The U.S. special envoy to Lebanon said Monday that his team would discuss the long-term cessation of hostilities with Israel, after Beirut endorsed a U.S.-backed plan for the Hezbollah militant group to disarm.
Tom Barrack, following a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, also said Washington would seek an economic proposal for post-war reconstruction in the country, after months of shuttle diplomacy between the U.S. and Lebanon.
The USA and Israel certainly seem like countries that will keep their word and respect a deal once it is made.
Israel and Lebanon actually signed a diplomatic agreement in 1982.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/18/world/israel-and-lebanon-sign-agreement-at-2-ceremonies.html
As part of the agreement, Israel would withdraw its troops from the country. Lebanon would prevent attacks from southern Lebanon.
The agreement was cancelled after violent riots encouraged by Hafez El Assad.
After decades of brutal wars, Egypt, Jordan and Israel signed peace agreements.
Peace has lasted for 50 years and 30 years. That’s actually a win.
Some idealistic people expect a single deal that will magically fix the following issues:
- Hamas/Israel
- West Bank occupation
- Syria/Israel relations
- Iran/Israel relations
- City of Jerusalem statute
- Lebanon/Israel relations
I hate to say it but the Middle East isn’t a place for idealism.
There is never going to be one agreement that fixes everything.
But removing an issue from that list and having peace would be huge win for Lebanon.
Peace has lasted for 50 years and 30 years
You have a very strange definition of “peace”…
That or you’re just intentionally lying. Israel hasn’t even existed for 80 years.
This seems more like whitewashing an excuse to invade yet another country in the Middle East…
Context: An enemy (unconditionally supported by the US) intent on conquering your country and ethnically cleansing your people should be ‘urged’ to comply with a ceasefire.
It also demands the disarming and dissolution of the only armed force that repelled the invasion and colonial occupation.
Your army is weak, untrained and intentionally defunded. They couldn’t liberate the occupied land after decades of Zionist occupation. The people themselves took up arms and liberated themselves after being ignored by your government.
Would you naively disarm the people and just “trust me bro”?
This is capitulation. It’s not going to happen.
How do you explain Israel retreating back to their border after forcing Hezbollah to stop their attacks?
That doesn´t seem to jive with your claim that they are somehow intent on conquering Lebanon
Zionists continue to occupy several hilltops in southern Lebanon. They also continue to violate the ceasefire by bombing Lebanese territory and murdering civilians.
This is leaving aside the decades long occupation of southern Lebanon by Israel in the 80s and 90s, which was also widely condemned, but ignored by the occupiers.
But please, tell me how capitulation and nonviolence ever solved anything.
They are acting agressively to make sure Hezbollah keeps to their part of the peace deal. But how does that fit into your story of them wanting to conquer tje whole of Lebanon?
As for your question: Jordan and Egypt chose nonviolence 50 years ago and that solved a lot of things.
Zionists invaded and occupied Lebanon in the 80s and 90s and began colonization efforts.
Even today, you have Ashkenazi supremacists inventing neo-Hebrew names for towns and villages in Lebanon under the pretext of some mythical ancient past.
https://jewishcurrents.org/inside-the-movement-to-settle-southern-lebanon-uri-tzafon-israel
The Zionists are the aggressors. Always have been. There’s no compromising with people whose goal is to steal your land.
Israel invaded Lebanon because the PLO were launching attacks from there, with the goal of establishing a Maronite buffer state. If you´ve really been led to believe that they “began colonization efforts” then you need to read up on the history of the conflict.
A handful of religious goofs throwing model airplanes over the border does not constitute an invasion or conquest.
Legitimate armed resistance is the right of every occupied and colonized people.
What do you expect when you have a European settler colony invading and occupying your land?
Remember, it was the Ashkenazi colonial project that usurped the religious elements, not the other way around. They were, for the most part, atheists after all.
It’s the settler colonial Ashkenazi supremacist Zionists who are the aggressors.
I think you´ve strayed far and wide from your original claim that Lebanon is on the brink of being conquered by Israel and the only thing keeping them from acting on it is, apparently, Hezbollah being allowed to fire a rocket or mortar across the border every once in a while
The people themselves took up arms and liberated themselves
With all due respect, what you are spewing here is complete non-sense.
1. Hezbollah is not ‘‘the people’’. They have killed countless Lebanese journalists and critics. The judge who is investigating the Beirut Port explosion received death threats from Hezbollah.
2. The Syrian occupation of Lebanon lasted longer than the Israeli occupation. Hezbollah publically praised the Syrian military.
The Lebanese Civil War ended in 1990 with the Taief Agreement. 70% of Lebanon was occupied by the Syrian Army. The Syrian Military occupied Beirut, Sidon, Tripoli and all major lebanese cities. The Israelis occupied 7 kilometers in the south, mainly shia villages.
Hezbollah fought the Israelis to free some tiny shia villages. However, they actively collaborated with the Syrian military. The Israelis fully withdrew in 2000. The Syrians announced they will not withdraw. Hezbollah was fine with that. Why ? Because Syria was allied with Iran.
In 2006, Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who publically called for Syrian troops to withdraw was assassinated. Rafik Hariri was widely respected and he played a key role in the reconstruction of Lebanon. There is overwhelming evidence that Syria and Hezbollah were behind it.
The United Nations voted to create a Special Tribunal to investigate Hariri’s assassination .
When the prosecutors issue arrest warrants for Hezbollah commanders linked to the murder of Rafik Hariri, the boss of Hezbollah announced that he will ‘cut the hands’ of anyone trying to arrest them:
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/mena/hizbollah-brings-down-lebanon-s-government-1.381497
The week army will disarm hiznollah? The worse scenario is a civil war caused by that useless army
The US is going to make this so much worse. Just let isreal and the countries involved negotiate it.
