Posted on 10/08/2024 7:52:54 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Naim Qassem, the most senior Hezbollah leader after the assassination of Nasrallah and his successor Safieddine, has called for an unconditional ceasefire, apparently not contingent on a cessation of fighting in Gaza.
The former deputy to Hassan Nasrallah and member of Hezbollah’s Jihad Council announced on Tuesday night that the terror group was “agreeing to a ceasefire without preconditions. First, a ceasefire achieved through diplomatic means, and then we will discuss all the details.”
Experts believe that the announcement was issued at the behest of Iran and was prompted by the terror proxy’s military weakness after repeated Israeli strikes and assassinations of its leaders.
Given that Qassem is the highest-ranking Hezbollah official remaining alive, the request for a ceasefire is apparently an official statement from the terror group.
The request would entail both sides stopping the fighting before an agreement is mediated, most likely through the United Nations.
Qassem added, “If the enemy [Israel] continues its war, then the battlefield will decide.”
He added that he relied on Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to restore calm. “We support the political activity being led by Berri under the title of a ceasefire,” Qassem said.
The statement signals a change in position for Hezbollah since the terror group had indicated, since it began firing missiles into Israel on October 8th, that it would not stop hostilities until Israel submitted to a ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza.
Qassem’s statement implies that Hezbollah may be surrendering the demand for a ceasefire in Gaza as a precondition for a truce between Hezbollah and Israel.
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller explained that Israel has not yet accepted the ceasefire and that there is reason to distrust the request for a ceasefire from Hezbollah, particularly if the terror group refuses to retreat from Israel’s northern border back to the Litani River, as it was supposed to do after the Second Lebanon War according to the terms of Resolution 1701.
“Obviously, we don’t trust Hezbollah,” Miller said. “But you look at what Hezbollah said in 2006 when the UN Security Council adopted 1701… that they would implement 1701 – and they blew through all of their commitments.”
“So there is an obvious lack of faith in Hezbollah’s ability to do what it said in 2006 and do what it’s saying it would do now, which is agree to an actual ceasefire that would allow Israeli civilians to return home and allow Lebanese civilians to return home,” the State Department spokesperson said.
However, Miller said it was hopeful that Hezbollah had not spoken of a ceasefire in the 12 months of fighting and it was mentioning it now that the terror group is “getting battered, suddenly they’ve changed their tune and want a ceasefire. I think it’s not surprising given the situation they find themselves in,” he said.
FReeper Allahu Akhbar Chorus deeply saddened.
Nothing but Hezbollah surrender and either leaving Lebanon or dying.
Cease fire when there are no more targets to shoot.
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The poster at linked post will be deeeeeeply saddened that the answer is no.
Not until they are wiped out
Hudna
Even if my government is a bunch of cheese-eating-collaborating-surrender-monkeys, I am damn proud to be a staunch supporter of Israel. They are taking it to those beasts.
I sure would like this to be true, Hezbollah getting their deserving arms twisted to the point they cry “Uncle”. Don’t know if it is true, but I would like to see it.
Like Germany and Japan-they had to be utterly defeated in 1945 to straighten them out so they could go on to prosper. Perhaps that is what it it is going to take to get the people like Hezbollah and Hamas to change. I doubt that it will-but maybe-just maybe...won’t know unless it is pursued.
That is a great placement of a graphic in a thread, FRiend!
The one I had of the kitten is gone so I had to grab a quick replacement - only after I posted did I realize he may be in a bar - I thought he was in his basement LOL
thanks!
Qassem is the highest-ranking Hezbollah official remaining alive
then UNalive him...
Israel—”Nah, we’re good.”
The answer should be NO. Not only NO but HELL NO.
100,000 Israelis (or more!) have been displaced from their homes. A cease-fire would put those Israelis in quasi-permanent limbo; Hezbollah would resume their rocket terror on them the instant they try to return to their homes.
Hezbollah must be completely destroyed. Nothing else is righteous — not even “surrender”. Whatever collateral damage is necessary to complete their destruction is acceptable.
And the same goes for Gaza. Hamas must be completely destroyed, whatever the cost in philistine “civilians” (which, incidentally, don’t really exist; they’re all Hamas).
The more I think about it — this call for a ceasefire has the stench of Blinken, Sullivan and Obama all over it. This isn’t Qassam’s idea, and it’s not Iran’s idea.
A pox on those three evil bastards!
Excellent!!
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Remember the resupply quay our government built to funnel weapons and ammo to Hamas that got destroyed by unseasonable surf?
That was likely those three idiots too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried it again in Lebanon.
They called down the thunder, what were they expecting??
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