Illustrative image. (The Syrian Arab News Agency)
United States special envoy Tom Barrack hinted on July 11 that Lebanon could be taken over by Syria if Hezbollah refuses to disarm.
Barrack, who is the special envoy for Syria and U.S. ambassador to Turkey, told The National in an interview that Lebanon needs to resolve the issue or else it could face an existential threat.
“You have Israel on one side, you have Iran on the other, and now you have Syria manifesting itself so quickly that if Lebanon doesn’t move, it’s going to be Bilad Al Sham again,” the senior diplomat said, using the historical name for the Syria region.
“Syrians say Lebanon is our beach resort. So we need to move. And I know how frustrated the Lebanese people are. It frustrates me,” he added.
Last month, Barrack presented Lebanon with a proposal to disarm Hezbollah in exchange for aid and a halt in Israeli operations in the country, which continued post a ceasefire brokered by the U.S. last November. In response, the Lebanese government demanded a full Israeli withdrawal from disputed territory, including the occupied Shebaa Farms. From its side, Hezbollah refused to disarm.
Barrack’s shocking hint came following reports in Hebrew media suggesting that Syria wants to annex parts of Lebanon in exchange for relinquishing a part of the occupied Golan Heights to Israel.
One of the proposed peace agreements reportedly allows Israel to keep two-thirds of the Golan Heights. The remaining third would be returned to Syria, but under a potential lease arrangement. In this version, Syria would also be granted control over Tripoli parts of the Bekaa Valley in northern Lebanon.
According to Israel’s i24NEWS, which was among the first to report on the alleged proposal, Syria wants to restore sovereignty over the Sunni-majority city of Tripoli.
Now, Barrack appears to suggest that Syria’s new Islamist rulers are eyeing the entirety of Lebanon, not just its northern part.
It’s worth noting that amid all of these reports tensions began to mount between Lebanon and Syria over the issue of Syrian Islamist prisoners in Lebanese jailed. According to Arab media, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa even threatened to take diplomatic and economic action against Lebanon over the issue.
Even if Syria was able to secure the support of most Sunnis in Lebanon, which is highly unlikely, all remaining groups, including Christians, Shia, Druze and Alawites, will likely fight back. Thus, Sharaa will have to embark on a full-blown war to annex just one part of Lebanon.
Considering that Syria is on its way to make peace with Israel, it is very understandable that both the U.S. and Israel would support such a war. If Syria manages to swallow Lebanon, Hezbollah will simply cease to exist and all of Israel’s northern border will be secured for the first time ever.
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the perfect scenario for israel: no surprise that hts are cheered up in the rotten west! iran again needs to get rid of a weakling ayatollah, not worthy the legacy of imam khomeini… it´s a obligation for iran to wipe out syria and jordan from the map… and better russia and china to hurry up, because israhell is an american weapon in the middle east!
you really are so deceived by superfucialities and blatantly constructed obfuscation scapegoating and deception you really ought to know. really. you need to grow upand stop being played a a sucker in their games imo no offense, but you do.
it would be nice if lebanese christians burned damascus completely. lebanese christians have priests armed with rifles, they lead the lebanese army, and they also have christian armed militias. and the main thing is, they weren’t trained and armed by the russians, so they are self-taught and have an excellent handle on dealing with crazy terrorist scums of all kinds.
says the anglo moron that cannot think
the question is why were dmitry utkin, nasrallah, soleimani, and raisi killed? that they are replaced by traitorous, putler-like scums and vormits . i hope that lebanese christians, who were not taught by traitorous russia and therefore do not know how to betray, will burn down all the mosques in syria.
china and russia must understand if iran falls to the west, they are the next in line! but apparently they didn´t get it yet! if iran falls, iraq will fall and all the mena will be in the control of us! wake up!
ain’t going to ever happen. the $usd is the mushroom cloud that has already detonated on america’$ and i$rael$ party. will never have a viable conventional force to obtain all that it wants and has yet to control in addition to the places it is already in… that leaves only one other option and i think between russia and the prc they’ve got that one licked with their “incoming” hypersonic warheads that will get to their destinations far faster than what nato$tan has.
irrael is king chatles dominion already. he’s it’s king now just as his mummy was it’s queen read the first line of the balfour declaration made by lord balfour…. it for the kings pleasure…..
