Posted on 09/30/2024 11:57:21 AM PDT by McGruff
President Biden starkly instructed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday to abandon reported plans for an imminent invasion of southern Lebanon to clear out Hezbollah-held areas days after the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah.
“Israel may now be launching a limited operation into Lebanon. Are you aware of that? Are you comfortable with their plan?” a journalist asked Biden at the White House.
“I’m more aware than you might know, and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” the president replied.
“We should have a cease-fire now,” he added.
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Is he even aware of what day it is?
Yep...
This article is a lie, braindead never said that, it was his body/face double.
Bidens brain died at 01:30am on January 3rd 1973, he was replaced by a deep state puppet at 01:32 on January 3rd 1973.
PROVE ME WRONG!
STFU, old man.
Joe
Assume the position and say “thank you sir, may I have another”
Thank God we have a weak president when it comes to Israel fighting terrorism. Reagan too got it wrong by forcing Israel to withdraw from Lebanon after James Baker lied to him by showing pics of dead Druze children murdered by the PLO and telling him they were “Palestinian” children killed by Druze. A furious Reagan called Begin at 3am and demanded they pull out.
“PROVE ME WRONG!”
His brain farts. Therefore, it lives.
“..The ones they don’t kill by military means will be dealt with eventually. Even if it takes decades....”
We’re still patiently waiting for them to deal with Sorosa and his filthy ilk.
Biden thinks he’s an Iranian today.
don’t
As is much of the world.
Would not be surprised if Jimmy Carter will outlives this guy.
He has no clue what he is saying, written by some 20 something silver spoon socialist Ivy Leaguer.
“Let’s go, Brandon!”
Thank you. I especially appreciate your Comment #73
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4268089/posts?page=73#73
ARTICLE
Israel Moves Closer To Ground Offensive In Lebanon, Despite Biden Opposition
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty*
September 30, 2024
https://www.rferl.org/a/israel-lebanon-ground-offensive-hezbollah/33140608.html
Israel appeared to move closer to launching a ground offensive against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, while U.S. President Joe Biden forcefully said he opposed such a move by the close U.S. ally, as events in the Middle East threatened to spin out of control.
“The next stage in the war against Hezbollah will begin soon,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on September 30, as the U.S. State Department reported that Israeli special forces had launched small ground raids against Hezbollah and sealed off communities along its northern border.
“We will use all the means that may be required — your forces, other forces, from the air, from the sea, and on land,” Gallant told his troops.
“The elimination of [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah is an important step, but it is not the final one.”
Israel killed longtime nemesis Nasrallah on September 27 as it launched a series of massive air strikes in and around Beirut and southern Lebanon that has also claimed the lives of multiple Hezbollah leaders and other members of sanctioned militant groups.
Hezbollah is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, while the European Union blacklists its armed wing but not its political party. Hezbollah’s political party has seats in the Lebanese parliament.
In a televised address, Naim Qassem, deputy director of Hezbollah — an Iran-backed militant group and political party that controls much of southern Lebanon — claimed that his fighters were “ready if Israel decides to enter by land.”
A Lebanese official told the AFP news agency that Lebanon had moved the soldiers of its small national army from regions near the Israeli border to avoid any conflict in the event of a ground offensive by Tel Aviv.
Meanwhile, when asked whether he was comfortable with Israel launching a ground operation in Lebanon, Biden told reporters that “I’m comfortable with them stopping. We should have a cease-fire now.”
Later, as tensions mounted, the White House said in a statement that Washington believes the way to get an Israel-Lebanon cease-fire is to have a diplomatic resolution.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, speaking from Beirut, also urged Israel “to refrain from any ground incursion and to cease fire.” He also called on Hezbollah “to do the same and to refrain from any action likely to lead to regional destabilization.”
Israeli attacks in Lebanon and in Yemen against Iran-backed Huthi rebels and claims by Tehran-allied Hezbollah militants that they had fired into Israel with its new “nour missile” – which observers say might be a ballistic missile – led to increased fears on September 30 that there could be an all-out war in the Middle East.
Late on September 30, an Israeli air strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, creating large explosions after Israel’s military had warned civilians to leave three specific buildings that would be targeted in the densely populated neighborhood.
Separately, Iran said it will not deploy forces to Lebanon or the Gaza Strip to fight Israel amid the intensified attacks against the Hezbollah in Lebanon.
“There is no need to send extra or volunteer forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said on September 30, saying Lebanon and fighters in the Palestinian territories “have the capability and strength to defend themselves against the aggression.”
Kanani’s statement came as Qassem said in a video message that a replacement for Nasrallah will be chosen “sooner, rather than later.”
In the message, he said the selection will be made within the regular mechanisms of Hezbollah. He gave no further details.
Nasrallah was killed last week in an Israeli air strike on the southern command center of Hezbollah.
*[RFE/RL journalists report the news in 27 languages in 23 countries where a free press is banned by the government or not fully established. We provide what many people cannot get locally: uncensored news, responsible discussion, and open debate.]
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Associated Press
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“Israeli ground forces moved into southern Lebanon early Tuesday, marking a significant escalation of an offensive against Hezbollah and opening a new front in a yearlong war against its Iranian-backed adversaries.
The incursion follows weeks of heavy blows by Israel against Hezbollah — including an airstrike that killed its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
The Israeli military said in a brief statement it had begun ‘limited, localized and targeted ground raids’ against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.”
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