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Hezbollah will never negotiate with Israel that only knows language of force: MP

Iran Press TV

Thursday, 06 November 2025 10:37 AM

A Lebanese lawmaker says the Hezbollah resistance movement will not engage in negotiations with Israel under any circumstances, stressing that the occupying regime only knows the language of force.

"The mechanism of the ceasefire agreement reached last year was a kind of indirect negotiation through mediators," said Ihab Hamadeh, a member of Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc - the political wing of Hezbollah in the Lebanese parliament - on Wednesday evening.

"Given such a fact, the assumption that Lebanon has officially agreed with all its institutions to direct negotiations with the Zionist regime and is set to push the matter to the limit of [any possible] negotiation framework is false," he added.

Hamadeh underscored that no negotiating framework was presented to Hezbollah, and what the Lebanese government accepted in last year's ceasefire agreement was also accepted by the resistance group in the form under which the accord had been finalized.

"It was a balanced formula in favor of Lebanon. Therefore, any initiative aimed at working out another negotiating formula would be a blow to the previous one," the Lebanese legislator pointed out.

He pointed to "the high level of pressure on President Joseph Aoun" on the issue, saying, "We must approach the existing issues realistically. Hezbollah's position is clear: We will not negotiate with the Israelis under any circumstances."

Israel only understands language of force

Hamadeh noted that even if the conditions change, Israel understands only the language of force. "The cost of confronting the enemy is much less than the cost of surrender. The Zionist regime wants a buffer zone on our border for its own sake to ensure the security of the northern part of the occupied lands."

The comments come as Aoun stressed on Monday that Lebanon's "only choice" is negotiations with Israel.

"Lebanon has no choice other than negotiation, seeing as in politics there are three work tools: diplomacy, economy, and war. When war does not lead to any result, what can we do? The end of every war in the world has been negotiation, and negotiation does not take place with a friend or an ally, but rather with an enemy," Aoun said.

"The rhetoric of negotiation is more important than the rhetoric of war, which we know what it has done to us, and also the rhetoric of diplomacy, which we are all endorsing, from Speaker Nabih Berri to Prime Minister Nawaf Salam," the president emphasized.