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2024-12-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Ceasefire in Lebanon Is Stopgap Until Trump Takes Over, Israelis Say
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[WashingtonFreeBeacon] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant ....
and his senior aides are hailing a ceasefire they brokered in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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...
last week as a potential breakthrough for Middle East peace. But Israeli leaders see the truce as a way to get through the final days of Biden's presidency so Israel can finish the war with its genocidal enemies.
In the Rose Garden on Tuesday, Biden announced the 60-day ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. He said the deal, which went into effect early Wednesday and has so far held, "heralds a new start for Lebanon" and "brings us closer to realizing the affirmative agenda that I’ve been pushing forward during my entire presidency: a vision for the future of the Middle East where it’s at peace and prosperous and integrated across borders."
"I believe this agenda remains possible," Biden continued, vowing to use the final 54 days of his presidency to try to end Israel’s war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, normalize Israel-Saudi relations, and secure a "credible pathway for a Paleostinian state."
According to current and former Israeli officials, however, Israel's government agreed to the ceasefire largely to appease and move on from the Biden administration. President-elect Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
will be back in the White House when the 60-day deadline for troop withdrawals comes around, and they expect he will support a strong response to any violation of the deal as well as Israeli action against Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Hamas
 ..always the voice of sweet reason...
, a Hezbollah ally and fellow Iran-backed terrorist group.
"It’s not for no reason that we insisted on 60 days," Ohad Tal, a member of Israel’s parliamentary defense committee from the governing Religious Zionism party, told the Washington Free Beacon.
The ceasefire agreement provides "zero" security benefits to Israel in Lebanon, Tal said, noting that the Lebanese Army and international peacekeepers have abjectly failed to enforce Resolution 1701 for the past 18 years. He said pressure from the Biden administration was the "main reason" Israeli leaders nonetheless got behind the deal.
"It’s a bad deal," Tal said. "But it’s a bad deal that we had to sign under the circumstances, and that had everything to do with the current administration in America."
Hours before Biden trumpeted the ceasefire agreement at the White House, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the deal as something like a tactical pause in Israel’s nearly 14-month war with the Iranian axis, which seeks Israel's destruction. He said the deal would allow the military to rest, rearm, and "focus on the Iranian threat" and "our sacred mission" to bring home the 101 hostages still held hostage in Gaza. He emphasized that his government would not hesitate to "renew the war," as it did following the ceasefire with Hamas last November.
"The length of the ceasefire depends on what happens in Lebanon. If Hezbollah violates the agreement and tries to arm itself, we will attack," Netanyahu said. "Believe in our determination, believe in our path, in our commitment to victory."
Netanyahu also suggested that the Biden administration had put pressure on Israel to agree to the ceasefire by withholding weapons shipments.
"I say it openly, it is no secret that there have been big delays in weapons and munitions deliveries," he said, echoing explicit criticisms he made of the administration in a speech to politicians last month. "These delays will be resolved soon. We will receive supplies of advanced weaponry that will keep our soldiers safe and give us more strike force to complete our mission."
Two current and three former Israeli officials confirmed to the Free Beacon Hebrew media reports that the Biden administration has slowed wartime weapons deliveries to Israel, including a recent hold up of 139 armored bulldozers on which soldiers rely to clear explosives and terrorist hideouts in Lebanon and Gaza.
After the start of the ceasefire on Wednesday, the Biden administration leaked that it was advancing a $680 million weapons package to Israel. U.S. officials anonymously said the development was unconnected to the Israeli government's cooperation with the truce. The administration has long denied withholding weapons from Israel, aside from one shipment of 2,000 pound bombs that Biden has publicly suspended since March.
Yes, but we know they lie. See, for instance, Hunter Biden. Another a factor in Israeli leaders' approval of the ceasefire agreement were concerns that the Biden administration would otherwise facilitate a U.N. Security Council resolution harmful to Israel, according to the current and former officials. Tal said the Israeli government learned "that the State Department was already working to arrange a resolution against Israel in the Security Council."
Israel’s Channel 14 news reported late last month that Netanyahu privately told critics of the then-emerging ceasefire agreement that it was better to "postpone the end" of the war by two months as part of the deal than to have the Security Council force an end to the fighting, which he said was a "real danger."
Amir Avivi, a former senior Israeli military official who has advised Netanyahu during the war, told the Free Beacon that the prime minister feared a repeat of the final weeks of Barack Obama’s presidency, which saw the United States abstain from a U.N. National Security Council resolution that rejected any Israeli presence in the "occupied Palestinian territory" of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
"I heard Netanyahu speak many times about how traumatic and complicated it was to deal with Obama’s decision," Avivi said. "I think one of Netanyahu’s top priorities right now is to make sure the current U.S. administration ends without that kind of drama. So Netanyahu negotiated this temporary ceasefire, and if it works, OK, and if not, then there will be a change of administration, and Israel will be in a position to decide what to do."
Senior Israeli and U.S. officials told reporters in separate briefings last week that the Biden administration did not explicitly threaten to sanction Israel in relation to the ceasefire talks. A State Department spokeswoman dodged the Free Beacon's questions about the subject by email, saying only: "Our goal was to reach an enduring diplomatic resolution that will enable civilians to safely return to their homes on both sides of the Blue Line. We achieved that with the close (and ongoing) communication of our Israeli and Lebanese counterparts."
The Prime Minister's Office and the White House declined to comment.
Under the ceasefire agreement, Israeli troops have 60 days to withdraw from southern Lebanon, where they have been carrying out operations for two months to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure near the border. Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army, with U.S. and French support, must move into the area to enforce U.N. Resolution 1701, which bars Hezbollah from keeping arms and terrorist infrastructure south of the Litani River. The Biden administration separately guaranteed Israel's right to respond to violations of the deal.
Kobi Michael, a former senior Israeli military intelligence official, told the Free Beacon that Israeli leaders approved the ceasefire agreement with the expectation that it will never be fully implemented. He said "the working assumption" in Jerusalem is that Hezbollah will try to rearm, the Lebanese government will fail to prevent the terrorist group from doing so, and Trump will "agree with us that the ceasefire has been violated and we must be free to continue operating in Lebanon."
A senior U.S. official told reporters on Tuesday that Netanyahu initiated the successful final push for a ceasefire in Lebanon as a "gift" to Trump, confirming a report last month by the Washington Post. But the current and former Israeli officials downplayed claims that Netanyahu feels pressure to end the war before Trump takes office on Jan. 20. They agreed that the government’s approval of the truce is better understood as part of an Israeli effort to set the stage for an airstrike on Iran's nuclear weapons program, with U.S. backing or ideally participation.
According to Avivi, Israel has mostly disabled Iran's "proxies and air defenses" and has lately ramped up domestic weapons production and other preparations for such a strike.
"Israel’s challenge is to convince President Trump that we are handing him Iran on a silver platter," Avivi said, before directly addressing the incoming Trump administration. "All the hard work is done. Just bring the strategic bombers, and let’s get it over with. It’s one airstrike." 
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