This is
what US envoy Thomas Barrack is doing by exploiting the collective Lebanese
consciousness, sometimes by calling on them to emulate the “amazing” example of
the new Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (the former HTS leader known
as Abu Mohammad al-Julani), and other times by his open lie that Hezbollah
welcomed the Israeli occupation forces by scattering flowers in the 1970s.
He made such false claims in an interview with Al-Jadeed TV.
When the interviewer corrected him, he added that Hezbollah emerged as a result
of the events of the 1970s, which are well-known to everyone. The daily Israeli
attacks on the southerners at the time and the blatant American interference in
Lebanese affairs.
Commenting
on Barrack’s lie, journalist Pierre Abi Saab wrote on X, “This is Trump’s
culture and this is the Trump administration, a culture of domination,
arrogance, and colonial barbarism; a culture steeped in illiteracy, ignorance,
impudence, and absolute self-confidence, based on contempt for all rules and
norms, and a rejection of international legitimacy and international law. They
all come from the same intellectual stable!”
For his part, journalist Hassan Illaik wrote, “The idiot
Morgan Ortagus has been succeeded by an even idiot.”
It is often said “there is a world of difference between the
two” when comparing a seasoned sage with an evasive man. This is the case when
comparing Washington’s diplomats with Tehran’s diplomats, such as late Amir
Hossein Abdollahian, who moved from one country to another defending the
dignity of the peoples of West Asia until his honorable martyrdom.
As for the likes of Washington’s notorious diplomats, whom
there is no room to mention here, as each is more devious than the next, like
Thomas Barrack, whose record is replete with gambling, financial and moral
scandals, but they come to us to preach about honor and dignity.
Observers
have expressed their fear about the path the situation in Lebanon could take
after Barrack’s departure, particularly given his threat that Washington would
withdraw its hand from “mediation” if Lebanon did not abide by the clause
requiring Hezbollah to disarm. This could lead to Lebanon being isolated
internationally and Arab-wide as a punishment for its well–calculated stance.
The US envoy reiterated, “My role is a political mediator to
positively influence the parties.”
The
irony is that Barrack has never been a “mediator,” but a mouthpiece for Israel
as he himself stated, “We are in Lebanon to help bring about peace, but there
is a timetable, and time is running out.”
In parallel, a hostile infantry force of approximately 20
Israeli soldiers penetrated from the vicinity of the border town of Abbasiyeh
toward the Rihana Bari area in the Mari plain, at dawn on Wednesday, searching
several homes, and interrogated a number of Lebanese residents and Syrian
workers.
For more than an hour and a half, Parliament Speaker Nabih
Berri presented Barrack with detailed figures on the Lebanese citizens killed
by Israel, since November 27, reminding him of what was happening in Syria.
Berri stressed that as long as the situation remained as it
was, it would be difficult for anyone to raise the issue of disarming the
Resistance, especially since tens of thousands of Lebanese remain displaced as
a result of the ongoing aggression, and preventing the southerners from
returning to their demolished villages to reconstruct them.
Barrack also met Druze leader Walid Jumblatt to dissect what
is happening in Syria, claiming that al-Sharaa has only 25,000 soldiers and
that they are incapable of threatening Lebanon.
According to Axios, Barrack arranged an Israeli-Syrian
meeting in Paris on Thursday to formulate “urgent security understandings”
regarding southern Syria.
Courtesy: Tehran Times
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