Lebanese President receives ambassadors of the Quintet (5) Committee

Beirut | February 17, 2025

General Joseph Aoun, President of the Lebanese Republic, received today the ambassadors of the Quintet Committee in Lebanon, which includes the State of Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the United States of America and the French Republic.

(These are the members of the Lebanese ceasefire committee)

During the meeting, the latest developments in Lebanon, especially the Israeli withdrawal from the south, were reviewed, and the continued support for the Quintet and the full commitment to stand by the Lebanese state were emphasized.

❗️Report by Israeli media about the IDF withdrawal and the occupation of parts of South Lebanon

The IDF confirms troops will remain deployed to five strategic positions in southern Lebanon beyond tomorrow's deadline to withdraw as part of a ceasefire agreement, and details where they are located.

The United States has authorized the IDF to remain in the five points, though it is not clear yet how long troops will stay there. The military says it will stay there as long as the Israeli political echelon tells it to.

At the five positions, the IDF has constructed military posts that will be manned by troops.

The posts are located at: a hill near Labbouneh, across from the the Israeli border town of Shlomi; the Jabal Blat peak, across from Zar'it; a hill across from Avivim and Malkia; a hill across from Margaliot; and a hill across from Metula.

None of the posts are located within built-up areas of Lebanon. The IDF will be withdrawing from all Lebanese border villages and towns tomorrow.

The IDF has also ramped up its defenses on the Israeli side of the border, with several new army posts, one in front of every Israeli border community; better surveillance capabilities, including more cameras, radars, and censors; and triple the number of troops compared to before the war.

The military expects Hezbollah supporters to carry out protests as residents of the south Lebanon border villages return to their homes. Troops by then will not be located in any of the towns, so there should be no direct friction, according to the IDF.

The IDF, however, will prevent suspects from approaching the Israeli border and the newly established army posts at the five strategic positions.

Over the last few days, the IDF says it carried out "intensive activity" in southern Lebanon, removing any last threats it could find, from caches of Hezbollah weapons to tunnel infrastructure. The troops operated in areas up to 8 kilometers inside Lebanon.

The IDF says that the area close to the Israeli border is essentially entirely cleared of Hezbollah infrastructure and weapons, after troops in the past months scanned nearly every home, under every tree, and in every valley.

🇱🇧 Lebanon extends the ban of Iranian airline planes indefinitely, after it was set to expire tomorrow.

PM and president ordered to crack down on any attempt to close the airport road and to ramp up security at the airport for all landing planes

🇱🇧 The authority to inspect goods and bags coming from abroad is the authority of customs first, before other agencies. Customs is affiliated with the Ministry of Finance.

Why was the Minister of Finance absent from a meeting to discuss issues related to the airport?

They know well there are many Iranian officials that need to arrive to the funeral and they know well there are hundreds of Iranians that want to come

This is literally war on Hezb by the Lebanese president and Hezb continues to act and want to believe that the president is a partner not a foe.

The president continues to prove to us, why the U.S.A was this serious about getting him elected.

The only way for Aoun to have been able to remove legitimacy from Hezbullah is to have secured a full Israeli withdrawal.

Yet he failed to have the U.S secure that. He failed and his failure has reignited the legitimacy of resistance as a key to security when the state is cowardly.

He ensured that Hezbullah has a pretext to stay armed, to liberate the Lebanese hills and to create deterrence

For Gods sake understand, the U.S. cares about Israel's security only and doesn't have a partner other than Israel.

Any help it gives you is when it ensures it will be in favor of Israel.

Lebanon will never be Israeli or American, and Lebanon will never submit. Screw you and screw your submission

And remember, Aoun promised the release of Lebanese prisoners in Israel too by 18-Feb

The White House also announced a promise to discuss this which Aoun didn't follow-up or demand.

Ffs there isn't even a statement by the PM and president from today's first cabinet meeting about the withdrawal and the 5 points

📸 Additional IDF demolition of civilian houses in Yaroun

📰 Hezbullah handed Saad al-Hariri an invitation to the officials gathering at the Sayyed Hassan Funeral.

He is one of many political friends, contacts, and foes to receive one.

