Israel Reportedly Considering U.S. Proposal for Lebanon Ceasefire
Israel’s Ynet News: “Residents and local leaders fear emerging truce will allow terror group to regroup and rebuild.”
After months of pressure from the Biden administration, Israel appears to be considering a possibile ceasefire with Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon. “Israel and Lebanon have agreed to the terms of a ceasefire agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah conflict,” the U.S. news website Axios reported Monday citing a “senior U.S. official.”
Israeli official sources have also indicated the approval of a ceasefire agreement by Jerusalem in coming days. “The war cabinet is set to convene on Tuesday to approve a pending ceasefire that would bring an end to hostilities on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon,” the Jerusalem Post also reported Monday quoting an Israeli official.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly approved a ceasefire with Lebanon “in principle” while meeting with Israeli officials on Sunday evening, citing outstanding issues before approval,” the newspaper added.
Israel was repeotedly forced to agree to a ceasefire amid growing threats from the Biden administration. “Israel decided it had no choice but to accept a ceasefire, in part out of a fear that the US administration could punish Israel with a United Nations Security Council resolution in its final weeks, the official asserted,” The Times of Israel noted.
“Threat of US action at UN played into Jerusalem’s decision-making” – now it makes sense, Biden threatened to poison Israel via a UN Security Council resolution just like Obama did in his final days.
https://t.co/xUhFdW3t9r via @timesofisrael— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) November 25, 2024
Axios reporter Barak Ravid outlined the details of a possibile ceasefire agreement:
“We think we have a deal. We are on the goal line but we haven’t passed it yet. The Israeli cabinet needs to approve the deal on Tuesday and something can always go wrong until then,” the U.S. official said.
Four U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios on Sunday that the deal was nearly final. (…)
The draft ceasefire agreement includes a 60-day transition period during which the Israeli military would withdraw from southern Lebanon, the Lebanese army would deploy in areas close to the border and Hezbollah would move its heavy weapons north of the Litani River. (…)
The U.S. has agreed to give Israel a letter of assurances that includes support for Israeli military action against imminent threats from Lebanese territory, and for action to disrupt things like the reestablishment of a Hezbollah military presence near the border or the smuggling of heavy weapons, Israeli and U.S. officials say.
Under the agreement, Israel would take such action after consultations with the U.S., and if the Lebanese military did not deal with the threat.
Hezbollah continues firing rocket barrages into Israel
While the Biden administration pushes for a ceasefire deal, Hezbollah on Monday fired dozens of rockets aimed at Israeli towns and cities. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Monday afternoon that “approximately 20 projectiles were fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon toward the area of Nahariya in northern Israel.”
Israeli fighter jets retaliated by targeting “the launcher used to fire the projectiles from the area of Bazouriye in southern Lebanon,” the IDF disclosed.
The IDF carried out strikes on Hezbollah’s terrorist bases across Lebanon and the terror group’s main stronghold in southern Beirut. The Israeli Air Forces “conducted intelligence-based strikes on command centers of Hezbollah’s coast-to-sea missiles unit, communication units, and two additional Hezbollah military command centers in the Dahieh area, a key Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut,” the Israeli military said.
Northern Israelis ‘outraged’ over possible ceasefire deal
The news of a possibile ceasefire with Hezbollah was received with ‘outrage’ by the residents and elected officials in northern Israel, local news reports indicate.
In late September, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered the ground offensive to root out the Iran-backed terrorist group from southern Lebanon. The Israeli ground operation and decapitation strikes had a devastating impact on Hezbollah, nearly obliterating its command structure and crippling its terrorist capabilities.
The Shia-Islamic terror group, however, continues to fire missiles and drones from southern Lebanon. Around 60,000 residents of northern Israel have been forced to flee their homes amid ongoing Hezbollah aerial attacks.
The Israeli news website YNET reported the widespread public opposition to the ceasefire bid:
Reports of progress toward a cease-fire with Hezbollah have sparked significant frustration among residents of northern Israel, who fear that a potential agreement could allow the Lebanese terrorist group to rebuild and once again threaten their safety. An American official said Monday that “a cease-fire in Lebanon is imminent.”
After more than a year of hostilities, residents are calling for a decisive resolution that exploits Hezbollah’s current weakened state following the extensive Israeli bombing campaign, which has targeted much of its leadership.
Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avihay Stern expressed strong opposition to the reported deal, urging Israel’s leaders to reconsider. “Before signing what feels like a surrender agreement, I call on our leaders to look into the eyes of Kiryat Shmona’s children and think of their future,” Stern said.
“This agreement brings the threat of October 7 closer to the north. How have we gone from total victory to total surrender? Why not finish what we started? We’ve crushed Hezbollah, yet instead of dismantling it completely, we’re giving it the chance to recover. And what will our residents return to? A devastated city with no security and no future? This is madness,” Stern warned.
Residents across the region are demanding that Israel “end the story” and eliminate Hezbollah’s capabilities, ensuring long-term security before returning to their homes.
