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JERUSALEM — Amid the beginning of a cease-fire on Wednesday between Israel and the Iranian regime-backed Hezbollah terrorist motion in Lebanon, some important Republican lawmakers accused President Biden of browbeating Israel into a short lived abeyance of the struggle because the Jewish shape staged a near-takedown of the phobia staff’s management and army construction.
The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) reached the Litani River in Lebanon on Tuesday. A key struggle purpose for the IDF is to push Hezbollah forces north of the Litani River. Beneath the cease-fire deal, Hezbollah is needed to progress its forces north of the Litani, which in some playgrounds is set 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the border.
But, the reported warning of Biden enforcing a guns embargo on Israel pulled the plug on Israel’s penetration of Hezbollah-controlled space in southern Lebanon, in keeping with regional mavens and several other lawmakers.
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Former President Obama, left, and President Biden shake arms all through an match to mark the 2010 passage of the Inexpensive Serve Function within the East Room of the White Area in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
“The cease-fire agreement does not diminish what Israel managed to achieve in short order against Hezbollah. Within two months, it dismantled its infrastructure along the border, decapitated its entire senior command structure, destroyed a large percentage of its arsenal, and killed and injured thousands of its fighters,” Tony Badran Levant, analyst and information writer at Pill Novel, instructed Fox Information Virtual.
Describing the progress by means of former officers from the Obama management who now paintings within the Biden management, he stated, “What the Obama-Biden team did on their way out was to coerce the Israelis, reportedly with the threat of an arms embargo at the Security Council, into signing onto Obama’s vision for the U.S. role in Lebanon, which is part of his broader pro-Iran realignment. This is the downside of the agreement: it consolidates this Obama framework that should have been dismantled — and that’s separate from the tactical and strategic gains that Israel achieved on the battlefield. Rather, this pertains to U.S. policy and how the Obama-Biden team used Israel to lock in their regional preferences.”
He persevered, “The deal puts the incoming Trump administration and the Israelis in a weird situation, not just because it saddles the new administration with Obama’s preferences in Lebanon — including hundreds of millions in additional aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces — but also it makes the U.S. an arbiter for Israeli action against Hezbollah moving forward and the possibility for friction that may create between the Trump administration and Israel.
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein speaks during a press conference after meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Beirut on March 4. (Reuters/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo)
“In the meantime, the Obama-Biden staff have eager their construction in playground. If the incoming management helps to keep it, that might be stunning for the Democrats, who will pick out it up at the alternative finish and make bigger on it. Finally, they have got a report — a bilateral facet word — that will probably be there for a date Democratic management,” he warned.
Amos Hochstein, the presidential envoy who brokered the deal, told Israel’s Channel 12 evening news anchor Yonit Levi that he had informed President-elect Trump’s team about the tenets of the deal “as it’s very impressive for them to know and backup it, as a result of they will have to hold it ahead and enforce as they took place of work in only some weeks.”
Echoing Badran’s warning, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., noted in a statement that “I’m deeply mad each by means of studies that Obama-Biden officers exerted monumental drive on our Israeli allies to simply accept this cease-fire and by means of how the ones officers are characterizing Israel’s duties. This drive and those statements are additional efforts to undermine Israel and constrain the incoming Trump management. Obama-Biden officers burdened our Israeli allies into accepting the cease-fire by means of withholding guns they had to preserve themselves and counter Hezbollah, and by means of threatening to facilitate an additional, broader, binding world fingers embargo throughout the United Countries.”
Hezbollah launched rocket attacks a day after the Hamas massacre of nearly 1,200 people on Oct. 7, 2023, in southern Israel. The Iranian regime-backed Hamas terrorist movement slaughtered more than 40 Americans during the invasion.
IDF troops fight Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit)
According to the left-wing Israeli Haaretz newspaper, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides said Biden threatened a weapons delivery stoppage for Israel if Jerusalem continued to prosecute its war in Lebanon. The second Biden threat reportedly involved a U.S. refusal to veto a potential U.N. Security Council resolution that would hurt the Israelis.
The Biden administration denied the punitive measures targeting Israel to bring about a cease-fire in Lebanon. A senior administration official during a Tuesday press briefing flatly denied that Biden threatened to sanction Israel at the council. The official said, “This matter by no means got here up, no longer as soon as. It’s handiest that we didn’t threaten it… actually the subject by no means got here up, so, I don’t even know the way to reply to the query any alternative method. It’s utterly untouched to me. And none folks has heard of this ahead of.”
