Lebanese offer to the Americans: Pull Israel, withdraw weapons north of Litani

A great Lebanese official reference says that Lebanon has already entered into the “sterile equation” that asks: Who came first, the egg or the chicken? The question in the Lebanese case is the one who will come first, withdrawing the weapon of Hezbollah or the withdrawal of Israel from the Lebanese territories, and stopping its attacks north and south of the Litani River, which says the UN resolution 1701 that its south must be free of illegal weapons, while Israel will drop this line by demanding the party of the party – its heavy less – from the entire Lebanon.

A senior Lebanese official source told Asharq Al -Awsat that Lebanon has officially informed the American administration that “Israeli concessions are corresponding to the files of withdrawal, stopping the attacks and returning the prisoners, which would provide radical solutions to the crisis.” Pointing out that what is required is to give the official Lebanon a dose of American support that pressure Israel, which will undoubtedly meet important Lebanese steps in the field of implementing what was stated in the speech of President Joseph Aoun’s department, in which he talked about the need for the state to possess a “exclusive weapon”.

The source revealed that President Aoun asked the American delegate Tom Barak to help achieve this path; “Because the request to withdraw weapons must be preceded by Israeli steps in this field.” The source said that the Lebanese army prepared a budget map of the Americans about what it will do for every Israeli step, whether with regard to withdrawal, or others. Lebanon believes that the lack of withdrawal of Israel and its continued attacks prevents the deployment of the army completely south of the Litani and controlling the border. The source said that Lebanon has directly asked the Americans to secure these steps, in exchange for a pledge to start the process of withdrawing weapons north of the Litani River.

As the source expected the return of the talks by Aoun with Hezbollah that stopped due to the Iran -Israeli war, he stressed that Lebanon “possesses the perception and will” to address the issue of the party’s weapon in the entire Lebanon, revealing that Aoun spoke directly with the head of the Hezbollah Representatives Bloc, Muhammad Raad, about the need to hand over heavy weapons to the Lebanese army, which will be kept or destroyed according to the circumstances and necessities, indicating that this weapon has been And the benefit of it after the last war in Lebanon, and the inability to use it.

Lebanese officials are making efforts to mature a unified position that responds to the “paper of ideas” presented by Brak. And Al -Sharq Al -Awsat learned that the official Lebanese response was made between President Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, who will hold the response project to meet Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Saturday, after which – if it is agreed – it is submitted to a government meeting to be approved and presented to the American delegate upon his return after less than two weeks. Berri negotiates this file with Hezbollah.

The paper includes a set of titles, the most important of which is the issue of withdrawing weapons, and Lebanon’s plan to start the operation. The second is to adopt the principle of a step in exchange for a step with the Israeli side, which insisted that the first step be Lebanese, in exchange for Lebanon’s adherence to being Israeli “as the occupied state.” The third is an economic part related to the reforms that Lebanon is supposed to be approved and the cooperation project with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. As for the fourth, it is the subject of the relationship with Syria and ways to address the outstanding files between the two countries.

The Minister of Information, Paul Morcos, said after a government meeting, on Friday, that “the government will immediately begin to move if political contacts advance,” noting that “Israel must withdraw from the occupied points and stop its attacks; In order to be able to complete the obligations on us. ”

The President of the Republic had held the American delegate these demands, so that the Israeli escalation came as a “negotiating response”, according to unofficial Lebanese estimates. The media office of the President of the Republic announced that it continued “the Israeli escalation that targeted the Nabatiyeh regions, the province of Al -Tafah and the safe population”, and condemned “Israel’s continued violation of Lebanon and the November agreement last (which stopped the war between the party and Israel).”

He pointed out that “Israel continues to hit the wall with regional and international decisions and calls to stop violence and escalation in the region, which requires an active movement from the international community to put an end to these attacks that do not serve the efforts made to stabilize stability in Lebanon and the countries of the region.”
He also reviewed the army commander, General Rudolph Haykal, on security developments and the army’s measures to maintain security and stability in the country.

In the same context, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the Israeli attacks, pointing out in a tweet on the X platform, that it “represents a clear violation of national sovereignty and the arrangements for stopping the hostilities that were reached last November, as well as a threat to the stability that we are keen on Sawen.”

The post Lebanese offer to the Americans: Pull Israel, withdraw weapons north of Litani appeared first on 961 tobay Lebanon today.