they will have royal pleasure when the christian lebanese militias ravage damascus and throw a bomb into every house. even senators will be laughing their heads off when the lebanese christians finally set aleppo on fire in full force. i don’t believe in the stupid hezbollah and the even more stupid iraqi shiite militia, but i do believe in the lebanese christians, who will certainly not allow the stupidity.
no you don’t get it they’re going to use america to appear to defeat russua, which they will inc under the crown, (law) but meanwhile, just as in ww1, they will create civil war in america, while the troops are away, and restore it to the crown law too . basucally. put very simply.
if the us had to go to war, they would side with the lebanese catholics and trump would be deposed by his own kafirs. they hate iran because iran is islamic, they also hate other muslims, and the military, if it had to defend al qaeda, would rebel against trump and owerthron him.
your psychiatrist failed you
sniffing glue cannot cure your senility
russia was never syria’s ally. they always bent over for israhell and t*rkey at the expense of the saa and syrian peoples
you didn’t get educated you got brainwashed the yussupov family, russians ran the islamic world totally. guess who hated that?? the romanovs chose greek orthodoxy over roman catholicism. the old greek democracy versus the roman republic fundamentalism. guess who hated that?
russia was on the verge of becoming the greatest mitary industrial superpower on earth, greek orthodox and ruling over islam. and tsar alexander had just finished setting up a new constitution emulating britains constituonal monarchy
guess who went berserk.
that’s why they always wanted to destroy the disgusting thing (russia), and now russia is on the verge of collapse.
lebanese christians will burn down the russian base and give the alawite scum two choices: “fight on our side or die by our bullet!” like partisans in 1943.
lebanese christians should also make this available to the russians found at the military base.
probably the pope. the pope will side with the lebanese christians just as the pope sided with the croats and together with the slovenes they ended yugoslavia.
popes don’t “side” with anyone, they command their followers (charlemagne, william of normandy, napoleon, hitler, pavelic, boris johnson) to destroy or subjugate “schismatics” wherever they find them – the lrgest remaining group, of course, being in russia.
russia has always been a treacherous conglomerate of half-corruption and half-jewry. genocid since made in germany in 1945 by russian, it can only be measured with srebrenica.
inferior bitter bitch tantrums
and will russia and iran just sit idle while this happens?!!? if that moronic zionist puppet al jolani attacks lebanon it would be the perfect opportunity for russia and iran to take him out!
lift your game they’ve got you looking into mud puddles.
i hope we can see bloody mud puddles all over syria. and all the houses and businesses will turned to ashes and dust by lebanese christian militia. one house must not remain a pedophile dogs hts. because of the yazidi and alawite girls who are being kidnapped in the name of their god, all mosques must be blown up and the lebanese militias must ban islam entirely.
mean bitter immoral atheist scum
the russians are just plain evil pigs, maybe the chinese are a little more humane and would just bomb the uyghurs before the uyghurs come to liberate the uyghur villages from the chinese.
inferior whore envious tantrums
meglio unire israele, palestina, libano, siria in un solo stato.
exactly. but nothing can be achieved without the complete destruction of syria. so i hope that the lebanese will defeat hts fairly and completely destroy syria, so that they will go to turkey like the serbs went to serbia when ante gotovina wiped them out of croatia.
so in other words israel can take over lebanon. isis julani is israel
in theory. but in practice, however, the lebanese christian militias are not alawite idiots and are not led by an ass ad. therefore, hts is by no means guaranteed a victory, because the lebanese are self-taught and were not taught by russia. the probability of the burning of damascus and aleppo by lebanese christians militia and army is greater than many people imagine. and in the us, trump will then be owerthorn and sent to prison where he belongs.
israeli and american mercenaries, have taken over syrian! lebanese is another parcel too big for either nation to succeed in anything other than another debacle and tail between the legs of another marine
woof woof try not barking up the wrong trees
lebanon is not led by russia, because everyone who has been led by russia has been led to death and destruction. remember armenia and serbia. lebanon is run by hague judges and they were all cursed by slobodan praljak and that is why the lebanese will do greater things with the syrians than the croats did in kraina and mostar. the burning of damascus by lebanese christians is very likely because this is the only possible justification for the pedophiles hts.
there was a debacle in syria due to drugs and russian betrayal.
and another war lost!
won another war won
he won because of russian betrayal, because putler is a jew.