Moshe Davidovich, head of the Mateh Asher Regional Council in the Western Galilee, harshly criticized the emerging cease-fire agreement. “I ask myself whether I’m living in a dream or a delusion—or if the decision-makers in Israel’s government are the ones delusional,” Davidovich said in an interview with Ynet.
The Israelis living along the Lebanon border are rightly sceptical of a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah. The United Nations-brokered 2006 ceasefire arrangement only allowed the Iran-sponsored terrorist group to build a vast underground terrorist infrastructure and embed its heavy weaponry in civilian neighborhood — all right under the nose of the UN’s international ‘peacekeeping’ force, stationed for the very purpose of preventing a terrorist buildup in the area.
The UAE arrests 3 Uzbek nationals for the killing of Chabad rabbi
The United Arab Emirates authorities arrested three Uzbek nationals in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a Jewish rabbi.
Rabbi Zvi Kogan, the Chabad representative in the UAE, has gone missing on Thursday. The body of the 28-year-old rabbi was recovered Sunday.
Israeli intelligence agencies Mossad believes that the three-member terror squad was working on direction from Iran, Israeli media reported Sunday.
The Associated Press reported:
The United Arab Emirates said Monday police arrested three Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi, an attack that’s raised concerns for the burgeoning Israeli community in the country. (…)
The Interior Ministry statement identified the three men as Olimboy Tohirovich, 28, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, 28, and Azizbek Kamilovich, 33. The state-run WAM news agency carried images of the three men, blindfolds covering their faces in prison uniforms and flip flops. (…)
Israeli media reports, citing unnamed security officials, had alleged Uzbeks were involved in Kogan’s killing. Uzbeks and other transnational criminal gangs previously have been hired in Iranian plots targeting dissidents and others.
🚨 Thousands at the funeral of the Rabbi Zvi Kogan ZL HYD, now in Kfar Chabad pic.twitter.com/6pJEuw0MPZ
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) November 25, 2024
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Today. Request negotiations, keep Blinken Blink’en and Hamas and Co, hopeful. To stave off unilateral actions by radicals in the administration. Saying “Nice doggie,” until a big rock becomes available.
Come Jan 20, “Nope,” and grind Hamas to dust. They’re not stupid.
Of course Hezbollah seems even less inclined than Israel.
This actually makes sense. If Lebanon has agreed to occupy the south and keep Hizballah out, that’s all Israel ever wanted in the first place. Israel doesn’t want to occupy southern Lebanon. It did so for nearly 20 years because it had no choice, and when the traitor Ehud Barak abandoned it we all saw what happened. What Israel wants, and has always wanted, is for the Lebanese army to do its damned job. If it’s now finally going to do it, then why wouldn’t Israel agree to cease fire?
But it retains the right to act if there are any violations. No more 2006 situation, where the Lebanese were too weak to do what they promised, and the international observers sat there and observed as Hizballah blatantly violated the resolution.
The question is whether Lebanon can and will perform its obligations under the deal. I’m skeptical.
I’m even more skeptical that the international forces supposedly enforcing this deal will do so, instead of allowing violations by Lebanon & Hizbollah and blocking any effective countermeasures by Israel, the way the UN (may its name be blotted out) has done for decades.
At least as reported here and elsewhere, Israel keeps full authority to take whatever action is necessary to respond to violations. It doesn’t depend on anyone else to do so.
And if Lebanon doesn’t occupy the south and move Hizballah north then Israel doesn’t pull out. It’s a phased process.
If it’s anything other than an unconditional surrender, the Israeli should say go to hell
Hm…What’s the over/under on how many minutes elapse between Hezbollah signing the ceasefire agreement and violating it.
If it’s anywhere over 60, I’ll bet under.
I agree with venril: odds are this is just a delaying tactic to keep the Bureaucrat puppet-masters of the Biden administration from doing anything rash before Trump takes office.
No cease-fire should be considered until the rockets stop.
No ceasefire until retaliation is complete.
Even if there’s a ceasefire, it will be broken in days, if not hours. Hezbollah can’t stop shooting things at Israel. It’s simply in their nature.
Commerce with Israel is profitable for Lebanon. They just have to have a will to break up their cabal of residential extremists.
You make that sound so easy.
Where there’s a will. There’s a way. The US and other countries not mixed in with the UN anti-Israel nutter coalition would be happy to help them.
It takes both sides, and this admin knows it. All for appearance. Israel has often agreed to cease-fires but the orher sides always break it
This administration may or may not knew it. The administration has raised magical thinking to an art form, & isn’t capable of protecting America’s interests, as witness Benghazi and the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, much less tell Israel how to protect its own.
The fact that Brandon ok’d launching ICBM’s into Russia and now is threatening Israel in the UN Security Council makes me wonder what other devastation the people running our Government will do to us and the world on their spiteful exit from power.
Antony Blinken pays hundreds of millions to people who are holding American civilians in captivity for over a year.
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