Lebanon
“Israel and the Trump administration are concerned that a future deal in Syria could export the Iranian problem to Iraq and Lebanon,” according to an “Axios” report.
Amin Sherri and Muhammad Hasan Ra’d are Hezbollah members of the Lebanese Parliament, while Wafiq Safa is a Hezballah “interlocutor to the Lebanese security forces,” according to the Treasury Department.
Each party has an incentive to settle the territorial dispute so that international companies exploring waters will invest.
“Even in the Arab world, Hezbollah is designated as a terrorist organization,” says former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council Col. (res.) Dr. Shaul Shay, “so the correct policy would be to increase the pressure on the group’s financial sources.”
A four-day combat exercise is geared to simulate warfare in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon, and features F-35 jet fighters.
IDF OC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Amir Baram says “Hezbollah must understand that we will not allow it to realize the destructive ambitions of its Iranian patrons.”
As of 2005, the United States has given the Lebanese Armed Forces at least $2.29 billion in military aid.
Nabih Berri made an anti-Semitic remark four days after meeting in Beirut with U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), who is Jewish.
It was 22 stories deep, 2,500 feet long and featured air-conditioning, phone lines and rail tracks to serve as a staging ground for a cross-border invasion.
Charges against Ali Kourani, 34, consisted of providing support to the U.S.-designated terrorist entity.
Amid heightened regional tensions, Lebanese and Syrian media are focusing on the risk of an imminent confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah, or even a wider regional war.
Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt: Only 180,000 Palestinian refugees remained in Lebanon; Shebaa Farms is not Lebanese land.
