Introductions to the evening news broadcasts for Wednesday 3/6/2024
* Introduction to the NBN TV news bulletin
The American envoy, Amos Hockstein, presented what he had in mind and heard from Lebanon what it should hear, provided that the discussion has a connection through the Lebanese response to his proposals and the American answers to which Lebanon must obtain answers.
In this regard, Prime Minister Najib Mikati revealed that there will be contact with Hockstein in the coming hours, either by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri or by Mikati, to find out the latest developments in the proposal related to the Southern Front.
In connection with the continuation of the aggression against the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, President Nabih Berri presented today the political and field developments with the Commander of the UNIFIL Forces, Major General Arold Lazaro.
In addition, the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council confirmed, after a meeting of its legal and executive bodies, that the resistance founded by Imam Sayyed Musa al-Sadr in defense of Lebanon and all the Lebanese has today become a national guarantee for preserving Lebanon’s sovereignty and wealth and deterring aggression against it. It stressed that incitement against it serves the goals of the Israeli enemy lurking evil in Lebanon.
In this regard, the Council noted the positions of Speaker Berri, and also saluted the position of the Lebanese government, which was expressed in what was issued by Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
In addition, Washington’s intention to present a draft resolution in the Security Council for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza emerged, as the United States modified the wording of a draft resolution for the UN Security Council to support an immediate ceasefire for approximately six weeks in Gaza, after Washington had previously opposed the use of the word ceasefire. It used its veto power against three draft Security Council resolutions in the same framework.
According to what nbn has learned, matters are still in the negotiation stage between Washington and the rest of the Security Council members, and the process of giving and responding is continuing.
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* Introduction to the MTV news bulletin
The military picture in the south is still ambiguous, while the presidential picture has become more than clear. The border front is awaiting the results of the visit of Amos Hochstein, who does not yet have a clear answer from Hezbollah regarding his proposals. But it is clear that Washington will do everything in its power to prevent the expansion of the Israeli war towards Lebanon, while Israel has not yet dropped the option of launching a military strike against Hezbollah. Although the party realizes this, it is still maneuvering to evade a bitter entitlement for it, which is being removed from the southern border. In this context, a remarkable position emerged from the Maronite bishops, as they demanded, following their monthly meeting, the concerned local parties to put an end to the harm suffered by the people of the south. Presidentially, the Moderation Bloc initiative is faltering, not to say that it has completely failed. Hezbollah booby-trapped the initiative as expected, as it insisted on its candidate, Suleiman Franjieh, and stressed that it could not elect a president who did not protect the back of the resistance. This means that we have returned presidentially to square one, and that the bloc’s initiative was met with a big “no” from Hezbollah… But before detailing the diaries, we stop at the passage of five months since Hezbollah opened the southern front with Israel, a front that was said to support Gaza and relieve it. What has been its outcome to date? The most prominent figures are detailed by Marianne Zwein in this report.
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* Introduction to Al-Manar TV news bulletin
The American Security Council returned with a draft ceasefire after the Zionist genocidal war on the Gaza Strip blackened its electoral face.
He returned without the veto that he had raised for months in the face of the global consensus on the demand to stop the war, protecting the Israeli killing machine from any global pressure or accountability, and stressing that he is the basis of this massacre and not just a partner in it.
Due to a need in Joe Biden’s electoral calculations and his inability to bend the Palestinian will to negotiating steadfastness derived from field steadfastness, the American administration resorted to the Security Council trick, entitled a truce for six weeks and the release of all hostages, as reported by American media familiar with the amended draft submitted to the Security Council.
While political pressures are at their peak, field crime remains the same. Zionist bombing and raids with American weapons left dozens of martyrs and wounded civilians trapped between starvation and death, while all Gazans were digging, with the patient fingers and forearms of the resistance, a clear path towards the inevitable coming victory.
The same situation is in southern Lebanon, which supports its people in Gaza and their resistance, and consoles them with their great sacrifices. The day of the southerners was baptized with the wedding of martyrdom of steadfast civilians and martyred mujahideen. The villages of Hula, Bint Jbeil, and Tayrdaba witnessed large crowds, bid farewell to their martyrs, and affirmed their choice to resist until the goals were achieved.
The missiles and marches of the Islamic Resistance reached their targets in response to the Zionist attacks on the steadfast villages and their civilian homes. They hit the Metulla site with a dive plane and hit it accurately, in addition to targeting several sites in the Shebaa Farms with appropriate missiles.
With appropriate naval missiles, dear Yemen supported the people of Gaza. Its military forces targeted an American ship in the Gulf of Aden, achieving precise hits, as confirmed by their spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, who renewed the pledge in the name of the Yemeni people and their religious and humanitarian duty to continue targeting all aggressors until the aggression against the Palestinians stops and the siege is lifted. ..
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* Introduction to the OTV news bulletin
Despite continued attempts, the truce negotiations in Gaza are faltering, at least so far. This is what is evident in the last hours from the American statements, and from the positions of the Israeli and Palestinian sides.
Meanwhile, Lebanon is in the waiting box, after its files were forcibly linked to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, according to the summary of the lightning visit made by Amos Hochstein to Beirut, noting that in the last hours he completed his mission in Israel, while the breach is postponed.
