty, which is a form of surrender and submission to the Jews, and this is what God refuses for the people of Islam.

Third: Accepting these dictates and signing any agreements that consecrate foreign tutelage is a betrayal of God, His Messenger, the Ummah, and everyone who fought or sacrificed to remove this usurping entity from Lebanon and Palestine.

Fourth: Dealing with the Jewish entity is a crime in the legal sense for the vast majority of the people of Lebanon, Muslims and non-Muslims, even in the positive law to which the Lebanese authority resorts, or human law in general, especially after the criminal entity committed genocide in Gaza, which it has not and will not hesitate to do in Lebanon and other Muslim countries.

Fifth: The American campaign and offensive on the region will not pass, and America will not succeed in its endeavor to shape the region as it desires, and if it has its project for the region, which is based on colonialism, plundering peoples, misleading Muslims, and even taking them out of their religion by calling for the (Abrahamic religion), then Muslims, in return, have their project promised by God Almighty; the project of the Second Khilafah according to the method of Prophethood, which has become very close, God willing, and this project is the one that will redraw the region, and even the entire world, anew, in fulfillment of the saying of the Messenger ﷺ: "Indeed, God showed me the earth, and I saw its east and its west, and my nation will reach what was shown to me of it." Narrated by Muslim, and the Jewish entity will be eliminated as the Messenger of God ﷺ foretold in his hadith: "The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them..." Agreed upon.

In conclusion, Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Lebanon continues to adopt the task of repelling America's campaign and offensive of normalization and surrender on Lebanon and the region, and nothing will deter it from doing so, and we warn the Lebanese authority against following the path of normalization and surrender! And we call on it to seek refuge in its people to confront that, and not to play around with the matter under the pretext of borders or reconstruction and the influence of the international system, ﴿And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most people do not know.﴾.

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A Delegation from Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan

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A delegation from Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan, on Monday, November 3, 2025, visited a number of dignitaries from the city of Al-Ubayyid, the capital of North Kordofan. The delegation was led by Professor Al-Nazeer Muhammad Hussein Abu Minhaj, a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Council in Wilayah Sudan, accompanied by Engineer Banqa Hamid and Professor Muhammad Saeed Boukeh, members of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The delegation met with:

Professor Khalid Hussein - Head of the Democratic Unionist Party, Jalaa Al-Azhari wing.

Dr. Abdullah Youssef Abu Seil - Lawyer and Professor of Law at universities.

Sheikh Abdul Rahim Jouda - From the Ansar al-Sunna group.

Mr. Ahmed Muhammad - Suna News Agency correspondent.

The meetings touched on the topic of the hour; the fall of Al-Fashir and the accompanying crimes of the militia against the people of the city, and the betrayal of the army leaders, who did not fulfill their duty towards the people of Al-Fashir and lift the siege on them, while they were capable of doing so throughout the period of the siege, and the repeated attacks on them, more than 266 attacks.

Then the delegation handed them a copy of the publication of Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan entitled: "The fall of Al-Fashir opens the way for America's plan to carve out the Darfur region and concentrate its influence in Sudan. How long will we be fuel for the international conflict?!" Their reactions were excellent and they called for the continuation of these meetings.

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"Phoenix Express 2025" Exercises

A Chapter in Tunisia's Submission to American Hegemony

Tunisia's preparation to host the new version of the multilateral naval exercise "Phoenix Express 2025" during the month of November comes, which is the exercise that the US Africa Command has become organizing annually after the regime in Tunisia involved the country by signing with America, on 2020/09/30, a military cooperation agreement, which US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper described as a roadmap that lasts for ten years.

In this regard, a press statement by Hizb ut-Tahrir / Wilayah Tunisia reminded that the party clarified when this dangerous agreement was signed that the matter goes beyond traditional agreements, as America is drawing up a huge project that requires 10 full years to complete, and that the roadmap, according to America's claim, is related to border control, port protection, combating extremist ideology, and confronting Russia and China, and this means, with all impudence, a diminution of Tunisia's sovereignty, but rather it is direct tutelage over our country.

The statement affirmed that Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Tunisia, despite the harassment, arrests, and military trials that our youth are subjected to as a result of their speaking out with the word of truth, reaffirms its call to dissolve this ominous colonial agreement that is intended to drag the country and the entire Islamic Maghreb and adapt them to the malicious American policies, and also repeated its appeal to the people of power and strength in Tunisia and all Muslim countries to pay attention to what the enemies of the Ummah are plotting against them and luring them to, and that the Shariah duty requires them to support their religion and repel the enemy lurking in their countries and their Ummah, and to exalt the word of God by supporting those who work to implement His Shariah and establish His state, the Second Khilafah Rashidah according to the method of Prophethood promised soon, God willing.

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America's Disdain for Its Citizens

Leaves Women and Children Hungry

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a federal program that helps low-income individuals and families and people with disabilities obtain electronic benefits that are used to purchase food and beverages, except for alcohol, and plants to grow their own food. Reports indicate that 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families. 54% of adults who receive food assistance are women, most of whom are single mothers, and 39% are children, meaning that nearly one in five children relies on these benefits to ensure they don't go hungry. The federal shutdown also forced some states to find other ways to fund free and reduced-price food programs in their educational areas, so that children who rely on food during the school day would not have to live without food. As a result, the many food banks spread throughout the country post pictures of empty shelves and ask people to donate food and grocery store gift cards to meet the increasing demand for food.

