U.S.-backed Israeli tactics in Lebanon repeat 1982’s errors, risking a stronger Hezbollah and a fractured state.
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Hezbollah’s endurance and Israel’s strategic overreach reveal why total victory in Lebanon remains unattainable.
Lebanon must disarm Hezbollah to extend the truce; Israel retains full self-defense rights.
Battlefield blows against Hezbollah open a rare diplomatic window for Israeli-Lebanese peace.
Disarming Hezbollah is unattainable. Excluding its political base guarantees the Lebanon ceasefire will fail.
DDR model for Hezbollah: phased disarmament, state monopoly on force, and Israel-Lebanon peace talks.
Lebanon challenges Hezbollah. Can Iraq and Yemen follow? Aoun speaks, but the world watches from a distance.
Punishing Lebanon, not just Hezbollah, risks entrenching the militant group and turning the Lebanese people against Israel.
Lebanon pays for Hormuz via diesel price doubling and generator bills rising 35%, not direct shortages—imported inflation hits a bankrupt state.
Lebanon’s political landscape shifts as Nabih Berri hedges against Hezbollah’s instability to preserve Shia influence and institutional survival through strategic maneuvering.