Katz says Trump’s linking Lebanon to Iran conflict spared Hezbollah from devastating blow

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“Trump tried to link the Lebanon and Iran arenas because Iran was applying heavy pressure,” Katz said.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday that linking developments in Lebanon to the memorandum of understanding addressing the conflict with Iran prevented Israel from carrying out a larger military campaign against Hezbollah, while reiterating that Israeli forces will remain in security zones in southern Lebanon until the group’s presence is eliminated.

Speaking about contacts between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Katz said he witnessed four conversations in which the relationship between the Iranian and Lebanese fronts was discussed.

“Trump tried to link the Lebanon and Iran arenas because Iran was applying heavy pressure,” Katz said.

Katz said he was absent from a fifth conversation but said President Trump continued pressing to connect the two theaters.

He said the approach reflected American interests and led Israel to adopt what he described as “Plan B,” which involved deepening the Yellow Line while allowing residents to return to Beirut’s Dahiyeh district and parts of southern Lebanon.

Addressing the suspension of Israeli military operations, Katz argued that the decision prevented the IDF from expanding its campaign against Hezbollah.

“The pause prevented a massive blow the IDF had planned to continue inflicting on Hezbollah. Linking the arenas saved Hezbollah from a devastating blow, perhaps even its collapse,” he said.

Katz said Israel’s position on its security zone in southern Lebanon remained unchanged.

“In any case, we would not have withdrawn, and we will not do so in the future as long as Hezbollah is there,” he said.

He also said Israel has no intention of remaining in Lebanese territory permanently, but maintained that any future withdrawal would depend on the Lebanese Army removing Hezbollah from areas vacated by Israeli forces.

“We have no territorial ambitions in Lebanon. The Lebanese Army will have to do the job in the areas from which the IDF withdraws. The IDF will have to verify that this has happened and that Hezbollah is no longer present in the areas from which it withdraws. The current mission is to remove Hezbollah from the Litani area.”

Katz said he remained skeptical that any force other than the IDF would ultimately accomplish that objective.

“I have no illusions. In the end, the one that will have to do the job is the IDF.”

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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