As with all direct or indirect negotiations, there is a break time for coffee, lunch or dinner, and this issue is common in all local, regional or global meetings, and since indirect negotiations between Lebanon and the Israeli enemy in Naqoura are carried out under the auspices of the United Nations and under Its banner, with an American “facilitating” mediation that lasts for hours and often interspersed with the date of lunch, the international sponsor suspends the negotiations for a specific time for lunch and then continue later.
However, what happened in the last round of attempts to convey a different image to what is happening inside the negotiating tent, shows once again that the Israeli side, together with the international sponsor and the American mediator, are responding to facts. that violate the nature of the negotiation, even if it is formal, firing cameras to take even a fleeting photo and showing it as An important development “and chemistry” began to circulate among the delegations and, in fact, it will never ride in this chemistry, because the Lebanese delegation goes with a unanimous national Lebanese mission, which is to establish Lebanese rights on land and sea borders under the roof of the political decision of the constitutional authorities, especially the combined Lebanese government. Only he has the last word on what demarcation should be.
Virtual lunch
So what happened at the hypothetical lunch break in the final round of demarcation negotiations?
After almost three hours of negotiations, and with lunch time, the international sponsor stopped the session and adjourned it for the delegates to have lunch, and each delegation stayed at their table, the Israeli at a table and in the international center with the American and the Lebanese at their table, and there was no table that gathered all the delegations or buffet. It is open, but the only thing that exists is that a “sandwich” with bottles of water and juices was distributed to the delegates without any partnership, neither at the table nor in the selection of food.
Undercover female soldier
Meanwhile, a female soldier from the Israeli delegation slipped from the table of her delegation to the table of the international and US delegation, and sat very close to the table of the Lebanese delegation, which was returning to the table of the international and American delegation, and it appears that the official photographer of the United Nations forces operating in South Lebanon (UNIFIL) was complicit with the Israeli female soldier and deliberately taking a photo from a certain angle that looks as if the Israeli soldier is at a joint lunch with the Lebanese delegation, but what is a lie about this job is that what was marketed through the stolen image, this investment is a lie because one of the members of the Lebanese delegation that appeared in the image was giving back to table. To which the female soldier sat.
A mobilized delegation
All this proves that the Lebanese delegation that goes to Naqoura in each round of negotiations is mobilized to the most distant borders so as not to fall into intrigues or lapses, and is based on a broad national mandate from its military leadership and the President of the Republic, But it is negotiating on three fronts, Israeli, international and American. The fact that they together want a different negotiation path than it is in terms of form, in which the interaction is automatic and without restrictions or prohibitions, and this matter will not be dragged to the Lebanese delegation under any consideration.
