Did Abdallah Bou Habib promise champagne if the country is ‘rid’ of Hezbollah?

Did the outgoing Lebanese Foreign Minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, really promise to offer champagne if the country were "rid of" Hezbollah? These remarks were indeed made by the Lebanese chief diplomat, implicitly confirmed by a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to L'Orient-Le Jour, but they date back to 2021 and were reportedly "cut and edited.""How do you want us to get rid of Hezbollah? If you send 100,000 Marines, get rid of Hezbollah, and want to celebrate that, the champagne will be on us," the minister can be heard saying, amid laughter from the audience, in an 18-second recording that was shared on social media Thursday. The recording is titled: "Yes, it’s the Aounist foreign minister," referring to Abdallah Bou Habib's affiliation with the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), a former ally of...