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2025-01-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Lebanon’s president: IDF must withdraw by Jan. 26, end ‘continued violations’ of truce
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| As long as Hezbollah and the Lebanese army do as committed to in the ceasefire agreement, Israel will withdraw. If they do not, Israel will not. See how simple that is? |
[IsraelTimes] UN chief meets newly-elected Joseph Aoun in Beirut, hails ‘new chapter of peace’; Hezbollah chief urges government to confront Israel over ‘more than hundreds’ of violations
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...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?...
’s new president Joseph Aoun said Saturday that Israel must "withdraw from occupied territories" in his country’s south by the January 26 deadline set in the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire agreement.
In a speech before visiting United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Chief António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
, Aoun also decried "Israel’s continued violations" of the agreement.
"Blowing up homes and destroying border villages, completely contradicts what was stated in the ceasefire agreement," he said, according to the Lebanese president’s office.
His remarks followed a speech by Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
who urged Beirut to confront Israel over "more than hundreds" of violations.
Despite the ceasefire, which was signed November 27 after 14 months of war, Israel has continued striking south Lebanon, saying the attacks targeted Hezbollah fighters and weaponry violating the accord, including by continuing to operate south of the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the border with Israel.
The agreement gives Israel the right to operate against imminent threats. Israel has also accused the Lebanese military and UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL of failing to enforce the agreement in the face of Hezbollah violations.
The ceasefire gave Israel 60 days, until January 26, to withdraw from south Lebanon. After that, the Lebanese Armed Forces and UNIFIL will be the only armed forces permitted to maintain a presence between Israel and the Litani.
However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
there have been some reports in Israel that this deadline could be delayed, ostensibly due to the Lebanese military’s failure to deploy throughout the region quickly enough.
Aoun, elected January 9, has pledged to give the Lebanese state a monopoly on the right to bear arms — a veiled threat against Iran-backed Hezbollah, the only Lebanese militia that did not surrender its arms to the state after the 1975-1990 civil war.
A former head of the army, Aoun clinched the presidency with the backing of Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, the United States and La Belle France, which figures heavily in the politics of its former protectorate Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH CHIEF SEEKS CONFRONTATION
On Saturday, Qassem called "on the Lebanese state to be firm in confronting violations, now numbering more than hundreds. This cannot continue."
"We have been patient with the violations to give a chance to the Lebanese state, responsible for this agreement, along with the international sponsors, but I call on you not to test our patience," he said in a televised speech.
Qassem’s speech came as Guterres met top Lebanese officials, including Aoun and his designated prime minister, outgoing International Court of Justice chief Nawaf Salam.
Analysts say Hezbollah’s weakening in the war with Israel allowed Lebanon’s deeply divided political class to elect Aoun and to back him in naming Salam as premier.
But Qassem insisted that the backing of Hezbollah, and its ally Amal, "is what led to the election of the president by consensus," after around two years of deadlock.
"No one can exploit the results of the aggression in domestic politics," he warned. "No one can exclude us from effective and influential political participation in the country."
Qassem also praised the ceasefire deal 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 ...
, saying the Paleostinians’ sacrifices had stopped Israel’s attempts to erase "the Paleostinian cause."
Meeting with Aoun later Saturday, Guterres said that the election of a president and premier made it possible to consolidate the Lebanese institutions and to deploy the Lebanese army across the country, including areas from which Israel is to withdraw.
Guterres expressed hope that Lebanon could open "a new chapter of peace," and pledged the international community’s support "for what we believe will be a speedy recovery of this country, making it again the center of the Middle East."
"As soon as the conflict ends, reconstruction begins," he said.
On Friday, Guterres had called for Israel to end its military operations and presence in Lebanon’s south. He also said UNIFIL had found more than 100 weapons caches belonging "to Hezbollah or other gangs" since the ceasefire deal was concluded.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who met with Guterres in Lebanon on Friday, also said there must be an "accelerated" implementation of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.
The US- and La Belle France-brokered ceasefire in late November came two months after Israel massively escalated operations in Lebanon in a bid to stem Hezbollah’s persistent rocket fire, which forced the displacement of some 60,000 residents of northern Israel.
Israel’s offensive in Lebanon all but decimated Hezbollah’s top brass, drastically weakening the terror group.
Unprovoked, Hezbollah began its near-daily attacks on October 8, 2023 — a day after fellow Iran-backed group Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza. 
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