... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
warned Tuesday that the ongoing trend of near-daily Israeli strikes in southern Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....''cannot continue.''
''Everything has a limit,'' Qassem said on Hezbollah's al-Manar television.
He claimed that the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon only applies to southern Lebanon, suggesting that disarming Hezbollah and other enforcement mechanisms should not apply to areas north of the Litani River.
He reiterated that Hezbollah will not disarm, defying the Lebanese government's efforts to collect the terror group's weapons, which Qassem said are needed for self-defense.
Washington is pushing to cut off Hezbollah's funding sources while also pressing the Lebanese government to disarm the Iran-backed terror group. Qassem complained that the US is trying to force the country to make concessions to Israel with no commitments offered in return.
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''America— is putting pressure on the government to make concessions without any reciprocal commitments or guarantees— and wants to give Israel free rein,'' Qassem said. ''The government's role is not to listen to American diktats and begin implementing them.''
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