'What have we benefited from your war?': Aoun says diplomacy is not surrender
President Joseph Aoun hit back Sunday at those who have criticized the Lebanese state for pursuing diplomacy and negotiations.
"Some have asked about what we will get from negotiation, but I ask, 'What have we benefited from your war?' Negotiation is not a concession, diplomacy is not surrender and our contacts are ongoing to halt killing and destruction," said Aoun from Bkirki, where he attended Easter mass.
Aoun also said that he wants to spare south Lebanon from destruction on the scale seen in Gaza.
"It is true that Israel might want to do in southern Lebanon what it did in Gaza," Aoun said, after Israel launched airstrikes and a ground offensive against Hezbollah, destroying several southern Lebanese villages.
"Gaza was destroyed, over 70,000 people were killed, and they eventually sat down and negotiated, so why don't we negotiate... until we can at least save the homes that have not yet been destroyed?" he added.
05 April 2026, 14:00
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"Some have asked about what we will get from negotiation"
But he cannot even name those who he referred to as "some"... LOL
05 April 2026, 14:15
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Some is the Hezbollah. Who are not Lebanese but Iranian. Happy Easter. Jesus has Risen!!!!!
05 April 2026, 14:48
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Iran proxy should have been named. True Shia are either living in Michigan or Africa and do not want this war but simply sending money to their families that's why they are gone.
05 April 2026, 17:18
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That lowlife christian hater is not autistic. His problem is that he barely has 1 or 2 neurons. He was diagnosed as such by the zoo where he lives.
06 April 2026, 11:35
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Question to Joseph Aoun: If someone sneezes at home and you do not like it, Army Intelligence will be inside his house in 5 minutes; When Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel from South or North of Litani or the Bekaa, does your army see, hear, or know where these rockets are being fired from ? and if so, how does that fit in with your repeated statements that Hezbollah military activities are illegal?
