Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has said that Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah agreed to a US and French-proposed 21-day ceasefire with Israel right before Israel killed him.
Habib said the US and France told Lebanon that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed to the ceasefire proposal.
“They told us that Mr. Netanyahu agreed on this, and so we also got the agreement of Hezbollah on that. And, you know what happened since then,” Habib told CNN host Christiane Amanpour.
On September 25, the US, France, and several other nations released a joint statement calling for an immediate 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon to give time to reach a diplomatic solution to the situation on the Israel-Lebanon border and reach a ceasefire in Gaza. The following day, Netanyahu arrived in New York for the UN General Assembly and rejected rumors that Israel agreed to the truce.
US officials told the media that they coordinated the ceasefire proposal with Israel and were “frustrated” with Netanyahu for rejecting it. But the US put no real pressure on Israel to agree to the ceasefire. The same day Netanyahu rejected it, Israel announced it secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from Washington.
On Friday, September 27, Netanyahu ordered the massive airstrike that killed Nasrallah from a hotel in New York, following his address to the UN. Israeli officials told ABC News they decided to kill Nasrallah because he wouldn’t negotiate a diplomatic solution without a ceasefire in Gaza.
By all the gods, this is a new low, even for Israel.
There will be more lows to come.
Are you serious? A new low? The abyss has no bottom…
Isra-hell killed the previous negotiator for peace several months ago. Peace is inconvenient to a nation specializing in ethnic cleansing.
ASG's been updated to include more comprehensive thoughts on Ukraine. Some good parts on Zionism and 9/11 as well, if you haven't read in a few weeks. Control + F "July 4" is easiest to skip ahead:
https://roninhardjan.substack.com/p/americas-shadow-government-behind
That is hard to believe. If he did it is because he must of sense that Israel was closing in on him. Sinwar is next.
Assassination of political leaders is a deliberate policy of the Likud ?
Yes, assassination of terrorists leaders is a deliberate policy of Israel.
Then, by your way of thinking, Netanyahu is a terrorist as he orders the wanton killing of civilians, and he should be assassinated. Am I correct?
No. You are not correct. Because term wanton is incorrect.
LOL. Eat sh-t. you blood soaked liar.
You are lying yet again. Busy day for you. They up the quota or is review time coming soon and you're hoping on a raise ?
Hardly. Having no regard for people's SAFTEY couldn't be more obvious.
Hardly. Having no regard for people's SAFTEY couldn't be more obvious.
Your logic is valid and sound.
Remarkable – you do realize that’s utterly barbaric and only leads to more violence and destruction. ? Appears Likudniks failed the Entlightment semester in school.
Likud now forcing its conscripts and weekend warriors to invade Lebanon. Yesterday 80 IDF KIA/WIA. Today watching live feeds of battlefield reports it’s going to be about the same. Senseless Slaughter postmark Bibi.
Wars are by nature barbaric. Hezbollah chose to start this war.
That's another lie.
Gen. MacArthur would be disgusted at your statement.
Tell us what makes Nasrallah a "terrorist" as compared to Netanyahu. Does he use 2000 lb bombs on tent cities? Does he bulldoze Israelis into the ground? Does he withhold humanitarian aid that creates a man-made famine? Does he illegally use white phosphorous? Does he torture Israeli prisoners with electrified steel rods? Does he kill aid workers? Journalists? Kick dead Israeli bodies off of buildings? Send hundreds of decomposing bodies back to Israel? I mean, I could go on and on and on. What exactly sets him apart from the master of terrorism, Netanyahu?
You complaints about Netanyahu does not change the fact that Nasrallah was the leader of organization that cause many deaths. Nasrallah was a first class terrorists.
Netanyahu is the leader of an organization that has caused a hundred times more deaths.
and extra brutal deaths, no one can beat that, he is the best.
And Netanyahu is the leader of an organization that caused many deaths. MANY MANY DEATHS. I had asked you to tell me the difference between the two and I listed some of what Netanyahu has done in just the last year alone. Now give me something more than causing "many" deaths because Netanyahu has numbers that destroy Nasrallah's. So, by your own standards, Netanyahu can only be described as a first-class terrorist. Again, thank you for admitting that.
I don't believe your claim.
Additionally it is known Hezbollah does not send its people abroad on higher than Business Class tickets; most often, they travel Economy, on discount carriers.
But he could not beat Netanyahu, he beats all, compared to him Nasrallah was nothing, just a great leader, a gentle, elderly man is my impression of him.
