Lebanese MP Samy Gemayel, leader of the Lebanese Kataeb Party said that the time has come to realize that Hizbullah is an “Islamic republic” with foreign funding, weapons, and ideology and that it is “trying to get its hands on the pluralistic Lebanese Republic,” in a February 3, 2023 address during the party’s 32nd general assembly that was posted on Kataeb News on YouTube. He said that Hizbullah is “trying to kill the spirit of the Lebanese Republic,” and that Lebanon has moved from a culture of life, love, and openness to a culture of death, martyrdom, and wars. Gemayel said that if a “divorce” with Hizbullah is necessary, that is what should be done, and he added: “We will not live in Lebanon like second-degree citizens.” He explained that he was not speaking only as a Christian, but as a Lebanese citizen. Samy Gemayel, is the nephew of Bachir Gemayel, a Lebanese President-elect who was assassinated by a Syrian terrorist in 1982.