The arrangement, involving swapped fuel and unpaid debt, bypassed institutional oversight, sustaining both governments without reform. This pattern of personalized, elite-driven cooperation mirrors their sectarian power-sharing systems and deepens mutual vulnerability.
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Expanding the international monitoring mechanism to include civilian dialogue is a positive step, but its success hinges on actively supervising Lebanon’s phased disarmament of Hezbollah. A credible verification process is needed to build trust between Israel and Lebanon and prevent military confrontation.
Lebanon’s government shows extreme deference to Hezbollah, stalling on disarmament and failing to prosecute political assassinations like the Beirut port blast. The state’s inaction has effectively outsourced the task of confronting the militia to Israeli military strikes.