WATCH: President Trump jokes that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun can "have anything" after receiving glowing praise during their White House meeting.
PRESIDENT JOSEPH AOUN: "I've been looking forward to this visit for a long time. Thank you for meeting such a great president like yourself,"
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "That's a very nice thing. See, he knows how to get to me. He can have anything now. He can have anything."
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants strongly condemns the unacceptable Iranian attacks targeting the United Arab Emirates using missiles and drones. These actions constitute a blatant violation of the sovereignty of a brotherly state, as well as of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, and pose a serious threat to regional security and stability.
The Ministry expresses Lebanon’s full and unwavering solidarity with the leadership, government, and people of the United Arab Emirates. It reaffirms its support in the face of these attacks and affirms the UAE’s legitimate right to defend its territory, protect its security and stability, and ensure the safety of all those on its soil.
The Ministry also reiterates the need to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all Arab states, rejecting any interference in their internal affairs, and calls for an immediate end to these attacks in order to preserve security and stability in the region.
@DrSamirGeagea غلّطَت القوات الجسيمة هي لما وصّلت ميشال عون لسدّة الرئاسة والغلطة كانت كارثية وما بتنبلع وبتبقى نقطة سوداء بسجلّ القوات، وهيدي بتكون الغلطة الثانية والاكثر كارثية فالسلام لا وضعية مثالية له وهو لمن يجرؤ فقط، اذا القوات خذلونا كرمال فلان وفليتان فعلى الدنيا السلام. على أمل…
I spent 18 months working in American archives to collect hundreds of declassified U.S. documents pertaining to the Lebanese/Israeli May 17 agreement. I published the piece below after reading each one. For decades, the Lebanese have been told that the treaty was “Worse than Camp David”; that the Lebanese state surrendered to an Israeli diktat; that the United States colluded with Israel against Lebanon; and that Israel harbored irredentist claims on our land all the way to the Litani.
Nonsense—all of it. Israeli demands were, for the most part, security-driven. Simply put, Israel wanted Lebanon to prevent cross-borders attacks against her territories. Hardly unexpected considering the PLO's agency in the south since 1969. Even the late Joseph Samaha, not exactly a friend of Israel—he was the founder of Al-Akhbar, Hezbollah’s mouthpiece in Lebanon—acknowledged that Israeli conditions for withdrawal were mostly driven by security concerns in a piece he published in As-Safir on May 19, 1983 (p11 "احتمالات ما بعد الاتّفاق").
In addition to security concerns, Israel was seeking an honorable exit for her ally Saad Haddad and the normalization of relations with Lebanon. Nothing Israel obtained in the agreement threatened Lebanese sovereignty. What ultimately did destroy sovereignty was Syria’s securing full control over Lebanon, when Hafez al-Assad instructed his local minions, Nabih Berri and Walid Jumblatt, to oppose the treaty. They did—and what followed were the last forty years of sorrow.
Once again, Lebanon has a chance to establish peace with Israel. Once again, regional and local forces—Hezbollah, Berri, and Jumblatt—are working against peace. If they prevail now, as they did in 1983, the coming decades will repeat the horrors of the past.