INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
SOUTH LEBANON - On his first working day after being elected president, President Joseph Aoun called for binding parliamentary consultations
representatives of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, the US and France.Meanwhile, Hezbollah-Amal Movement duo, in addition to the Marada Movement
and the Socialist Party would apparently nominate Mikati unlike the Free Patriotic Movement, the Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb
Party.Several prominent Sunni figures have expressed their dissatisfaction with Samir Geagea, the head of the Lebanese Forces, nominating MP
Fouad Makhzoumi to head the government
They affirm that it is unacceptable for a Christian leader to impose the nomination of the prime minster.Since the 1990s, after the end of
the civil war and the signing of the Taif Agreement, political sectarianism has given the presidency of the republic to the Maronites; the
speaker of the parliament to the Shiites; and the post of prime minister to the Sunnis.Although the Taif Agreement has not distributed
ministries among the sects, customs imposed the rotation of the 4 sovereign ministries (foreign affairs, interior, finance, and defense)
among the four major sects (Maronites, Sunnis, Shiites, and Orthodox)
2014, when his gunmen attacked Lebanese army positions in Arsal, on the northeastern Lebanese border with Syria, killing about 20 soldiers
the ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement, especially since the enemy under the pretext of avoiding a repetition of the
October 7 scenario, is following an expansionist doctrine aiming at securing a wide buffer zone on its borders.An article in Maariv has
important lesson learned after October 7 is the need to create buffer zones behind our borders, like the security belts that were recently
It is not clear whether the ceasefire will continue
the enemy did not just procrastinate in withdrawing, but continued its violations, carrying out bombings inAl-Jabin and Aita al-Shaab
It also launched a raid on the vicinity of Tayr Dibba, killing five citizens and wounding others
It then continued targeting fire engines, which collided with a car, leading to the killing of two other citizens.Amos Hochstein, the US
