Israel’s decision to continue to occupy territory in southern Lebanon beyond the February 18 deadline came without a lot of official comment from the US. According to Israeli DM Israel Katz, however, the US gave them a “green light” to remain militarily in Lebanon indefinitely.
Israeli media was reporting around the deadline that the US was backing the continued occupation of five surveillance posts inside southern Lebanon. The US never directly confirmed that, however, and that Israel remains in Lebanon just came and went without official US comment.
The ceasefire ending the Israeli invasion of Lebanon was meant to provide a 60-day window for Israeli withdrawal, which would’ve ended January 26. The US guaranteed that Israel would be out by then, but then later endorsed extending the deadline to February 18. They similarly talked about February 18 being a firm deadline that would not be extended, but then stopped talking about it at all beyond that.

Israel started building the hilltop surveillance posts before the February 18 deadline, and Israeli FM Gideon Sa’ar said that the “strategic high points” would be necessary to retain temporarily, until the Lebanese Army has sufficient control of the south.
The temporary nature of those posts seems to be at considerable doubt from Katz’s comments. He no longer presented this as anything to do with Lebanese Army control of the area, and just maintains that it is “not time-dependent.” It appears Israel will be staying as long as it wants, and the US is comfortable with that idea.
Lebanon is not so keen on the continued occupation, as it’s condemned Israel staying in the area and urged the US and France, the initial guarantors of the ceasefire, to do something about it. France proposed sending its own troops to replace the Israelis, but Israel rejected that.
Adding to the Lebanese disquiet about Israel’s surveillance-focused occupation, the Lebanese Army announced that it had found a number of hidden surveillance devices in southern Lebanon since Israeli troops left the populated areas. Sensors and cameras were reportedly found hidden in trees and among rocks around the area.
In practice, the tree-cameras are probably less of a problem than the actual Israeli ground troops still in Lebanese territory for surveillance purposes. Yet even those cameras reflect a reality where getting Israel militarily out of Lebanon is only the first step toward ending the surveillance operation.
This site spends lots of time quoting Israeli officials telling us US policy. Israeli officials of course are big fans of Israel. They are not reliable sources.
Be nice if some US officials were speaking out about that but we don't hear a peep. Israel does whatever the fuck they want.
and all with the blessings of the US regardless D or R it is all the same, brainless and soulless beastly AI.
"Green Light" occupation "not time-dependent" of "strategic high points" "surveillance-focused?" …Got it. Where's Orwell when you need him?
Nothing but Zionist insecurity and coward-ness…!
Advanced democracies have been denigrated to third world Banana Republics ruled by brainless, soulless greedy and sadistic criminal AI on legs and steroids.
Look who rules the USA and the NATO ALLIES, all put in power by the same powers who control the main-stream media. Money and power sticks together.
We have reached third world Bana Republic government. We have brainless, characterless, criminal two legged AI greedy animals on steroids charge. Despicable dehumanized creatures, there are no words left.
The US is a hostile government that has very little to do with people who live within its internationally recognized area of jurisdiction. People living in US government demarcated territory do not happily support genocide in Gaza. war against Russia, or attempted domination of Latin America and Africa.
Trump received 28.8% of voting age population approval. An unknown portion of republican voters support genocide of Palestinians and aggression against people who live in Canada, Latin America, China, and Africa. I know quite a few Trump supporters and everyone of them advocated peace and cited that as their reason to vote for Trump.
The democrat received 28.1% of voting age votes, I know quite a few democrats and my impression is most of them have no idea there are Nazis in Ukraine or that their party is a gory, blood-lust partner to genocide of the indigenous people of Palestine. Many of these democrats are myopic day dreamers who consider themselves to be woke.
Assume that half of each party will continue to be brainwashed by CIA/USAID/NED propaganda in service to genocide and unending war; This means that approximately three-fourths of people living in the US are unreliable and reluctant cannon fodder for the Zionist Musk/Trump team, Something will give. Looking around the world at neoliberal totalitarian states such as the US reveals that the small percentage of genocidal war mongers in the US will eventually declare the rest of the people to be internal enemies of the US.
Yes, and each party's rulers know their bases, they have studied them, know what they want and don't want and they cater to those bases with their own specific talking points.
The exception were the Democrats in the last several years. They no longer knew their base at all. They created more and more tribes who demanded full attention for a time. On top of it they had a demented boss and a clueless giggling VP.
Enter Trump who took full advantage of that.
What is the difference between the support of the Biden administration to the zionist Netanyahu Israeli government and the support of the Trump administration to the zionist Netanyahu Israeli government?
There is none. Faces change but the same lawless neocon policy stays in place.
Since 1948 every president ahs supported Israel. If they first don't they soon change as has been the case. Anyone who resists fully will be assassinated.
True, though some have been less enthusiastic than others, shall we say … Ike, JFK, and Carter were probably some of the less enthusiastic ones …
Bush 1.
Bushit!!!
… And the assassination would be orchestrated by Israel MOSSAD…!
So, was JFK whacked because of insufficient devotion to the Zionist cause?
Partially yes but mostly because of his distain for the CIA and wanting world peace and not eternal wars.
The most obnoxious presence on the planet – bar none. Like it or not, the Earth would be a much more pleasant place to get up to in the morning without the state of Israel.
”Keep your friends close… And your enemies even closer!…”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/03/01/743691/Trump-to-approve-nearly–3-billion-in-arms-sales-to-Israel
”Lie, deny and Occupy?!”
Everyone needs a homeland! It is essential for all of us and it should be so…..
O-C -C -U-U-P-A-T-I-O-N!
Does not give credence to any nation!…
Lie, deny and occupy!…!….!
What if your friend just gave illegal immigrant squatters the "Green Light" to stay in your house indefinitely…?
All they do is lie.
That is not true. They are also passionately devoted to mass murder.
Solzhenitsyn described the intimate relationship between lying and mass murder.