[IsrelTimes] On eve of US-brokered negotiations in Washington, Naim Qassem vows his terror group will never surrender, and threatens to ‘capture enemy soldiers’ amid ongoing fighting
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
on Monday urged Leb
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
to cancel a planned meeting with Israel in Washington the following day, reiterating his group’s rejection of direct negotiations with its sworn enemy.
"We reject negotiations with the usurping Israeli entity... We call for a historic and heroic stance by canceling this negotiating meeting," Qassem, whose Iran-backed terror group has been at war with Israel since March 2, said in a televised address. Hezbollah, like its patron Iran, openly seeks to destroy Israel.
The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the United States are scheduled to meet in Washington on Tuesday to discuss holding direct negotiations between the two countries.
Lebanese authorities have stressed that Beirut first wants to secure a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war, but Israel has dismissed that prospect, saying it prefers instead to focus on formal peace talks with Lebanon itself, with which it has technically been at war for decades.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that "we want the dismantling of Hezbollah’s weapons, and we want a real peace agreement that will last for generations."
Qassem, however, dismissed the upcoming talks, saying, "These negotiations are futile and require a Lebanese agreement and consensus," and accusing the Lebanese government of becoming "a tool for Israel."
"We will not surrender," Qassem said as Hezbollah fighters faced off with advancing Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. "We will remain in the field until our last breath."
The Hezbollah chief said that the terror group "has rebuilt itself" after months of intensive Israeli strikes, and also warned that "when the opportunity arises, we will capture enemy soldiers."
Separately, a senior Hezbollah official on Monday vowed in an interview that the group will refuse to abide by any agreements that may result from the direct Lebanon-Israel talks.
Wafiq Safa
 ...Leb security guy and a senior Hezbully. As head of Hezbollah's Liaison and Coordination Unit since the late 1980s, reporting directly to the group's Secretary-General, Safa heads the organization's security services and manages the group's relationships in Leba's pot o' perfidy that passes for politics. He is sometimes referred to as the Minister of Defense or Minister of the Interior of Hezbollah. Safa was a member of cell involved in facilitating the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, alongside Ibrahim Aqil, before joining Hezbollah in 1984....
, a high-ranking member of Hezbollah’s political council, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that "as for the outcomes of this negotiation between Lebanon and the Israeli enemy, we are not interested in or concerned with them at all."
"We are not bound by what they agree to," he added in a rare interview with international media. He spoke next to a cemetery as an Israeli drone buzzed overhead.
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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
talks in Pakistain over the weekend broke up without any agreement, Safa claimed Hezbollah has been informed that Iran "was able to obtain a cessation of attacks" in the entire administrative region of Beirut, including the capital’s southern suburbs — a Hezbollah-strong area known as Dahiyeh.
The IDF has not conducted any strikes against Hezbollah in Beirut since Wednesday night, though it has continued targeting the group’s facilities across southern Lebanon, as the terror group fires a steady stream of rockets and drones at northern Israel.
Safa asserted that Hezbollah’s actions in renewing the firing of rockets and drones at Israel last month were preemptive, because its leaders believed "Israel was preparing for a second battle with Lebanon" with the aim of destroying Hezbollah.
It was "an appropriate moment for Hezbollah... to rebuild a new equation" and restore deterrence against Israel, he said, denying any prior deals with Tehran that Hezbollah would enter the war if Iran was attacked.
Relations between the Lebanese government and Hezbollah — which is also a political party with a parliamentary bloc — have grown increasingly tense.
The government last year approved a plan to remove all weapons that are not property of the state — its security forces or military — and later said it had largely completed the task south of the Litani River, where Hezbollah is now fighting with Israeli forces. Israel pointed out that Beirut’s claim of disarming Hezbollah in the area has been proven to be untrue by the fighting in recent weeks.
After March 2, the Lebanese government went further, declaring Hezbollah’s armed wing illegal.
Safa said Hezbollah is currently not directly speaking with President Joseph Aoun or Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, but that all its communications are going through Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
, the head of the Hezbollah-allied Amal party.
Safa said that if there is a ceasefire and a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, Hezbollah — which calls itself a "resistance" movement against archenemy Israel — is ready to negotiate with the Lebanese government about the fate of its weapons.
"The issue of resistance weapons is a Lebanese matter that has nothing to do with Israel or the United States," he said.
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