r/lebanon

I said it from day 1, people will take them in, feed them, care for them... and the moment it's over they will turn on these same people spit on them, call them sohyouniye, attack them and declare victory for Iran.

We cannot live with hezb al shaytan.

Everyone talks about culture shock in terms of food, accents, or social norms. Mine was something else entirely.

When I started my graduate school in North America, I met students who had their whole lives mapped out. Not just the next semester or even the next few years. I mean 5-year plans, 10-year plans, 20-year plans, retirement plans. They talked about the future like it was something stable, something they were allowed to trust.

I was honestly shocked.

I was finishing my graduate work here in the summer of 2006. I still remember leaving my lab one day in July like it was any other normal day but I only returned back in August for one afternoon, defended my thesis in an empty room with just my committee members there, and that was it. I did not get the chance to say goodbye to my friends. I would not see some of them again for years.

That experience stayed with me. Some people grow up planning their future like it is a given. Others grow up knowing everything can change overnight.

We have the right to dream about our future. To plan for a peaceful, prosperous future without war constantly interrupting life.

Enough with these wars. Survival is not enough. We deserve a future too.

hezbots love to repost the same Israel radical to try to defend Hezbollahs and justify the mess they dragged us in.

well here's my daily reminder about Hezbollah -

"Our project, which we have no option other than due to our ideological beliefs, is... the project of the Islamic State and the rule of Islam, and Lebanon should not be a single Islamic Republic! Rather, it should be part of the greater Islamic Republic that is governed by the Master of the Time, and his rightful deputy, the jurist leader, Imam Khomeini."

BEIRUT — The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors in Washington held their first phone conversation on Friday, marking the first official contact between the two countries since 1983. The Lebanese presidency issued a statement on the matter.

“On the basis of the initiative launched by President of the Republic General Joseph Aoun, which is focused on diplomatic efforts toward the announcement of a cease-fire and the start of direct negotiations with Israel, and following recent international and Arab contacts made by President Aoun in response to the escalation of Israeli attacks against Lebanon, the U.S. administration has decided to task the State Department with playing a mediating role between Lebanon and Israel,” the presidency said.

“Within this framework, and in accordance with President Aoun’s instructions to the Lebanese ambassador in Washington, a phone call took place at 9 p.m. Beirut time — the first of its kind between Lebanon, represented by its ambassador in Washington Nada Hamadeh Moawad, and Israel, represented by its ambassador in Washington Yechiel Leiter, with the participation of U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, who was present in Washington,” the statement added.

“During this exchange, an agreement was reached to hold an initial meeting next Tuesday at the U.S. State Department headquarters to discuss the announcement of a ceasefire and the date for launching negotiations between Lebanon and Israel under American auspices,” the presidency concluded.

Following a day of deadly Israeli strikes on the capital and across the country, along with statements from Tel Aviv and Washington indicating that Lebanon would not be involved in cease-fire negotiations with Tehran, the situation shifted. By early Thursday evening, Israel agreed to enter into direct negotiations with Lebanon.