In brief
Maria Maalouf interviewed activist Mariam Younes on The Capitol Show about Lebanon’s general amnesty law and the file of Lebanese who left southern Lebanon for Israel in 2000.
Younes, who was five years old when her family left Lebanon, rejects the framing of her case as a criminal one, asking: “On what basis would they pardon me? I am not a criminal.”
The conversation covers the right of return after 26 years, the situation of the families and children who left the south, Israeli citizenship, the responsibility of the Lebanese state, the South Lebanon Army file, Hezbollah’s weapons, and the future of peace between Lebanon and Israel. Younes also says what she would tell the Lebanese state if given a single minute, insisting: “Lebanon is still my homeland and of course I want to return.”
The interview is conducted in Arabic.
