Hochstein returns: The terms of the cease-fire agreement

According to what Lebanon is officially starting to feel, truce talks could resume in the period between the terms of current President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump. If the Israeli media talks about the existence of an agreement paper, or a draft understanding of a ceasefire, Lebanon denies that there is a complete and integrated project. Official political sources confirm that the American ambassador, Amos Hockstein, did not carry the formula for an official agreement, but only ideas drawn up on a piece of paper that would agree with Netanyahu.

Hockstein’s activities were likely to end with Trump’s election, unless he reconnected with officials, hoping to resume the investigation where he left off. He said, at the request of the president-elect, he would start considering a ceasefire and agree to implement Resolution 1701.

Scope of work of the audit committee
If Israeli newspapers are talking about agreement formulas and drafts for a ceasefire, this only shows that there is an attempt to implement Resolution 1701 in a way that suits Israel’s wishes. It reserves the right to carry out military operations whenever it considers that there is a threat from the Lebanese side. Another item that Lebanon rejected was the working method of the inspection committee that had to be present on the border with Lebanon and its powers.

What Lebanon understood was that the Israeli press leaks are also attempts to prove negotiating blows, or a pre-emptive process for any agreement, and Lebanon does not consider itself concerned about anything beyond what he told the American ambassador to visit Lebanon to Lebanon. resumed his investigation, but not before receiving a response from Netanyahu to the Lebanese proposals he put forward during his last visit to Israel.

Terms of the upcoming agreement
Official political sources confirm that there are links between the American ambassador Amos Hockstein and Lebanese officials. It was revealed that Hockstein once again contacted those involved in the settlement file, stating that he intended to continue his duties at the request of President-elect Donald Trump. This was confirmed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who spoke at his meeting with Sunni representatives about having a dialogue with Hockstein and said that the search is ongoing for solutions.

The sources did not rule out Hochstein arriving in Lebanon, after Israel, where he will discuss with Netanyahu the proposals agreed by Lebanon. She went on to say that during his last visit, Hockstein discussed a paper of understanding based on the implementation of Resolution 1701, with additional details on the operational mechanism to implement the provisions of this agreement. The same sources revealed that the implementation of this decision will include several factors, including: the use of the army in the south, meaning about 7,000 to 10,000 soldiers, which removing military demonstrations from the border, providing the Lebanese army with the necessary weapons to carry out their tasks, the establishment of an inspection committee on the border, and the displaced to return

He also revealed that the implementation of Resolution 1701 would include something from the April 1996 understanding, and another from the Ceasefire Agreement, which means the annex related to the implementation provisions of the agreement, denying ​​​​​​​specifically that Lebanon had agreed to allow Israel to achieve it. military operations whenever it was appropriate under a bankruptcy case.

Removing Hezbollah
During his visit and discussion with the Speakers of the House of Representatives and the Government, Hockstein did not speak to presidential issues, and did not compromise on the election of the president, even though Lebanon clearly felt the desire of the United States to grant this right. as soon as possible. But such a clause was not included in the context of Resolution 1701, contrary to what was reported.

Lebanon is waiting for Hochstein to return. The research is still in its infancy. The implementation process will take a long time, with each party’s vision of how to implement Resolution 1701, what Israel aims to achieve, and what Lebanon wants.

According to the available data, Hezbollah’s approval is no longer an obstacle to the implementation of this decision, but Lebanon believes that it is more beneficial not to identify with Israel’s vision, which is trying to remove Hezbollah from the borders for a certain distance and eliminate its presence. and occupation, that is, everything related to Hezbollah. In this clause, there is a problem about what the phrase means everything related to Hezbollah. It is common knowledge that the party is present in towns, institutions, and in the government as well as in the House of Representatives. Is it possible to exclude him from political life and remove him from the south in the way that the Israelis think and the Americans want?

The truce depends on the expected return of Hochstein, and the tentative agreement of Netanyahu, who is determined to continue his murder and negotiate in blood, taking advantage of a period between two time If the negotiations are successful, a truce will be achieved. Otherwise, he has threatened to move to the second level of military action, and he may indeed have moved to it, given the scale of the killings seen in the past hours.