The Constitution is the supreme point of reference, and the Taif Agreement is a founding accord that derives its legitimacy from the consensus of the Lebanese

Al Liwaa: Dr. Hussein Mahmoud Rammal* It is no metaphor to say that Lebanon did not emerge from the 1948 catastrophe as it entered it; rather, it entered it as a country and emerged as a laboratory of exception. Between the influx of Palestinian refugees into its south, the 1969 Cairo Agreement, which legalized arms outside the authority of the state, and the 1975 outbreak, which turned…