The Guardians of the Cedars.

Abu Arz believes in the Lebanon that rests upon knowledge, strength, ambition and vigor, and also in the Lebanese nation that occupies at least the whole of the 10,452 km2 not excluding an inch, and on all the Lebanese people not excluding a person.

He also believes in a Lebanese Lebanon, and the Lebanese nationality free of any alien attribute that adulterates this nationality. He even said in one of the slogans he launched: The curse of history will fall upon whoever will dare to falsify the Lebanese identity. He fiercely fought every attempt at drowning Lebanon in the quagmire of the so-called Arab World. On the contrary he called for, and still does, to withdraw Lebanon from the Arab League that has brought it nothing but calamities and disaster since its foundation.

He also believes in rejecting any alliance schemes with Syria in consideration of the historical danger it represents to Lebanon... On the contrary, he called for opening up relations with the nations of the Mediterranean zone leading to a political and cultural alliance with them, because this constitutes a natural and historical field for Lebanon. He officially appealed for such an alliance in the Sixth Annual Conference of the Party, calling it MEDITERRANEAN PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE.

On the military level, the Party joined every coalition aimed at fighting the Syrian and Palestinian enemies and their stooges. He instilled in it noble behavior and the rejection of all the villainous activities that were common at the time, such as looting, physical liquidation, sectarian assassination, drug addiction, etc. The Party remained exemplary in its behavior and the dignity of the weapons it carried... This was due to Abu Arz's constant instructions to the combatants and the close surveillance of their activity, employing the principle of reward and punishment which he instilled.

Nevertheless, Abu Arz adamantly refused to be implicated in internal strife, either on the Maronite-Maronite or on the sectarian levels.

In February 1990, the Lebanese Forces, then under the command of Samir Geagea occupied the Headquarters of the Guardians of the Cedars and placed Abu Arz under house arrest for several weeks, after which he left the Eastern Zone to go to Cyprus, and thence to Israel and settle finally in the Border Zone, more precisely in the Jezzine region, in order to pursue his military and political struggle against Syrian occupation and that of its allies - the fanatical and terrorist organizations.

Abu Arz could have emigrated at that time to France or elsewhere as did the other banished leaders, but he preferred to remain on Lebanese soil, close to his fellow combatants and carry on his campaign to the end.

Abu Arz resided in the South for about ten years, where he was effective in preventing the Jezzine region and the Border zone from falling under the occupation of Syria and its stooges.

However, fate and circumstances beyond his power forced him to leave in May 2000 and go to Israel...

Thus, Abu Arz, the first to carry arms in 1975, was the last to lay them down in 2000 in contrast with the other leaders who participated in this long war.