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Aoun says peace with Israel possible once issues solved
[EN.ANNAHAR] Lebanese President Michel Aoun...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... didn’t rule out that Leb  ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...may one day make peace with Israel, once unresolved issues were solved. "It depends," Aoun said when asked by French TV station BFMTV if Lebanon would reach a peace deal with Israel following a deal last week establishing full diplomatic relations between the Israel and United Arab Emirates. The deal brokered by the U.S. required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex West Bank land sought by the Paleostinians for a future state. "We have problems with Israel that we need to solve first," Aoun said in an interview aired late Saturday. Lebanon and Israel are technically still at war, and Hezbollah has engaged in occasional festivities along the border. Hezbollah and Israel last engaged in a full-fledged conflict in a 50-day war in the summer of 2006. Posted by: Fred 2020-08-17 |
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