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| Israel-Lebanon ceasefire a dangerous fiction in the war against Hezbollah - analysis |
| 2026-05-18 |
| [Jpost] It’s only natural to want to applaud the extension of a ceasefire. After all, who doesn’t want a ceasefire: a halt, if only temporary, to rockets falling, drones buzzing, and bombs exploding? The problem is that the US State Department’s Friday announcement — following another round of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon in Washington — extending the ceasefire between the two countries is something of a fiction. Why? Because it is not the government of Lebanon that decided to wage war against Israel, first on October 8, 2023, and then again on March 2, 2026. It is Hezbollah, the terrorist organization that owns a commanding stake in the country, and whom the rest of the shareholders either cannot — or do not want, out of sympathy — to control. And it is Hezbollah that is firing drones at Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, there to prevent the terrorist organization from once again setting up a base of operations directly on Israel’s border, with the expressed intent of, at some point, launching an October 7-style invasion of the Upper Galilee. Israel and Lebanon are formally in a state of war, and have been since 1948, so talks between the governments, through their ambassadors in Washington, are not insignificant. But a ceasefire with Lebanon doesn’t mean much, since their armies aren’t fighting one another. IMO, the problem with the current situation is that it doesn't give |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |