Israel-Lebanon permanent ceasefire has been accepted, Biden says

“Under the deal reached today, effective at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow, local time, the fighting across the Lebanese Israeli border will end,” Biden said in the White House Rose Garden.

“This is designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities,” he added. “What is left of Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations will not be allowed, I emphasize, will not be allowed, to threaten the security of Israel again.”

Can never tell if Biden is saying what he means to say, or his mind went on a walkabout...

But it sounds like that's less of an equal ceasefire and more that Israel will restart if they hear anyone complain about Israel's actions...

Like, Biden is literally threatening them, that if they threaten Israel that's enough for a war...

And he probably legit believes this is fair and equal

The Israeli army has again threatened to imminently attack several buildings in southern Beirut, telling residents in the vicinity to flee just hours before a ceasefire is set to take effect.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/26/live-israel-bombards-lebanon-as-ceasefire-talks-continue?update=3350895
8 minutes after the update about the ceasefire deal...
- Gotta get one last war crime in.
"Fair and equal" for a military industrial complex that has waged war its entire existence is about as "fair and equal" as a master and their slave.
And he probably legit believes this is fair and equal
Why should it be? It's a ceasefire deal, not splitting candy between kids. You accept or impose the conditions of the deal based on your position and capabilities on the battlefield.
Biden's probably patting himself on the back for "bringing peace" to a conflict he helped create and make worse. Helped lose the election to a fascist too. I hope history remembers him for the complete murderous idiot he is.
Well he's basically saying that if they break the ceasefire again, they get the hose again
They're allowed to "complain about Israel". They aren't allowed to fire missiles or wage attacks.
Hope that clears things up for you.
- They aren’t allowed to fire missiles or wage attacks.
  I know Bibi may think of indiscriminate attacks on civilians as "just a threat" but very very few others do...

Hey, look, that's white phosphorus, it's a war crime on the featured image! Yay normalization of barbarity UwU

Is there an image available with a higher resolution? Because you can't really see what is being bombed in the picture. Using white phosphorous is only a war crime if it is used close to civilians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munition#International_law
- It's been replaced by a picture of Joe Biden, so I dunno. That said:
  Human Rights Watch: Lebanon: Israel’s White Phosphorous Use Risks Civilian Harm
  Amnesty International: Lebanon: Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate
  Israel has no credibility when it comes to war crimes against civilians.
- This is the image. (I use imagus or hover zoom which enlarges images all over the web upon hover)
  There do appear to be civilian buildings with lights on in the image.
- Could also just be thermite

Sooo...what about Gaza, Biden? What about Palestine, Biden? Eh? Eh??

GOOD NEWS IS NEVER ENOUGH! WE DEMAND EVERYTHING BE FIXED AT THE SAME TIME! RAAAAHHHH
- Nothing is fixed. There are no penalties whatsoever for Israel if they break this ceasefire, and that is by design. Israel wants to pause and reload. When they are ready, they will find an excuse and start right back up. They want that land, and they are going to get it with our help.
What about Sudan Biden? What about mexico biden? What about DRC biden? What about Myanmar Biden? Eh eh eh ??!!
Is this really how your mind operates?
- Are you really denying Biden clear complicity with Israel crimes?
- This is what people acting in bad faith do; constantly moving the goalposts so that they are never satisfied with the people who they never intended to give credit in the first place. There could be a ceasefire in Gaza tomorrow and people would find some new shit to gripe about.
  Welcome to the hamster wheel of modern political hackery.
Hamas is free to agree to a ceasefire at any time of their choosing, contingent mostly on their willingness to hand over the remaining hostages. Allah knows they've had many opportunities thus far, so what's stopping them?
- Hamas proposed a full prisoner swap as early as Oct 8th, and agreed to the US proposed UN Permanent Ceasefire Resolution. Additionally, Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.
  https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-07-23/rivals-hamas-and-fatah-sign-a-declaration-to-form-a-future-government-as-war-rages-in-gaza
  This isnt about the hostages, this is Israel engaging in Genocide to eradicate and forcibly displace the Palestinian people. Gaza has never stopped being under Israeli occupation since 1967. Hamas only exists because of the Apartheid Occupation of Israel and the daily violence that has subjected Palestinians to for generations. Israel has always been the obstacle for peace, and has been the one preventing a ceasefire.
- This like saying Ukraine is free to agree to Russians and make huge concessions
- Hey, do you just speak your mind with no idea of what's actually happening?