As for the internal arena, and in light of the persistence in attacking the constitution and violating the charter, especially on the part of the government, and at a time when a high-ranking delegation from Hezbollah will visit Rabieh in the coming hours to meet with President General Michel Aoun, as revealed by Deputy Secretary-General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem yesterday, it was considered The Political Council of the Free Patriotic Movement said that the reluctance to accept the military truce in Gaza indicates the intention of the Prime Minister of Israel to continue the aggression against the Palestinians. If the movement condemns the Israeli threat to continue the war against Lebanon even if it stops in Gaza, it considers that the messages in this direction are proof that Israel, which is in crisis in Gaza, is searching for the hope of achieving a military victory that erases the image of failure that it has suffered for five months. As for the presidential issue, the movement considered that the translation of the separation between the presidential entitlement and the Gaza war would be through accelerating the election of a consensual, reformist president who personally reflects the balanced partnership and enjoys strong support from the parliamentary blocs. However, the opposite raises question marks about the existence of actual intentions of some to undermine the partnership and not rushing to elect a president. For the Republic and to rule the country without him, thus excluding Christians from power. While the movement emphasized its openness to the maximum extent for consultation and dialogue regarding the eligibility for the Presidency of the Republic, it stressed its rejection to the utmost extent of the government’s amputated practices by attacking the Charter, the Constitution, and equal partnership by attacking the powers of the President of the Republic and the powers of individual ministers and the Council of Ministers collectively and its position in light of the presidential vacuum. The movement warned that continuing to break the national partnership may result in reactions that are not in the interest of the unity of the Lebanese.
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* Introduction to the LBC TV news bulletin
Bad news is military, good news is monetary.
In the Gaza war, American, Qatari and Egyptian efforts are being made to achieve a ceasefire for the first week of Ramadan, at least, after the negotiations in Cairo reached a dead end.
This evening, the Israeli military cabinet is discussing ways to deal with the possibility of the failure of the deal efforts during the month of Ramadan.
On the southern Lebanon front, Israeli Security Minister Yoav Galant talks about the necessity of knowing the situation facing Hezbollah, and says: “They are carrying out operations and bringing us closer to a decisive point, with which we may have to make a decision on what to do. For us, the mission is paramount. Today, the residents of the north are being returned to their homes, either through a settlement process or through a military operation.”
The good monetary news from Egypt… Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced today that his government “signed an agreement” with the International Monetary Fund to raise the value of its loan to Egypt from 3 billion to 8 billion dollars.
This announcement came a few hours after the value of the Egyptian pound was reduced by more than a third, following a decision by the Central Bank to raise interest rates by 600 points, measures that the International Monetary Fund had stipulated to be taken in order to help Egypt.
It is clear that Egypt complied with the IMF’s requests, corrected demands to unify the price of the dollar, and let it interact with the market, which allowed it to increase the percentage of loans it received.
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* Introduction to the “New TV” news bulletin
The last days of the month of Shaban mix with Ramadan, and Gaza faces a time of famine documented by all international organizations working in the field of food. Gaza is “dead of hunger” after Israel killed it with fire and siege and closed the Rafah crossing, the residents’ only window to the world. Tel Aviv also besieges any decision for a truce and completion of the exchange deal, and keeps Hamas’ demands under evasion. After blocking the path to the deal with Cairo’s negotiations, the United States distributed a new draft resolution to the UN Security Council that supports an immediate ceasefire for approximately six weeks, with the release of all hostages once the parties agree, according to a source. UN diplomat for CNN.
Washington rushed to this decision after disagreements such as theatrics between it and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, as no rational person can comprehend the inability of America, Jordan and Egypt to open the Rafah crossing or to pressure Israel, an ally of these three countries, to make the Gazans breathe water, medicine and flour. So how could the budding Jordanians and America resort to this? Throwing crumbs of aid into the air… and they are capable of changing from earth to heaven. Even though it dropped aid by air, Washington did not give up on supporting Israel with weapons, as Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli War Council who was visiting the American capital, requested an increase in this aid during his meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Harris expressed her approval for increasing armaments for Israel, but stipulated facilitating the entry of aid. Aid to Gaza and the literal translation of this position: Feed them before you kill them.
This is the political preview of the American administration, which is proceeding according to the development of the electoral funds and the extent to which Donald Trump is close to shaking the throne of Joe Biden, especially after the former president won fourteen states in the race for the White House and his defeat of the lady of high heels, Nikki Haley. From March to November, the primary elections will continue to take place in the United States, so that the following year the world will win a president out of two bad ones. This atmosphere is not reflected, by any measure or analogy, in Lebanon, the recipient of the shocks… which cannot be trusted to pass municipal elections on time after two months, and its maximum social dealings range from cancerous flour, moldy rice, and lost stamps. A country without character.
But he has different political personalities that stick to the chairs… and keep the first presidential seat empty. And this stubbornness… President Najib Mikati highlighted the same in his dialogue with Al-Jadeed, and launched positions suitable for the stage of challenge under the equation: Elect a president “until he leaves you.” The positions of the political forces do not indicate that Najib Mikati will replace them… as the presidency has entered the bottleneck of war, and the ground demarcation has been mixed with the simile of the president.
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