inferior stupid racist scum—you belong in a zoo
not another defeat, the first defeat, but a decisive one, because they will have to leave syria, which will no longer be suitable for habitation. and russia is not there in lebanon, so it will not be like it was in the case of patrice lumumba in the congo and in many other places, where russia proved to be a complete traitor and loser.
ahmed sharaa a paid thugs think by helping israel aginst lebnon he will survive. this guy is ready to kill millions of muslim just to please zionist . lebnease people will fight to death to make sure ahmed sarra will be killed . cristian shia alwai lebnon and from syria north and druze will join hand to fight this syria terrorist but one think is sure sunni are causing more troube then this zionist . sunni leaders and thier followers have sold thier soul to zionist devil
they’ve been deceived by the usual lackeys. infiltration if church and state run education and entertainment eg “news”
they were deceived by the russians! yes, the russians. in 1848, josip broz tito released all the home guard ustashas and chetnis sentenced to life imprisonment from goli island and imprisoned the stalinists there. what do you think about that?
i hope they make syria the dresden of 1945 or the vukovar of 1991. something like this, so that all the inhabitants (even the stupid alawites) will flee to turkey. that there will be nothing to eat in the entire country except killed hts and cockroaches.
animal anglo trash
this is just an attempt to frighten lebanon before eventually attacking it. it’s a stupid test to see the reaction of the weaks within the enemys.
remember: the zionist army consists of spies who makes other people fighting another.
never they will and never they can take a land by force. first strike is always their hardest, because their lies are working by then.
but soon, like in ukraine, their lies will melt away, so their power will.
you’re either a tool or a fool
the tool and the fool is putler. only he, who is destroying russia and ukraine, does not see that starmer and ursula are accumulating an army and weapons. what will they use it for? to destroy the traitorous russian pigs.
lebanon should more actively enlist hezbollah in its military.
last part isn’t true. if syria could annex lebanon hezbo wouldn’t cease to exist! maybe weakened more, politically expelled & forced underground into hiding but would have popular support & vast number of allied partners from all the sociopolitical & ethno-sectarian groups in name of national solidarity, unity & of course resistance proving hezbo rite all along, cementing its legacy & they’ll wear down, attrit & route syrian forces..
rubbish globalists are imperialists sovereign nations is a lie covered by the rule of laws entrapment as tool of incorporation under one crown.
which one? china, led by the virology institute in wuhan?
maybe hezbollah could teach the stupid alawites, who were completely driven crazy by russia, a little bit, because right now they are dumber than amoebas and paramecia.
i swallow all the jizz in lgbt bar.
i only swallow mulatto and israeli jizz cuz inferior species americunt cannot afford hillbilly jizz
why do you think they killed nasrallah, utkin, raisi, and soleimani? that only traitors like putler and an ass ad are left. i hope everything turns against them and syria is completely destroyed so that even their hts will not enjoy it. so will they can just drive around the empty desert and feed on cockroaches and decaying corpses. no alawite or yazidi girls to rape and sell, just sand, ash, destruction, and lebanese christians throwing bombs and shooting at anything that moves.
even in a gay bar, people are smarter if there are no traitorous russians among them.
bitter inferior envious of superior russians
always the media allowed fit for public consumption diplomatic correct comments that they’re instructed they’re allowed to dispense to little ears. the truths top secret. it’s not allowed out ever. ever ever
i’m here to write again that putler is a jewish pedophile who europe will push out of crimea and karelia in a few years.
swallow too much mulatto jizz makes inferior bitch delusional
there will never be peace as long as jews are running a pig farm pretending to be a country
zios push their puppet azerbaijan against russia to sabotage turkish-russian relations , while israeli agent jew-lani plans to attack lebanon plus hisballah … and as always russia caught off guard ..what is fsb/gru even good for
hahaha…this is exactly what has been planned all along. all talk is just to rid lebanon of defenses, waiting for that is all that remains before they make their move. israel and ‘syria’ will take the south and east, turkiye will take the rest. geagea is the new abbas, a traitor within to effect this invasion. he thinks there will be room for him afterwards. all his talk of a peaceful lebanon is bought with dollars, while he sells lebanon to israel and turkiye.
more peace in the middle east!
israel and the us are on the march. iran and every other country not assimilated into their empire are in the crosshairs. give up on any idea you can negotiate a peaceful settlement with them. strong defenses are urgently needed. meet their aggression with courage and strength.