I admit I did not believe both sides would agree when I read this was close yesterday.

Well you were basically right. The ceasefire lasted less than a day.
- Hooray?
- Got a source for this? Last I saw the ceasefire seems to still be holding, if tenuously

It's white phosphorus if I'm not wrong. Used for 'spotting targets' aka committing war crimes.
- I... remember that level.
- Could also just be thermite which has a similar burning metal look

I understand that Lebanon has to look out for themselves and recover from the horrific terrorist pager attacks and civilian apartment building bombings of Israel, but this isn't good for Gaza. Now Israel is free to complete their genocide without opposition =( Everyone needs to participate in BDS. We need to pressure Israel in other ways now.

Hezbollah is not lebanon. Fuck them.
- The pager attack killed children and Lebanese civilians, i guess fuck them too.

A decision to instantly save money, save economies, save lives and people's blood, save the climate, and start talking like humans instead of luanching metals into each other. I hate wars and the people who profit from destruction of the planet and mass bloodsheding of civilians. Israel's war crimes fully sponsored, supported and funded by the US have shown their true image oppressing and genociding whom they illegally colonize.
Their hypocrasy made putin look good taking over Ukraine, and legitimized China's intent to take over Taiwan by so many levels. You don't have the right to defend injustice and what you colonize from others wether your name was Israel, Russia, or China. and everyone is sick of hearing about those Western values then seeing them on display as ethnic cleansing and genocide against oppressed stateless people in a ethnostate aparthied.

What is in this thumbnail picture? I can't see it in the article.

How much of Lebanese land is Isreal occupying now?

The short answer is about the same as yesterday.
The ceasefire defines a 60 day window for them to gradually withdraw (at an agreed rate), while Hezbollah moves away to the north and the Lebanese military move into the south.

I sort of recall that these hezbowlers and their friends eeeseeess pieces removed the thinking part from one of our comrades in the media. It's been a weird sort of war. Accordingly Israel has actually murdered thousands of children, women and other innocent people including members of the media. The war was started by an attack from the loosing party. Israel shot and killed a woman Journalist named Shirin Abu Akhala may 2022 this before the war really started. Maybe she knew something the rest of us didn't about the incoming war? Now the entire country has been erased apparently with a small portion of the population remaining. So now is the right time to stop? 😞🛑. I mean sure it should stop. But like we all thought it was time to stop right after it began and the reports started coming in about innocent people being murdered. Then came images of total destruction and murder by drone like remote extermination. Anyway, Trump is an idiot, so if a smart person didn't stop the war, maybe a total retard can?

So the clusterfuck Hezbollah - Lebanese government will continue.

They were never going to eradicate them entirely. But their weight in Lebanon has certainly been reduced. Even more if they break the ceasefire again
- Their approval among there base of shias has only gone up since the conflict started, there approval among non shias has remained constant. Your assuming that Lebanese view the situation as western media portrays it with hezbollah as terrorists and the ones to blame for the destruction but:
  Seventy-eight percent of Lebanese respondents said Israel's onslaught of Gaza was a "terrorist act", while only 11 percent viewed Hezbollah's attacks on northern Israel as "terrorism".
  This jump in approval among there base is despite them being in government and a horrific economic situation in Lebanon, that's how much the shia in south Lebanon hate israel and its genocide in Gaza.

Open diplomacy at least in this case is temporarily stopping death. This is something to be celebrated! Good on Biden for doing this. Why cant Biden do the same for Ukraine?

“And over the next 60 days, Israel will gradually withdraw its remaining forces.”
Guess who's not willing to withdraw their forces back to their own territory.
- "we are already in our own territory, why should we withdraw"
- Hizbollah?
- I don't think they have a choice specially if we cut funding for Israel. We are forcing them to stop we should be doing the same with Ukraine and Russia. Peace is attainable for sure! Also they are only withdrawing from Lebanon what about Gaza?