Lebanese army wants IDF to stay in south, US official says

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Their concern, according to the official, is that an IDF withdrawal at this stage could leave territory open for Hezbollah to return.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Lebanese army officers have told US officials they oppose an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon for now because they fear Hezbollah would return to areas vacated by the IDF, a senior US official told Kan News on Monday.

The comments come as Israel weighs whether to relinquish additional territory to the Lebanese army while expressing dissatisfaction with its performance in areas where a pilot program against Hezbollah began a month and a half ago.

A senior US official said Lebanese officers had made their position against an Israeli withdrawal clear because of concerns that Hezbollah terrorists could reestablish themselves in the same locations.

“We are working with both sides to reach a future arrangement, but it will take more time,” the official told Kan News.

Israeli defense officials have recently focused on the Ali Taher ridge, north of Beaufort, where terrorists are still believed to be present. Israeli assessments indicate that most of the terrorists in the area have been killed.

Senior Israeli defense officials have discussed in recent days whether the IDF should continue holding the ridge or transfer it to the Lebanese army.

Israel has also informed the United States about developments in the area ahead of another round of direct talks between Israel and Lebanon scheduled for next month.

The question of whether to hand over the Ali Taher ridge comes as Israeli officials assess the Lebanese army’s performance in the areas covered by the pilot program.

Kan News reported that Israel is not satisfied with the results a month and a half after the initiative began.

The US official’s account indicates that Lebanese army officers themselves are wary of an immediate Israeli departure from southern Lebanon, despite discussions over transferring additional areas to their control.

Their concern, according to the official, is that an IDF withdrawal at this stage could leave territory open for Hezbollah to return.

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Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

You can read along with these texts and more on our Sacred Scripture page. 

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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