Accordingly, the Women's Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir said in a press statement: We may ask how can the richest country in the world ignore the fact that millions of its most vulnerable citizens will not find enough food? You may wonder where America spends its money, even during the shutdown? Well, instead of ensuring that Americans get enough food, they send billions of dollars to the Jewish entity to kill Palestinians. He is a ruler who sees building a luxurious celebration hall as more important than anything else, while other deputies find that their personal investments are given priority over the well-being of the people they are supposed to represent! As you can see, capitalist America has never been interested in caring for the affairs of its citizens, but was only interested in providing military and financial support to those who deprive children around the world of their right to security, food, shelter, and education, which are basic necessities. Therefore, it leaves children in America also suffering from hunger and insecurity, and lacking adequate education and health care.

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"Every Muslim is inviolable to another Muslim: his blood, his wealth, and his honor."

To every Muslim, to every officer, soldier, and policeman, to everyone who owns a weapon: God Almighty has granted us reason to think with, and obligated us to use it correctly, so one should not act, perform any action, or utter any statement before knowing its Shariah ruling. Knowing the Shariah ruling requires understanding the reality to which the Shariah ruling is to be applied, so the Muslim must enjoy political awareness, so that he perceives matters as they really are, and is not carried away by the plans of the colonizing disbelievers who do not want good for us or for Islam, and who strive with all their might, cunning, and ingenuity to tear us apart, control our countries, and plunder our capabilities and wealth. How can a Muslim accept to be a tool in the hands of those colonizing disbelievers, or an executor of the orders of their agents?! Does he covet a little of the fleeting pleasures of this world, so he loses his Hereafter and is among the people of the Fire, abiding therein forever, cursed and expelled from the mercy of God? Does a Muslim accept to please any of the created, helpless humans while angering God Almighty, in whose hand is this world and the Hereafter?!

Hizb ut-Tahrir calls you to raise the level of political awareness, adhere to the rulings of God Almighty, and work with it to rule according to what God has revealed, so that it removes the hands of the colonizing disbelievers and their agents from you, and thwarts their plans in our countries.

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You Are the Ones Who Starved the Muslims

O Masoud Pezeshkian!

Under this title, the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir said in a press statement: Iran has announced the bankruptcy of the largest private bank in it, which is (Ayandeh) Bank, and this bank has 270 branches in Iran, after the debts on it increased to five billion dollars. What is surprising in the matter is the criticism of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian for administrative failure, saying: "We have oil and gas, but we are hungry"!

The statement affirmed: The person responsible for that administrative failure that the Iranian president is talking about is the president himself, so why is the Iranian people hungry - O Masoud Pezeshkian - and you have oil, gas, and other wealth and minerals? Is it not a result of your foolish policies? Is it not due to your distance from ruling by Islam? The same can be said about the rest of the Muslim countries. The foolish rulers in them squander the Ummah's huge wealth, enable the colonizing disbelievers to access it, and deprive the Ummah of that wealth, then one of them comes to justify the reason for the hunger by saying that it is an administrative failure!

In conclusion, the press statement addressed the Muslims: The foolishness of these rulers who are in charge of your affairs has become clear to every sighted person, and they are not worthy of taking charge of it. It is time for you to restrain them, for this is the ruling of the fool; preventing him from disposing of money and restraining him, and pledge allegiance to one Khaleefah who rules you with the Shariah of God Almighty, and cancels the riba system in your countries so that your Lord Almighty and His Messenger ﷺ will be pleased with you, and restores your plundered wealth, and restores your dignity and honor. Here is Hizb ut-Tahrir, the pioneer whose people do not lie, calling you to work with it to establish the Second Khilafah Rashidah according to the method of Prophethood.

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To the Sincere Descendants of the Ottoman Heroes

We ask the sincere descendants of the Ottoman heroes: What happened, O great army?! What is this humiliation and weakness?! Is it due to a lack of equipment and supplies?! How can this be, when you are the strongest army in the Middle East? And you rank eighth among the strongest armies in the world, while the Jewish entity ranks eleventh. That is, you are ahead of it in all respects, so how can you accept humiliation?!

The Jihadi army may lose a battle, but it will not lose a war; because the determination that ignited its leaders and soldiers is the same determination that created Badr, Hunayn, and Yarmouk, it is the same determination that opened Andalusia and made Muhammad al-Fatih determined to conquer Constantinople. And it is the same determination that will liberate Al-Aqsa and restore things to their rightful place.

We affirm that the national military doctrine has been lost and not preserved. It is a doctrine of weakness and failure, which diminishes the prestige of the army because it does not open the door to fighting in the way of God. It is a doctrine that made the military a job to receive a salary, so conscription became a heavy burden on the hearts of young people, who avoid it. It is a doctrine that made military ranks for boasting, so the army was emptied of its true meaning.

We in Hizb ut-Tahrir call on our sons in the Turkish army not to continue abandoning Jihad and not to support the Muslims who are crying out for their help; because that is an evil, and what an evil... So do not abandon the pinnacle of this religion until you win in both worlds.

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Trump's Attack on the Democrats

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Ar-Raya: Since Donald Trump's rise to the American political scene, the world has witnessed a wide debate about the nature of his speech and his style in dealing with his political opponents. Between those who see him as a reformer who wants to restore America to its "lost greatness," and those who consider him a direct threat to the values of democracy, the most important question remains: Is Trump's continuous attack on the Democratic Party merely a normal political conflict, or is it in its essence a coup against American democracy itself?

Trump's attack on the Democrats comes as an internal explosion in the heart of the American system, as it exposes the real conflict between the elite class that controls the joints of the state, and the American people who feel that their voice is no longer effective in the political decision.

Trump's attack on the Democrats, although it seems like a rebellion against American political norms, is in fact a mirror that reflects the crisis of Western democracy itself. It is not only a coup against democracy, but an exposure of its falsehood, and that it is a dead person waiting for the Khilafah state to announce its death and bury it soon, God willing. Our responsibility is to be certain that the path to renaissance is not by imitating