Backing this up in his interview with Israel’s Ch. 12, Hochstein also denied the Biden administration threatened Israel over use of its U.N. Security Council veto if it did not sign the deal, saying, “There used to be disagree such dialogue at any level,” adding that “it by no means got here up.”
The U.S. Circumstance Segment didn’t in an instant reply to a Fox Information Virtual press question.
Mourners raise their hands and chant slogans during the funeral procession of Hezbollah fighters who were killed in an Israeli strike in the southern suburb of Beirut on Sept. 21. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Biden’s carrot-and-stick approach toward the delivery of weapons to Israel as the tiny Jewish state fights a seven-front war against Islamic Republic of Iran proxies has been a source of friction between Netanyahu and its main ally, the U.S.
Lt. Col. (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, president and founder of the Israel-based Alma Research and Education Center, told Fox News Digital that the IDF eliminated Hezbollah leadership, most of its rockets were eradicated, and it was pushed away from the border. She said, “The large query at stake extra, will Hezbollah recuperate and smuggle rockets and collect them in Lebanon and south Lebanon once more?”
Zehavi answered her question, “I’m good-looking positive that this do business in is not going to.”
Lebanese experts have long argued that Hezbollah is the de facto ruler of Lebanon. The U.S., Canada and many European countries classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
“The Lebanese executive isn’t prepared to modify its dating with Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a member of the Lebanese executive,” Zehavi stated.
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President Biden speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
She said she does expect enforcement of the terms of the cease-fire from the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL), the Lebanese armed forces and the Lebanese state.
According to the cease-fire, the Lebanese government is required to stop the smuggling of weapons to Hezbollah, Zehavi noted.
“I settle for this cease-fire with blended emotions. As a resident of the north, I’m glad that we have got a cease-fire. I’m glad that my daughter can move again to college. I’m glad to move again to normality and to terminate listening to sounds of struggle and working for refuge all of the age,” she stated.
Former President Trump, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on July 26. (Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Mayors and local leaders in the northern towns ravaged by Hezbollah’s missile attacks opposed the cease-fire deal because the terms of the deal did not ensure they could safely reside in their homes.
Biden said that over 70,000 Israelis were forced to flee their homes in northern Israel because of Hezbollah’s rocket attacks. The number of displaced Israelis, according to experts in Israel, may be as high as 100,000 people.
UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti told Fox News Digital, “The proliferation of guns outdoor shape keep an eye on in Lebanon has been an indisputable fact, and that during south Lebanon — south of the Litani River — is a flagrant violation of Answer 1701. However, as said previous, UNIFIL isn’t mandated to disarm Hezbollah or alternative teams by means of drive. The Challenge does no longer have the mandate to forcibly input any location until there may be credible proof that movements important to opposed job are taking playground in that location.”
Fox News Digital reported on the alleged failures of UNSC 1701, whose aim is to dislodge Hezbollah from southern Lebanon and disarm the terrorist organization.
When asked by CNN about incoming Trump national security adviser Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., attributing the cease-fire deal to the Trump effect, Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan said, “This leisure do business in used to be reached as a result of Israel completed its army targets, for the reason that stakeholders in Lebanon made up our minds they didn’t need struggle anymore, and on account of relentless American international relations led by means of President Biden, pushed by means of her envoy Amos Hochstein, coordinated on this construction in the back of me by means of the Nationwide Safety Council. That’s how this got here to go.”
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A UNIFIL armored personnel carrier departs a base to patrol near the Lebanon-Israel border in Marjayoun, Lebanon, on Oct. 5. (Carl Court/Getty Images)
Waltz wrote on X, “Everyone seems to be coming to the desk on account of President Trump. His resounding victory despatched a sunny message to the residue of the arena that chaos gained’t be tolerated. I’m satisfied to look concrete steps against deescalation within the Heart East. However let’s be sunny: The Iran Regime is the foundation reason for the chaos & terror that has been unleashed around the patch. We will be able to no longer live through the situation quo in their backup for terrorism.”
A Trump-Vance transition official told Fox News Digital that “President Trump has been crystal sunny that his backup for Israel and his loyalty to leisure within the Heart East is steadfast. Hezbollah understands that is their highest alternative to get a extra favorable do business in finished. Iran-backed proxies obviously see the clock ticking as President Trump will quickly go back to the White Area with a powerful nationwide safety staff, together with Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth, with U.S. perception led by means of Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe. President Trump rightfully predicted that actors within the patch would create strikes towards leisure on account of his ancient victory — and that’s precisely what we’re visible whisk playground.”
The Related Press contributed to this record.