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.
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