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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Al-Rahi: Lebanese can't be forced to bear burdens of others' war
2023-12-04
[An Nahar] Maronite Patriach Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lamented the end of the truce 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 an 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...
, decrying that "the innocent people are bearing the consequences of the destructive war."

"What is the meaning of the humanitarian truce
..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting...
if it will pave the way for a ferocious war after a break," al-Rahi wondered in his Sunday Mass sermon.

"No one in 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...
wants the spread of the war to the South and to our innocent Lebanese residents there. If, God forbid, it spreads to the South, no one would know where it would stop and the magnitude of victims and destruction it would leave, so we pray to God to keep it away from us," the patriarch added.

"No one can force the Lebanese people to bear the burdens of a war in which they have nothing," al-Rahi went on to say.

The patriarch also said that "the failure to elect a president and the closure of the presidential palace are a blatant crime that is destroying state institutions and public administrations while spreading chaos and corruption and tarnishing Lebanon’s civilized face."

Posted by:Fred

#2  It's the peace afterwards that defines the war.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-12-04 06:08  

#1  "What is the meaning of the humanitarian truce if it will pave the way for a ferocious war after a break,"

History teaches us that every war is preceded by peace.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-04 04:17  

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