Major General Jamil Al-Sayyid considered that the stage following the “framework agreement” that was agreed upon in Washington would constitute a real test for the American role, warning that Lebanon may find itself facing a very complicated situation if the United States does not commit to obliging Israel to withdraw quickly and comprehensively from the south.
Al-Sayyed said, in a post on the “X” platform, that the Presidents of the Republic and the Government agreed, in accordance with the “Framework Agreement” in Washington, to remove Lebanon from the US-Iranian ceasefire agreement, and to subject Lebanon and its army to “Israeli experiments in the south” without any time limits or guarantees of a comprehensive withdrawal.
He added that the agreement, according to his reading, is entirely in the interest of Israel, and makes Lebanon a “field of experiments,” with the exception of one case, which is that the American guarantee is “serious and strict” in obliging Israel to withdraw completely and quickly, instead of imposing what he described as “explosive and impossible conditions” on the Lebanese state.
He believed that “the ball is in America’s court alone,” considering that if Washington exerts pressure on Israel, especially with regard to rapid withdrawal, it will make it easier for the Lebanese state to fulfill the remaining obligations at a serious and rapid pace.
Al-Sayyed concluded by warning that if the United States kept the southern arena open to “Israel’s experiments,” and did not lift the pressure and blackmail on Lebanon, the Lebanese state and its pillars would be “between the jaws of the pincers,” adding: “They lost in the homeland and did not win with Israel.”
