Lebanese clergy calls for commitment to national interests

Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Shiite Higher Council in Lebanon, Sheikh Abdul-Amir Qabalan has called the Lebanese to be committed to the national principles which are based on cooperation, solidarity, consultations and bearing in mind that the national interests come first.

On the occasion of Christmas and new year celebrations, Sheikh Qabalan called for breaking away from "nervous political jargons that do harm to the citizen and the homeland." He stressed the necessity for cooperation to liberate the occupied Arab territories in Palestine, Syria and Iraq and to complete the liberation of the remaining Lebanese Shebaa Farms in addition to freeing the captives in the Israeli Jails.