That kind of stupid lie makes you look very stupid. A good lie needs at least a little plausibility. This time you just put it on too thick.
Besides no one in the UN gives Hezbollah and Hamas credibility to be terrorist organizations, they just don't make the grade. They are no competition for the Zionist-Irgun state Israel, they are #1, they are outstanding terrorists no one can beat them.
“no one in the UN gives Hezbollah and Hamas credibility to be terrorist organizations”
The US and Israel are both in the UN. Are you saying they don’t consider Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist organizations?
Exactly, the UN has never declared Hamas a terrorist organization, by international law Hamas is a legal resistance organization you may not like it but that is what it is. The same is true of Hezbollah.
The USA still declares Cuba a terrorist state and for years they kept Nelson Mandela on the terrorist list. Any time they need an excuse for a regime change or military aggression out comes the terrorist accusation, or questioning elections like Maduro in Venezuela and Castro in Cuba, a number of attempts to kill Chavez of Venezuela, the killing of Allende in Chile, the regime change in Iran 1953 of an elected Mossadegh for the Shah, a brutal dictator, and Saddam Hussein and Ghadaffy and even Putin is on the list . The USA/Israel have become rogue states, criminals are sitting in the oval office. But we don’t dare tell it as it is.
I will only vote for people with decency and integrity and competence or not at all. All is about hegemony and control of resources, for that they will destroy democracy.
Putting “exactly” in front of a complete change of your claim doesn’t magically erase the original claim. “The UN” and “no one in the UN” are two different things.
The UN AND NO BRANCH in the UN has designated Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations. Splitting hair does not change that fact. Only the Americans and their vassals call them terrorists, that is not an official UN policy.
No problem — you corrected your false claim.
The US and Israel assassinate diplomates and scientists that is what normal terrorist states do.
You're such a lying asshole Tim.
Israel is the biggest terrorist in the region.
Death to Israel!
Guaranteed Major Burns is getting messages from them-there Hasbro trolls' handlers, saying "Please stop – your pro-ASI apologetics are s**t and are REALLY hurting our cause."
Uncle, I don't get it, but I know you are right.
This is the year of spectacular assassinations apparently. Just ask Donald Trump. He was supposed to have his head blown off on live TV in July.
Then AGAIN by that wishy-washy dips**t (seriously – who under 90 y/o uses "gumption", ever ???) what tried to snipe him at Key Lime Pie-a-go-go.
Trump likes assassinations , he has a record of it.
It's been a deliberate policy of the Zionists since forever. Back in the 1940's they wanted to assassinate Truman, for Christ's sakes!
Irgun was the name of their terrorist organization going back before WW 2
Indeed – apparently a bunch of letter bombs were mailed to Truman but intercepted by WH security.
It's not hard to believe. Netanyahu always wanted wars and he is always doing everything to sabotage any chance of peace.
Nutanyahu was just rewarded with another $8 Billion from the US government. That's a nice incentive to keep killing.
It is very hard to believe. But even if he did, he clearly did it because he saw his organization taking a big hit which he hope to rebuild in 3 week pause. He is not some peace loving leader.
You are lying.
May I add Biden?
Which means you're admitting that Israel is the detriment to peace. But somehow you think it's justified.
I have no problem with killing of terrorists leaders. If you think that is the reason there is lack peace in middle east, while that is your opinion. But as Israel hater and terrorists supported you of course will blame everything on Israel.
You are the hater.
You are the terrorist supporter.
You are the cheerleader for war criminals.
You are the genocide denier.
You're everything filthy Tim.
You, on the other hand, Hakeem-the-dreamjoehill2, are correct about EVERYTHING you just said.
It's the reason there will be no progress towards peace and the future will be nothing but the same. Actually, much worse. There is no chance for peace if Israel continues on its current path. They aren't going to kill their way to peace. And your shit about me, or anyone else, being an Israel hater or terrorist supporter is just making you look foolish.
He's an apologist for the Apartheid State of Israel. And like religious apologists, his purpose is to lie, ignore facts, consider NO alternate points of view, admit no mistakes, and accuse others of his own faults ("projection" is the technical term).
With Israel in the region there will be no peace ever.
You're lying.
You don't know what a terrorist is, that is if you believe your own lies.
