In its US-backed deal with Israel, Lebanon took a big step toward reclaiming its country. Its leaders must be protected from assassination by Iran and Hezbollah.
Very hopeful about this new accord, very skeptical that this Israeli government will not throw away another opportunity to end the wars and shift to diplomacy. The only long-term solution for Isreal is peace in the region, anything else leads to increasingly desperate and horrible October 7ths. Israel needs to accept that just as wars are dangerous and cost treasure and lives, so is peace - there will be terror attacks by the evil opponents, there will be assassinations of brave leaders, but if you stay the course, you change the game. Sadly the public is easily swayed and the enemies of peace have learned how populism and social media can manipulate things for them.
Note that on Israeli TV many of the analysts are saying Israel may be in southern Lebanon for years, maybe decades. I wonder if Israeli settlers will try to move in there to establish new facts on the ground. It worked so well for them in the West Bank that now even the most normal Israelis can contemplate transferring (re: ethnically cleansing) the Palestinian population because, well, "what can be done?".
Never trust the Israeli right - a good principle to follow.
I think what’s important to remember, convicted sex offender trumps pea sized brain. If the plan makes more money for Trump, he’s in. It feels like many other moments where Trump makes you think he knows what he’s doing, but he doesn’t. And I assume you are aware. I appreciate the concept of ‘hope’ but not when Trump is involved. The man is devoid of empathy. Trump functions on what he has to gain. The process of peace will take too long and as usual, Trump will disengage, since the reward is not immediate. I realize that some folks want to find a minuscule of character, but that will never happen, it doesn’t exist in trumpland.
I voted for yes more because I am hopeful rather than certain, after 78 years of doing the wrong thing, change is coming. If not, then there will be another 78 years of misery. Maybe this time Lebanon, with Europe and the Middle Eastern countries, can free itself of Hezbollah, and bypass both felons, DonOld and Bibi.
That would be excellent! But I must be clear on one thing: While Trump is clearly a "felon," Netanyahu technically is not as he has managed to drag our his trial on bribery, fraud and breach of trust for six years and counting using non-stop delay tactics and machinations -- and also because he mysterious evaded prosecution in the submarines scandal in which several of his adjutants became actual felows. So just to be clear, and to put everything in perfectly precise context, while Trump is indeed a felon Netanyahu is, technically, by a wafer-thin whisker of a nuance, merely a "criminal defendent."
Very hopeful about this new accord, very skeptical that this Israeli government will not throw away another opportunity to end the wars and shift to diplomacy. The only long-term solution for Isreal is peace in the region, anything else leads to increasingly desperate and horrible October 7ths. Israel needs to accept that just as wars are dangerous and cost treasure and lives, so is peace - there will be terror attacks by the evil opponents, there will be assassinations of brave leaders, but if you stay the course, you change the game. Sadly the public is easily swayed and the enemies of peace have learned how populism and social media can manipulate things for them.
Note that on Israeli TV many of the analysts are saying Israel may be in southern Lebanon for years, maybe decades. I wonder if Israeli settlers will try to move in there to establish new facts on the ground. It worked so well for them in the West Bank that now even the most normal Israelis can contemplate transferring (re: ethnically cleansing) the Palestinian population because, well, "what can be done?".
Never trust the Israeli right - a good principle to follow.
Well, if the opposition wins in October, perhaps your concerns will no longer be valid. At the moment, alas, they certainly are.
I think what’s important to remember, convicted sex offender trumps pea sized brain. If the plan makes more money for Trump, he’s in. It feels like many other moments where Trump makes you think he knows what he’s doing, but he doesn’t. And I assume you are aware. I appreciate the concept of ‘hope’ but not when Trump is involved. The man is devoid of empathy. Trump functions on what he has to gain. The process of peace will take too long and as usual, Trump will disengage, since the reward is not immediate. I realize that some folks want to find a minuscule of character, but that will never happen, it doesn’t exist in trumpland.
Hey, I led the story by conceding that VERY point! So, well, yeah.
A hopeful “yes”!
I voted for yes more because I am hopeful rather than certain, after 78 years of doing the wrong thing, change is coming. If not, then there will be another 78 years of misery. Maybe this time Lebanon, with Europe and the Middle Eastern countries, can free itself of Hezbollah, and bypass both felons, DonOld and Bibi.
That would be excellent! But I must be clear on one thing: While Trump is clearly a "felon," Netanyahu technically is not as he has managed to drag our his trial on bribery, fraud and breach of trust for six years and counting using non-stop delay tactics and machinations -- and also because he mysterious evaded prosecution in the submarines scandal in which several of his adjutants became actual felows. So just to be clear, and to put everything in perfectly precise context, while Trump is indeed a felon Netanyahu is, technically, by a wafer-thin whisker of a nuance, merely a "criminal defendent."
You are correct Dan, Bibi is not at this time a felon. His time should come after the elections in October. I should have said both fools not felons.
That would have been impossible to dispute!