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2023-11-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Contacts intensify with Lebanon in bid to contain border tensions

“Please don’t hurt us, O IDF.”

[An Nahar] Western and non-Arab nations intensified their contacts over the past hours with Lebanese officials in a bid to contain the tensions on the southern front with Israel and avoid descent into a bigger confrontation, media reports said.

"These contacts expressed desire to preserve security and stability in Leb
Leb

...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, especially on the southern front, and carried a renewed U.S. assurance that Israel does not intend to engage in a confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon," al-Joumhouria newspaper reported.

Lebanese officials said that "Lebanon has been and is still in a position of self-defense in the face of the continuous Israeli attacks," the daily said.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein meanwhile held phone talks with several Lebanese officials in the wake of Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
’s speech on Friday, the newspaper added.

Posted by Fred 2023-11-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top
File under: Hezbollah

#1 The Hezbies lost a shit ton of weapons grade fertilizer when their stash exploded and took out half of Beirut a couple of years or so ago. They're not into taking on a real country with an army like Israel's.

Posted by jpal 2023-11-08 17:31|| 2023-11-08 17:31|| Front Page Top

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