Hezbollah's Weakness and a Possible Lebanon Settlement Without Full-Scale War

There is In the adversary system's logic, in my view, he is a leader with extensive experience who has taken a very hard blow from the cumulative way Hezbollah has been hit over the past year, especially what happened this past week.

He very, very much does not want an all-out war, and here there may be a convergence of interests with the Israeli logic that we understand: mutual deterrence, where neither side wants a war on a full scale because of its heavy cost. We rather got drawn into this event because he decided to open a campaign on the eighth

of the month, yet I still think that in the situation that has arisen, it is right to build on the military achievement in Lebanon without reaching an all-out war.

Let me sum up what you're saying. The current weakness of Hezbollah can be exploited, not necessarily to start a war whose outcome is uncertain, but rather to press, to push toward an arrangement, and then Gaza and Lebanon can also be linked into an arrangement.

Yes, but the arrangement needs to come from a position of strength that ultimately brings about the removal of the Radwan Force and the forces that immediately threatened the border to a distance of Ten or more kilometers. Changing UNIFIL's mandate,

so it has a much more robust mandate to deploy the Lebanese Army in the south and double or triple the size of the IDF force that will defend the northern communities in the coming years, and imposing an arms embargo, which is part of Resolution 1701.