In a joint statement issued by around 17 Christian villages in southern Lebanon, the municipalities rejected the Israeli claims and denied reports circulated by Hebrew-language media that these villages had asked Israeli officials to annex them to Israel and grant their residents Israeli citizenship.

The statement described these reports as "fabricated" and having "no basis in reality," stressing that the residents of these villages are committed to Lebanon, regard it as their final homeland, and will not accept any substitute for their Lebanese identity.

Country comparison of Arab opinion on their countries recognizing Israel

Source: Arab Opinion Index 2025, figure 34.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5931949-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-hezbollah-ben-gvir/

polyblog.lebanon:

In a striking political irony, Hezbollah has attacked the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, reached under U.S. mediation during negotiations in Washington, portraying it as a concession and a threat to Lebanon.

Yet Israel's far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has taken an almost identical position. He denounced the agreement as a "grave mistake" and announced that he had asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to submit it to a cabinet vote.

The irony does not end there. Al-Akhbar, the Lebanese newspaper closely aligned with Hezbollah, rushed to highlight and promote Ben-Gvir's remarks as evidence of the agreement's supposed dangers—effectively relying on the rhetoric of one of Israel's most extreme politicians to reinforce its own narrative.

When Hezbollah and Ben-Gvir both oppose the same agreement—each for reasons that serve their own agenda—their positions converge despite their declared hostility.

More troubling still is the sight of a Lebanese newspaper turning itself into a platform for Israeli far-right rhetoric whenever that rhetoric happens to serve the narrative it seeks to promote.

If a peace is settled and the borders bettwen this countries are open. What will you do first when u arrive to Israel or Lebanon ?

(Don't mind the photo i want to capt attention of people)

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For the first time since the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, the Lebanese state officially recognizes Israel

I am genuinely curious to know how Lebanese people in this sub feel about the details emerging vis-à-vis the Security Annex...

From my vantage point on the outside looking in, and I could be wrong, but it looks like the Lebanese government is signaling that it is so sick of Hezbollah that it is willing to tolerate an Israeli presence in its country if it means it helps defeat Hezbollah, which sends a very strong message to the Iranian regime. It also empowers the Lebanese government because the US government can now say to the Iranian regime "Look, we cannot tell Israel to leave if it goes against what the Lebanese government wants in their own country."

Thoughts?