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Posted on 06/27/2026 11:55:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Supporters welcomed the agreement as a step toward curtailing Iran’s influence within Lebanon, but others took to the streets, calling it a capitulation.
After Israel and Lebanon signed a preliminary agreement in Washington on Friday aimed at establishing a lasting peace between them, the reaction in Lebanon was immediate and sharply divided.
Supporters of the U.S.-brokered deal said it was a move to curtail Iranian influence in Lebanon, setting out a pathway for the disarmament of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, which Israel is at war with. They also said it asserts Lebanese sovereignty over the country’s internal security.
Others, not least Hezbollah, rejected the framework, calling it a capitulation to Israeli and American demands that could deepen divisions inside Lebanon.
At the core of the deal is a phased security arrangement in which the Lebanese Armed Forces would gradually assume control over all Lebanese territory as nonstate armed groups, like Hezbollah, are disarmed and their military infrastructure is dismantled.
In parallel with that, Israeli forces would carry out a staged withdrawal from the territory, more than six miles into Lebanon, which they have occupied since early March.
On Friday night, hours after the deal was announced, protesters, mostly aligned with Hezbollah, took to the streets of the capital, Beirut, waving the militant group’s yellow flags and denouncing the government.
Footage broadcast on social media and carried by Lebanon’s National News Agency showed dozens of youngsters riding motorcycles and mopeds, blocking roads, burning tires and gathering near the seat of the Lebanese government.
“We certainly condemn and denounce this shameful agreement,” said Abbas Kassem, 30, who is from Blida, a town in southern Lebanon that Israel has occupied for months.
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Because everyone has to give a little bit.
And they all suddenly forget that they are also getting a lot more in the end.
Usually, in most deals, not all the interests and variables have the same importance to all the parties involved. This allows you to offer something less important, for something more important in return.
What that really means, is that it is possible achieve a win-win scenario (It is NOT a zero sum game) even though all sides complain because they simply do not want to give (((anything))) to the opposing side.
Any negotiated deal will always be presented as appeasement, surrender, failure, a betrayal by some. Perceptions (even though you can show your side is a net winner) are hard to argue.
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War is destruction.
War does NOT create wealth. It destroys it.
It only creates wealth for a very small percentage of society while the larger society suffers economically on top of the death and destruction.
War is NOT what the political ruling class should strive for. The Julius Cesar type leader grandstanding with war should be shunned.
It is merely a last resort in those cases where conflict cannot be avoided because of the consequences. In these cases, you need to be sure it is a just conflict. Cliff notes version: https://i0.wp.com/sites.duke.edu/lawfire/files/2020/02/Ethics10.jpg
More detailed: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/just-war-theory-33997420/33997420#1
Hezbollah took to the streets, NYT means. That much is clear from the videos. Everyone is on motorbikes (something that IRGC always does) with passengers waving various Hezbollah flags and AK-47’s.
It’s just been reported that US troops are headed to Southern Lebanon to help the Lebanese Army control the area. What the hell is Trump doing involving US troops in this mess?
The war must continue and expand or Binyamin goes to jail.
Trump knows this, yet here we are.
The Bibi Files: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4385322/posts?page=37#37
When every straw in Mussolini's "fascist" bundle works together authoritarian regimes are strongest. Infighting conversely makes them weaker. Weak enough that a massive motivated, albeit lightly armed and loosely organized, populace can take it down? I don't know. Our CIA has oft been accused of being able to judge and engineer such. I don't know whether we have anyone left there willing to work for, rather than against, us who still has those skills. But history says that if you can find the right kind of leaders for such work it doesn't take a lot of them. Relatively few of ours empowered a weak and mostly intrinsically decapitated Northern Alliance to take down the Taliban, whose approval amongst the general Afghan population was likely much higher than the Regime's in Iran. On the other hand the Bay of Pigs was a disaster for us. The former analogy is the only conceivable long term win for us, the latter would be a Shia wet dream. I hope someone wiser than JFK had is overseeing things.
Y'know, like when there's a Republican POTUS, the demagogues of the Demagogic Party, in and out of media, claim that the nation is suddenly divided? Like that.
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