Israel and the USA are terrorist states, they break every law under the sun, they are baby k*llers as ev*l as it gets
He is getting some money each time he is replying to u. U should ask for a cut. Jake probably is a believer. This guy is just hasbarah
By ordering the murder, from the hotel in the U.S., Netanyahu violated U.S. and International law. He probably knew of the proposal by Nasrallah, killing him would kill off the cease fire.
Netanyahu did not violate any US laws. With or without Nasrallah death, Israel was not going to grant a cease fire at this point. Why would they give Hezbollah three weeks to rebuild. Almost all ceasefires in the history of warfare are used by both sides to rebuild.
Death to Israel!
You're lying again.
There is no law he wouldn't break.
Netanyahu is playing the US like a fiddle
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t flip-flop on his response to a joint US-French call or a 21-day ceasefire along the Israeli-Lebanese border, a senior diplomatic source told Israeli reporters during a briefing in New York.
“We never agreed to it,” the source said.
https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-822105?dicbo=v2-9k98z1z
"the truth is a lie"
Nothing so subtle, … more like a big bass drum.
No, he is NOT. The US is TOTALLY on board with this assassination and with a wider war.
People need to stop saying Netanyahu controls the US. He does NOT. He is working hand-in-glove with Biden and the neocons. The US controls Israel.
This is not to say that Israel doesn't have major influence in the US to a ridiculous degree. But in the end it is the US oligarchs and the neocons – most of whom are Jewish, but not all – who are using Netanyahu just as he is using the US.
It's the same "perfect storm" that occurred for the Iraq war – the oil companies, the MIC, the banks behind them, the neocons and the Israelis all came together. The same is happening now.
So those 80 2T bombs were intended to kill the ceasefire, not Nasrallah.
No there intent was to kill Nasrallah and other leaders plus damage Hezballoh headquarters.
Fq off you lying sack of sh-t.
I don't believe your misspelled claims.
And if you intend to post as "jake" you have to log out of "Tim Burns" and refresh your browser.
Both. The offer of the ceasefire was to draw out Nasrallah so he could be hit. I'm just surprised that Nasrallah would have agreed to it – if in fact he did. We only have the Lebanese Foreign Minister's word for that he did.
He showed up because they were willing to consider it if nothing else, it is so plausible and hard to believe the Lebanese FM made it up.
A normal mind would not imagine such deception, it is so unbelievable, yet plausible. MHO
correction, one US ton =2000 pounds. a metric ton = 1000 kilo.
I call bullshit on the whole story. On second thought it was a scam to draw out Nasrallah so Israel could hit him. This may well have been what Nasrallah was meeting with his team to discuss and that is what sealed his fate.
They told Nasrallah that Netanyahu agreed to the ceasefire. That caused Nasrallah to coordinate with his team. And that's when they killed him.
If anyone needs any more proof that both Washington and Israel are directly pursuing a wider war in the Middle East, this is it.
Some time ago I think it was Lavrov who said the Americans can't be trusted, they are incapable to negotiate. With all the dishonesty and assassination nothing surprises anymore. I think it is plausible and believe it is how it happened. Talking of evil people, it can't get more evil.
Damn dude, you beat me to it by 11 minutes. I'm a one finger typer.
Talking to Major Burns, I can guess which finger you're using.
Practice makes the master, but to be honest, I am no better if not worse.
My latest Substack on the news that Nasrallah was set up for his assassination… Based on my response I posted here earlier.
How Nasrallah Was Tricked Into Dying
Wherein I explain how the US and Israel set up Nasrallah to be assassinated…
https://richardstevenhack.substack.com/p/how-nasrallah-was-tricked-into-dying
tl;dr: The US and its allies and Israel proposed a fake ceasefire and got the Lebanese Foreign Ministry to get Nasrallah to agree – or at least set up a meeting to discuss it – thus drawing Nasrallah and his team out where they could be hit.
It has similarity with the Minsk agreements, which were signed and legal, with the intent to be tossed after the Zelensky election. With the consent of the Americans, when President Trump was in office and the war in Ukraine could have been avoided. Biden picked up where Trump left off.
Yup.
I posted my latest Substack on how this assassination was a plot over at Larry Johnson's Sonar21, and Larry responded directly to me "You're right!".
Listening to Larry talk with Pepe Escobar right now here:
Iran Strikes Back At Israel: What Comes Next? | Pepe Escobar Interview
And Pepe agrees with me: the statement by Jake Sullivan about how the US is coordinating with Israel on the Israeli retaliation is essentially a US declaration of war on Iran.