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News & Current Events Apr 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM

Lebanon's president Joseph Aoun refuses to speak with Israeli PM Nentanyahu

Posted by MikeWithNoHair

Lebanon's president refuses to speak with Netanyahu
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Lebanon's president refuses to speak with Netanyahu
President Joseph Aoun rejected a U.S. request to speak with the prime minister, despite President Donald Trump's announcement of a 'historic' call 'for the first time in 34 years'
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PeksyTiger Apr 16, 2026 +21
I don't understand these talks. What changed from a year and a half ago? They're just stalling for time again. 
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Rock_mage Apr 16, 2026 +25
The first negotiation between Israel and Lebanon in 30 years happened not too long ago. Lebanon doesn't recognize Israel as a country still so they refuse negotiations.
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Kewkky Apr 16, 2026 +27
At some point they have to just accept that Israel is not going anywhere and have the capability to stop anyone in the vicinity from making them move. Is this still going to continue even a hundred years from now (assuming both countries still exist)?
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Proxy-Pie Apr 16, 2026 -20
Almost all Arab countries signed on to the Arab Peace initiative - an agreement to recognize Israel in exchange for Palestinian statehood. That is a completely reasonable demand. The alternative is leaving them under the current military regime, where they live in de facto bantustans. Anyone who knows anything about the dystopia that is the Israeli rule over the West Bank knows is absolutely insane.
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zombietrooper Apr 16, 2026 -3
There is a Palestinian state already, it's called Jordan.
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Proxy-Pie Apr 16, 2026 -16
So original
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MercantileReptile Apr 16, 2026 -19
> Lebanon doesn't recognize Israel as a country If they don't hurry up and stabilise their own territory, they won't be a country much longer themselves. The naked landgrab from Israel has little reason to stop. Soon enough, it might be fair to speak of the Beirut government, rather than Lebanon. Its been known for a while they can't easily break the political and military influece of Hezbollah. But by now, it seems they will lose considerable territory over it.
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Rock_mage Apr 16, 2026 +2
When people stop using smartphones and Europe develops a substitute to the arrow system it might happen.
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Immediate-Yam-8828 Apr 17, 2026 +3
The only significant changes are around the funding. Hezbollah still has money coming in from their drug smuggling and human trafficking networks but the IRGC money is more limited now. There's also the aid from from the gulf, europe, US, etc that was supposed to go to the Lebanese government which might have more stipulations on it regarding their inaction towards keeping their crazies in line. But you're probably right and they're just stalling for time. The Lebanese government will commit to dealing with hezbollah and then do nothing for another 20 years.
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Lpreddit Apr 16, 2026 +15
Trying not to be the next Hariri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafic_Hariri
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TopBar3633 Apr 17, 2026 +1
So not getting an airport named after him?
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Lpreddit Apr 17, 2026 +1
I’m guessing if given the choice of not being assasinated vs having an airport named after him, he’d lean towards staying alive.
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TopBar3633 Apr 17, 2026 +1
Id rather be remembered personally. If I was to die right now and Eilat airport were to change to my name, I'd consider it
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xnmyl Apr 17, 2026
TL;DR for anyone else who didn't know of him Former PM of Lebanon that was assassinated. Various groups have blamed: * Syria * Israel * Hezbollah
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Low-Temperature-6962 Apr 18, 2026 +3
A UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon convicted Hezbollah operative Salim Ayyash in absentia in 2020 for premeditated murder, with two others (Hassan Merhi and Hussein Oneissi) convicted on appeal in 2022 as accomplices. No evidence linked Hezbollah leadership or Syria directly, though early suspicions pointed to Syrian involvement. Hariri opposed Syrian influence in Lebanon; his death sparked the Cedar Revolution, forcing Syrian troop withdrawal by April 2005. Hezbollah denied responsibility, blaming Israel instead.
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gunzgoboom Apr 16, 2026 +5
I get that Netanyahu is terrible. But he is the head of Israel right now, as shitty as that is. It is the responsibility of the Lebanese leader to talk to him. If his goal is peace.
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CucumberWisdom Apr 16, 2026 -6
I doubt Netanyahu cares. Hezbollah is the true power in Lebanon
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Rock_mage Apr 16, 2026 +5
They have been losing to the Lebanese government and army for the past year. They don't have the support of the other religious groups anymore. I recommend looking at more recent polls.
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No-Advisor6632 Apr 16, 2026 -1
And the Lebanese are quasi-hostages. As long as Iran couldn’t focus on its proxies the Lebanese government thought they had a shot of removing them.  Iran has turned one eye back to its proxies and the Lebanese government is scared again.   The best thing that can happen to the region is for the US to start bombing and scattering Iranian leadership; right now they’re meeting in the open, communicating, and strategizing. 
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itsatumbleweed Apr 16, 2026 +1
I thought Trump announced that they were meeting in Truth Social last night?
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redditobserverone Apr 17, 2026 +1
The FIFA Peace laureate is doing a tremendous job. ‘Well nobody is speaking. So it’s quiet. That’s peace. Now let’s talk about the peace I negotiated in Iran…” "Iran immediately shut down President Donald Trump’s claim that it had “agreed to everything” the United States demanded, including handing over its enriched uranium." "Instead, Iran’s foreign ministry said on Friday afternoon that its uranium was not going anywhere."
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Ultra_Metal Apr 16, 2026 -4
Aoun is a puppet of Hezbollah.
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Stepfordhusband69 Apr 16, 2026 -7
I didn’t know Darth Vader without his helmet was the president of Lebanon 
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itspronouncedbolonya Apr 17, 2026 +1
It was actually Anakin Skywalker
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[deleted] Apr 16, 2026 +2
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YogiBarelyThere Apr 16, 2026 -11
Aoun knows where he gets his falafel money from.
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zIFeathers Apr 16, 2026 -13
Hezbollah whispered that in his ear
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MamaLiq Apr 16, 2026 -22
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxkk1vnp57o "Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed"
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itspronouncedbolonya Apr 17, 2026 +1
And they're refusing peace negotiations
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fuckyoualloveragain Apr 16, 2026 -38
yea, who want's to talk to aggressive, invading, occupying, old pedophile satan worshippers!
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the_raucous_one Apr 16, 2026 +14
Lol, Satan worship is why a non state military has turned S Lebanon into a battlefield. Name another country with two militaries, with one not answerable to the country it's in? I'll wait ..
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fuckyoualloveragain Apr 16, 2026 -36
are you on the satan worshipping pedophile side of this? I reckon from your comment!
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kriegerflieger Apr 16, 2026 +13
You’re pathetic
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PhantasmologicalAnus Apr 16, 2026 +4
Grow up.
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ruminaui Apr 16, 2026 -5
A bunch of boys here. 
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