Harmony between Mikati's position and the party
A new appearance by the secretary general of "Hezbollah" Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah yesterday at the memorial ceremony commemorating the one week martyrdom of Commander Wissam Hassan Tawil [Hajj Jawad] who was assassinated by Israel in the town of Khirbet Selm in the South, dedicated to responding – albeit in a vague way - to what was proposed by the US envoy, senior adviser to the US president for energy affairs Amos Hochstein, who visited Beirut last Thursday.
The initial reading of the speech suggests that the Secretary-General rejected the settlement and the southern Arena is heading for further escalation, but a veteran political source explained, via the "Akhbar al-Yawm" agency, that Nasrallah's position came in light of American pressure, which took two forms in the last stage:
1- Direct pressure on Israel, where the administration of President Joe Biden can no longer bear the problematic of creating an anti-war world public opinion, especially in countries that are in the orbit of the United States and are within NATO in terms of destruction, murder and extermination, and what is happening before the International Court of justice after starting to follow up the genocide complaint filed by the state of South Africa, add to all this that Biden is seeking a second term.
2- The pressure of the diplomatic offers that Hochstein brought to Beirut, which mainly deal with the demarcation of the land borders, the solution on the borders and the non-expansion of the military conflict or the war on Israel's northern borders.
The source added: between the American pressure and the field, Sayyed Nasrallah's speech falls into the category of improving the negotiation conditions, and therefore he does not close the door to negotiation at all. At the same time, he sent a message that he was not afraid of threats, whether from Washington or Tel Aviv.
The source pointed out that the improvement of the negotiating conditions includes political gains inside as well as border gains.
Where is the Lebanese state from all this? The same political source replied: president Najib Mikati expressed his position when he said: when the Gaza war stops, our war stops, meaning that Mikati also entered the stage of improving the same negotiation conditions, linking the end of the military conflict in Lebanon with the Gaza war, and this is evidence of harmony between Mikati's position and the position of the party.
He concluded: This is a good thing until further notice, that is, until the Lebanese state has the final word.