Sayyed Hassan went to his house in 2005 to offer condolences when Hariri was murdered

📸 Sayyed Hassan also went to Hariri's grave to pay respects after his murder.

Hezbullah was always the only moral in Lebanon (including some others but few)

📸 Another photos from the visit

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FLLF - Israel's Little Secret (75 pages)


"Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners" is a secret group that first appeared in the 1980's in Lebanon claiming a series of car bomb attacks against Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. And throughout the 1980's it wrecked havoc in Lebanon, paving the road to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. So who are they, and what role did the state of Israel play regarding a secret group that killed 600+ civilians and injured another 2000+ civilians.

Part of the Abstract:

In the midst of the chaos that shrouded Lebanon during its civil war, a mysterious group emerged from under the ashes carrying the banner of war. The Front of Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners rose during Lebanon’s darkest years advocating the total expulsion of all foreign forces. Yet throughout those years until recently, they were a mirage whose reality was never determined...."

Not by the channel, this is a scanned book by a different author.

This book, published in late 1980's, documents in 600+ pages the daily Israeli violations of Lebanon's sovereignty, in air at sea and on land, aggression on Lebanese civilians, and the Israeli attacks on Lebanese infrastructure and assets.

The book also describes in later chapters the official Lebanese response to these violations through sending complaints to the UN or in speeches. Its a 1,512 page book. [Arabic Only]

‼️ Two Israeli airstrikes targeted the Lahad Bridge between Al-Khardali and Al-Aishiyeh

None of you did it. Useless.

🇱🇧 The government approved the ministerial statement with some amendments and reservations by some ministers.

Soon we'll know the official stance on Hezbullah, Israel, and the arms. Will it be vague or clear.

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#admin long thread. Worth reading

There was a very important point mentioned yesterday in the speech of Sheikh Naim Qassem that highlighted clearly what we have seen in the past two months, that Hezbullah has stopped at the commands of its leadership any armed action that is categorized as offensive and has shifted to a new temporarily form that is much needed in this phase of history (short term) that will be capable of dealing with a tide that it cannot control due to the results of the war in terms of how it affected them and the change in the Middle East that took place overnight and placed Hezbollah as a loner which no wall to lay its back on. He said "at this time, it is the responsibility of the state"

Move forward and your loss might be irreversible, move back, and you will fall into a ditch as deep as time has existed. This dilemma has been hinted in the first speeches of Qassem, where he said that resistance has many forms, and that it is the leadership that defines what form is suitable. These words are not empty, but highlight a necessity to adapt because of the lack of popular support facing wars when the majority has either decided to surrender, act as if not concerned, or decided to reconcile with the US and Israel.

The matter here is not that Hezbollah has abandoned armed resistance, not at all. It is simply, that under current circumstances in Lebanon, the fall of Bashar's Syria and the ever growing anger and criminal actions by the majority with Lebanese, your hands are tied and in your hand is not the golden sword you had once. You hold a sword of steel in front of furnace and this furnace is operated by your enemy. Gold can melt, but you get my point.

I do believe, had the general Sunni Muslim atmosphere in the Arab world been better towards Palestine and not limited to submission and TikTok videos, the heavy burden Hezbollah is feeling in Lebanon could have been eased because they would have found nations that are willing to voice support to them in order to remedy the injuries and then help them in the post-war recovery in terms of aid for the people, rebuilding, etc. However unfortunately, Sunnis have always been this weak despite being in great masses that if each carried a bucket of water they could have drowned Israel. They are useless masses and the slaves of their kings and leaders, no matter how corrupt. I'm not sectarian and my family is mixed with Sunnis, however I do not expect from someone who say "R.A killed R.A and both are in heaven" to be a person that can stand-up at the right time for the right thing.

The issue today, that the 2024 war is not like the 2006, except in one point only. Before i mention that, do not believe anyone that have told you that they supported Hezbollah in 2006 yet they did not in 2023-2024. Those who supported them never flipped sides, unless when they were corrupted by ego, money, or hate.

For this war, that was inevitable but unfrankly did not go as expected, I have done many threads that I'm satisfied with in terms of knowledge to people and have tackled the causes of the war, the results, the ceasefire, and the conditions that the war was fought under. You can find them under #admin. They are really helpful.

I sometimes think, how do I know that I am not wrong in what i believe in and did not fall into the same delusion that others did. Its not easy to answer but i think asking this question is a good indicator and that my conscious is clear about good and evil, and I'm able to know when bad is done regardless if its from the people I support or no.

The purpose of this is post is to tackle two topics mainly: What are the challenges facing Hezbollah today and in the future, and how do I assume that Hezbollah will act today and in the future. This won't be a professionally written article because I dont have the time, but it will be satisfactory. My purpose of writing is because of my need to put my thoughts in words to deeper my understanding in what i believe in, and in the hope that at least one person will benefit from them in his life.

And that alone, is an achievement. I say so because I feel useless in what i have to contribute in life, and something is missing in me that i cannot fulfill and I don't know if i ever will, so these explanations are how i can do my part for now.

Back to our point about the only similarly that exists between the two wars, is its continuation after it through Lebanese. If you remember, after 2006 Hezbullah faced two harsh years where clashes took place in Beirut and then 7-May incident in 2008 when the Lebanese government decided to confiscate Hezbullah's landline system. Hezbullah is always blamed for this, an "internal war" yet everyone forget that the Druze leader Walid Joumblat confessed it was his doing and that he was asked and abetted by the USA itself. Hezbullah reacted but did not initiate.

However even after 7-May, the Lebanese security forces continued to tighten the situation against them and it reached a level when the EU-trained and Sunni led information branch would hack into Hezbullah and there was a real behind the scenes information war between them. The similaries today are beyond doubtable and we saw the first signs with how the Lebanese army leaked his entrance to a strategic Hezbullah base and how they confronted and attached a protest Hezbullah called for and gassed them during a speech by their MPs. There is will again to use the state against Hezbullah.

The situation is harsher now, because not because Hezbullah is in a weaker point from a military perspective, but because Syria has collapsed and Iran is not as rich as it was in 2006. Additionally, there is less Arab and Gulf incentives to help in rebuilding. Hezbullah cannot afford it, Iran cannot afford enough or has the ability to send enough funds, and the Arabs are not willing to help unless Hezbullah submits and dis-arms. So not only now is Hezbullah surrounded by a non-friendly regime in Syria and an Israel that is at the height of its power and foreign support, Hezbullah is surrounded by a Lebanese state that is not willing to cooperate and protect it and is trying to blackmail it to rebuild people's homes.

Do you know that the blackmailing and pressure being put on Hezbullah is not only by pressuring its people who lost their homes, but through eyes. Yes, literal eye cornea's have been banned from being exported to Lebanon for weeks and months after the pager attack in September? They made sure that those who lost their eyes and had a chance of recovery did not get it! Do you understand how cynical and evil and very very determined will to harm this community has reach?

So the present of Hezbullah is very complicated because the challanges have all piled up, and the pressure had honestly made Sheikh Qassem grow in these two months more than 10 years. It shows on his face, and have noticed the Sujod mark on his head. He is praying alot for God to support him in his duty because the challanges are very hard. I'd almost say, what Sheikh Naim has faced and will face, is almost harsher than what Sayyed Hassan has faced in decades.

The elements of power, support, money, and all have been largely been compromised and Sheikh Naim has the duty to rebuild all with a very far Iran, a lost Syria, and a hostile environment with an Israeli occupation and loss of Lebanese state support through the ministerial statement. Sheikh Naim has to rebuild Hezbullah's military weapons, liberate the 5 hills, rebuild Hezbullah's leadership, rebuild Hezbullah's ground forces and units, find the spies inside Hezbullah, find the technical breaches in Hezbullah, and navigate the hostile internal politics in Lebanon. People do not understand how hard it is to do this.

That, and Israel is getting the tech it needs, the money, the weapons, the aid, etc etc. The balance of power was bad back then? It will only ever grow. At the end of the day, non-state actors were never destined to defeat states, but to make the states pay a price to back off and compromise. Palestine will not be liberated unless Arab states join the war, and commit.