BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- Lebanese President 
Joseph Aoun has unveiled a stunning proposal for a “security deal” with Israel, a supremacist entity whose military has slaughtered more than 4,300 Lebanese citizens since March and continues to systematically demolish southern Lebanon. 
The offer, made in an interview with AFP on Thursday, exposes a presidency adrift, desperate, and dangerously naive — one that appears incapable of grasping the reality of Israeli aggression or the humiliation of its own failed diplomacy.
Aoun described the proposed arrangement as a potential “prelude to peace,” claiming it would end hostilities and allow the Lebanese army to deploy on the border. 
“We have no choice but negotiations,” he declared, “because the alternative is war, which would be very costly for us.”
Yet this logic collapses under scrutiny. Lebanon is already at war — not by choice, but by Israeli design. 
Occupation forces are carrying out major demolitions and detonations in Mansouri and across the south, erasing civilian infrastructure while the world watches. 
Aoun’s call for dialogue comes not in a vacuum but in the midst of this devastation, making his overture appear less like statecraft and more like surrender dressed in diplomatic language.
The president’s proposal follows a disgraceful ceasefire agreement that Israel has violated with impunity. That deal, brokered under U.S. pressure, obliges the Zionist regime to nothing while demanding immediate Hezbollah disarmament before any discussion of Israeli withdrawal. 
It even bars Lebanon from pursuing legal complaints against Israel in international courts over its war crimes — a clause that should have been rejected outright as a violation of the Lebanese constitution.
Aoun’s willingness to entertain further deals with a terrorist entity that respects no agreement only emboldens Israel to continue its campaign of destruction. It signals weakness, not strength; desperation, not strategy. 
Hezbollah and its ally the Amal Movement have vowed the framework “will not pass,” insisting they will remain in the field against the U.S.-Israeli project for Lebanon.
Meanwhile, U.S. Ambassador Michel Issa — of Lebanese descent — has shuttled between Beirut and Israeli occupied territories, meeting with war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, a man he could not legally meet had he not renounced his Lebanese citizenship. 
The ambassador’s deep involvement in talks that undermine Lebanon’s sovereignty reveals how external powers are dictating terms to a president who seems all too willing to comply.
Aoun’s “prelude to peace” is a prelude to capitulation. Lebanon deserves leaders who defend its dignity, not ones who mistake submission for statesmanship.