Israel, Lebanon, and the United States have signed a framework agreement Friday evening following four days of negotiations in Washington. The agreement includes a security annex and paves the way for the start of an IDF withdrawal pilot from parts of southern Lebanon.
Following the signing of the trilateral framework agreement between Israel, Lebanon, and the United States in Washington, Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a recorded statement: “This is a major blow to Iran. We continue to maintain the original security zone at all times.”
“Today is a good day in that we are happy to announce a framework agreement between the sovereign government of Lebanon and the government of Israel, with the mediation and support of the United States of America, that begins to put in place a framework for lasting peace and security. And that’s what these two nations deserve,” Secretary of State Rubio said Friday.
“The people of Lebanon have suffered tremendously now for decades, as a result of outside interference in their affair, of countries trying to use the country as a launchpad for attacks. And this is not what the people of Lebanon want and that’s not what they deserve,” Rubio added.
“What they deserve to have is what they once had, and of which there is recent history of. And that is a prosperous and peaceful country, a diverse country where people of different backgrounds are able to live and go co-exist side by side, and in many ways was the envy of the region and of the world,” Rubio also said.
“Obviously, the people of Israel deserve to live in peace and security. The people of northern Israel in particular, who have been targeted repeatedly by terrorist attacks launched from the territory of Lebanon, but not by the Lebanese people, not by the Lebanese government, but by an outside actor who has sought to use that territory to target innocent civilians who have been unable to live in these places for a long time,” Rubio continued.
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Positive sign b’eH , but not the first time. The Lebanese army was supposed to have taken over occupation south of the Litani river years ago.
Did the terrorist group Hezbollah also approve?
Signing a “peace treaty” with Lebanon without getting Hezbollah and the Palestinians to agree?? There’s a precedent from World War II. The Allies signed a framework agreement with Italy in 1943 which ended the war between the Allies and Italy — though of course the war continued in Italy for another two years since the Germans were the real enemy. For all purposes, Israel has not been at war with Lebanon since 1949, so this public relations stunt is equally meaningless.