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Last week, Israel’s Supreme Court ordered authorities to allow ICRC access to Palestinian detainees. Lebanon’s National Human Rights Commission (@nhrclb.bsky.social) is now calling for that access to extend to Lebanese prisoners — at least 30 remain held by Israel.
Journalist Dana Hourany reported last month on the case of forgotten abductees, read: thepublicsource.org/lebanese-abd...
"In short, what the government is doing...is worse than surrender."
Surrender would mean that the Lebanese authority acknowledges defeat...& relinquishes its rights accordingly, without necessarily adopting the Israeli narrative that Lebanon is the aggressor and Israel the party aggressed against.
The 'negotiations' are a U.S.-Israeli-managed compliance process, with Hezbollah being the problem to be solved, while Israel is treated, not as a party to the conflict, but as the party entitled to decide whether or not Lebanon has complied, and to keep aggressing whenever it claims it has not.
In this interview by Christina Cavalcanti, scholar Amal Saad argues that the June 3 agreement conditions a ceasefire on Hezbollah halting fire while placing no reciprocal obligation on Israel.
Read the interview at: thepublicsource.org/blog/lebanon...
A “Unilateral Ultimatum”: The Reassignment of Enmity from Israel to Hezbollah
Interview with Scholar Amal Saad about the June 3 agreement.
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"The talks cannot actually be called 'negotiations' because Lebanon is not negotiating anything."
Although the claim that “Hezbollah is an enemy of Lebanon” is attributed to Marco Rubio, the decisive fact is that the Lebanese government signed a document containing those words while simultaneously declaring it has no hostile intent towards Israel.
"Israel, by contrast, is assigned no reciprocal obligation whatsoever.
What is presented as a mutual cessation of hostilities is therefore a unilateral ultimatum framed as an agreement, one that grants Israel full freedom of movement to continue its aggression."
"What is most astonishing about the document is its redefinition of the conflict itself."
The ceasefire it announces is made conditional not on Israel ending its aggression, withdrawing from occupied Lebanese territory... But on “a complete cessation of Hizbollah fire.”
Many problems w/ US-Israeli-Lebanese joint statement & “negotiations” that produced them. All are underpinned by false assumptions:
(1) core problem is Hizballah;
(2) Israeli aggression is merely response to Hizballah;
(3) LAF is boxed out of role it otherwise capable of.
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