Top Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine is dead

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

BEIRUT (AP) — Hashem Safieddine, a strongman who rose through the ranks of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah over decades to become the second-most powerful person within the organization, has died.

Safieddine, who was about 60, was killed in early October in a series of Israeli airstrikes in a southern suburb of Beirut that shook much of the Lebanese capital, part of Israel's campaign against Hezbollah. Israel said Tuesday that Safieddine had been killed in the strikes; Hezbollah confirmed the death Wednesday.

Safieddine's death came as he was widely expected to be elected the group's next leader after the death of Hassan Nasrallah, one of its founders.

Safieddine, Nasrallah's maternal cousin, had spent years preparing for the position — but the announcement was slow in coming following the Sept. 27 airstrike in the Beirut suburbs that killed Nasrallah, part of a series of blows dealt by Israel that had left Hezbollah in disarray.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-hezbollah-official-hashem-safieddine-151216091.html

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1. Now there should be absolutely no reason Netanyahu doesn't negotiate for a ceasefire and hostage release...

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now that the Hamas and Hezbollah top leadership has been killed off.

Netanyahu/Likud/tge IDF has won. Let's see if they negotiate now for peace and hostage release instead of continuing the warmongering and widen of the war.

[jimfields33]

3. I'd rather he wait until all are dead.

We’re only in this a year. At least give them as long as Ukraine has gotten.

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4. You're actuallly advocatiing more slaughter of innocents in Gaza and now Beirut by a force...

with an overwhelming arms advantage of jet strikes, tanks, artillery, US bombs btw, and an organiced occupying force against the remnants of Hamas hiding in tunnels with small arms, and Lebanese citizens working and trying to live and do their jobs and survive IDF bomb strikes on their work places in Beirut's financial district?

Are you kidding? Do you realize what you just wrote?

I've found it best not to be cavalier about peoples' lives...especially those of the remaining hostages held by Hamas.

Netanyahu has won. There's no more reason to continue the killing.

[Beastly Boy]

5. Did anyone on the hamas side express any burning desire to negotiate?

As long as Hamas refuses to take part in negotiations, are you expecting Netanyahu to negotiate with himself?

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6. IMO peace negotiations are worth a try.

[Beastly Boy]

7. Peace negotiation with who?

Is it worth a try to negotiate with an empty seat at the negotiating table? To what end? How is it even possible?

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8. Netanyahu has also pulled back quite often and refused to negotiate.

It's not a one-side stance of Hamas only. I think it's worth seeing if Bibi makes it clear he's willing to negotiate for pease and hostage release, let's see if the other side responds positively.

I'm an optimist. I say it's worth a try. I won't kill Bibi to try, just as his corrupt behind is never in danger when he orders more bomb strikes from his safe place.

[Beastly Boy]

9. He may have pulled back (depending on who is telling the story) but he didn't refuse to negotiate.

In fact, now that Sinwar is no longer in a position to thwart the negotiations, Netanyahu's Mossad chief Barnea is heading to Qatar on Sunday.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/10/24/mossad-chief-to-travel-to-qatar-renew-hostage-negotiation-talks/

Didn't take long, did it?

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10. It shouldn't take long. He should do nothing but declare victory and negoatiate for peace...

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as the opposition leadership has been killed.

But IIRC, Netanyahu has said the war will continue. And IIRC there were new air strikes in Gaza and Beirut in the last two days. His corrupt behind is still ordering bomb strikes and widening the war.

[Beastly Boy]

11. I know he should negotiate for peace. My question is, who should he negotiate with?

An empty chair?

And the other question: how does he declare victory over a terrorist organization that keeps on shooting missiles into his country?

These are not just empty words devoid of meaning. These are real questions that require legitimate answers.

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12. IMO it's always worth a try for peace. Hamas is beaten.

Let's see what happens if the Biden/Blinken team, the Eygptians and the Qataris negotiators reserve a chair for Hamas/Hezbollah with a guarantee of safe passage, I say let's take this historic opportunity (that being the demise of their leadership which has never happened before), and let's get on with a hostage release, a ceasefire and substantive talks towards a two-state solution.

Its doubtful that there will ever be a more prime time to make it happen. Who wants another 75 years of on again-off again war?

[Beastly Boy]

13. If only someone in a position to negotiate for hamas could hear what you say and find it acceptable.

As long as Hamas holds hostages, they are not beaten.

Let's see if any Blinken/Qataris/Egyptians can find anyone to negotiate with on the side of Hamas. Only then can we talk about negotiations.

You need two parties to negotiate with each other. Two. Until then negotiations are not possible by definition of the word.

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14. Two parties needed, absolutely. But now long can Hamas hold out with no supplies flowing into Gaza?

[Mosby]

2. Another one bites the dust.

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