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Israel will begin negotiations with Lebanon “as soon as possible,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on April 9.
“In light of Lebanon’s repeated appeals to open direct negotiations with Israel,” Netanyahu said in a statement, “I instructed the cabinet yesterday to begin direct negotiations with Lebanon as soon as possible.”
The upcoming talks “will focus on disarming Hezbollah and establishing peaceful relations between Israel and Lebanon,” according to the primer, who added that Israel “appreciates the call made today by Lebanon’s prime minister to demilitarize Beirut.”
The call came after United States President Donald Trump reportedly asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a day earlier to scale back Israeli strikes on Lebanon to prevent the collapse of the fragile ceasefire with Iran.
More than 300 people were reportedly killed in a large series of Israeli strikes on Lebanon that began hours into the ceasefire. Israel and the U.S. claimed that Lebanon is not covered by the agreement with Iran, while Tehran and Pakistani mediators have insisted otherwise.
Trump made the request during a phone call shortly after Netanyahu publicly vowed to continue striking Lebanon, NBC News reported, citing a senior U.S. official.
Separately, Reuters reported that Lebanon spent the last 24 hours advocating for a temporary ceasefire to allow for broader talks with Israel.
A senior Lebanese official told the news agency that a “separate track but the same model” as a ceasefire brokered by Pakistan between the U.S. and Iran. The official said that no date or location has been set yet but Lebanon needs the U.S. as a mediator and guarantor of any agreement.
Axios reported, however, that the first meeting will take place next week in Washington, DC, at the State Department. According to the news website, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa will lead the American delegation, while Lebanon’s Ambassador to Washington Nada Hamadeh-Moawad will lead the Lebanese side.
Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter will lead the Israeli delegation, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel. The news outlet reported, citing another Israeli official, that there will be no ceasefire with Hezbollah ahead of the upcoming talks with Lebanon.
Despite the ongoing preparations for peace talks, Israel launched more strikes against Lebanon on April 9, and even expanded its ground operations in the south of the country, storming the strategic town of Bint Jbeil, where a fierce battle is now taking place.
Hezbollah, which adhered to the ceasefire at first, responded by launching dozens of rockets at northern Israel, reaching as far as the city of Nahraia.
All in all, the situation in Lebanon remains very tense. Israel will likely escalate even further against Hezbollah as a way to sabotage the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Any talks with Lebanon will not likely produce anything meaningful, as Hezbollah is not a party to the process.
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there is no reason to surrender to someone who repeatedly has men women and children martyred during cease fires. the only way out is alas to fight. no deal can be made with someone whose purpose is your destruction. the ‘greater israel’ project does not want to leave anything for anyone who lives in this part of the world (the levant) and possibly even beyond.
yes the moment hezbollah disarms israel moves in and steals and occupies all the land commits the same kind of geno cide they commited in gaza. if anything hezbollah is defending the people of lebanon from jewish colonialism.
all roads lead to lebanon being replaced by greater israel!
at the moment the road leads to “bibi was replaced by ai”. until proven otherwise.
i will take a drive up your daughter’s back-road…
you bitch ass punk better shut the fuck up.
israel could defeat pathetic bosnia with one of its boogers!
we can defeat all israelis, turn tnem to slaves and fuck all those idf kunts and gift them with soma kock milkkk. hehheee
the vile satanic epstein joo filth are digging their own grave. more power to their elbow.
i’m curious about this “greater israel” i’ve been hearing about. where is it? it looks like israels borders are where they were a few years ago, held off by hezbollah anti-tank missiles and determination.
i went to americunt dystopia where americunts swallow jew jizz while mulattos pump jizz in hebrew anuz
all those roads lead to a dead end before the joo’s do a 180 as they did in 2000. hehehe
beware of men with doilies on their heads who promote religious extremism. especially when they pretend to want peace and “talk”.
if hezbollah are disarmed, it will be end of lebanon and a warm genocidal welcome to the ‘greater isreal’. even if an agreement could be brokered, the isreali apartheid regime would break it soon after. lebanon and iran should put this regime down for good.
oh oh! pakistani defense minister khawaja asif: israel is evil and a curse for humanity, while peace talks are underway in islamabad, genocide is being committed in lebanon. innocent citizens are being killed by israel, first gaza, then iran and now lebanon, bloodletting continues unabated. nni hope and pray people who created this cancerous state on palestinian land to get rid of european yews burn in hell
the question is how come benjamin mileikowsky netayahu no longer showed his face in media since march 9?
there is no difference if we see him or not. the world will be thankful when he is gone. if you see him in the afterlife remember to use your best punch when you finally get to the front of the line to do it
netanyahu has no desire but destroy and control all peaceful peoples. fulfilling this is his globalist supported task.
racist ideals always used to destroy religions and happiness for empires will
so basically netanyahu is saying disarm hezbollah or he’ll keep attacking lebanese civilians. state terrorism.
disarm the only resistance to zionist invaders, well that makes sense, any lebanese official who goes along with that is a traitor, it’s like asking the french to disarm the french resistance and we know how those bastards ended up.
hezbollah seem to be the only one’s fighting as the lebanese army can’t be bothered to fight for their own country or defend its people. perhaps when the iranian admin seriously begin to take out isreali officials they may get a second wind.
natayahu mileikoski wnts syria,iraq,iran,lebnon,paaalistine ndd yemeni to be disarmed so that he can kill and control like he wants alone.therefore he wants to split iran from friends.lwys kills after agrements are reached its the tactic trump knows it also
the rulers of israel and setlars are not the original israaelis but zionist amkites shem ofsprings.blood line of hitler and cain
the whole lot are garbage and should be quarantined for the sake of everyone else.
lebanon was a relatively prosperous christian country before the jews drove the muslims out of palestine and shoved them into the doltish passive lebanese.
no barnyard animal sacrifice if too great when its for the big nose bosses.
the lebanese puppet government will do what israel wants.
they are zionist goverment of lebanon.
along with most arab countries who surrendered their cowardly arses to isreal a country of less than ten million people, countries like egypt are the worst a once proud arab country reduced to big girls blouses.
the mummy’s boys in the idf are no match for the men in hezbollah which is why the idf is are getting their ass’s kicked. hehehe
declare trump as pope. declare killer fauci as saint. put new shoes onto a dolphin. same outlook for success