●Jumblatt and Hariri: "the adventurers" and "monopolising the decision of war"

On 17 and 18 July 2006, with the war in its first week, Saad Hariri told "Okaz" that "the adventurers have put us in an embarrassing position… and we demand that they be held to account", and Walid Jumblatt told Egyptian television "Nasrallah cannot monopolise the decision of war and peace and tell us, as a state and a people, I am here", while Aoun held that "the party is a people, and a people cannot be wiped out"; the first public rift in wartime, which paved the way for the post-war split.