Hezbollah’s Weapons and Moshe Ya’alon’s Proposed Lebanese Strategy

I also hope you listen to this text,

because it concerns the Lebanese interior, the Lebanese interior which debates,

which distorts,

which screams and does not know where on earth it stands. This man says: "

It was clear to me that Hezbollah is a deeply rooted phenomenon,

that it will not be crushed through a military operation.

It was also clear to me that there is no decisive military solution in confronting

Hezbollah’s missile system." Therefore, this is a chief of staff,

a strategic theorist, what does he say? " Therefore I encouraged a political

effort that would ultimately lead to the disarmament of Hezbollah as the outcome of

an internal Lebanese process."

As the outcome of an internal movement you address the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons.

Some Lebanese are doing what Israel wants,

they are saying what Israel wants,

whether they know it or do not know it, and they may not know it. Why?

Because they do not read. He continues:"

I realized that there is no way to uproot Hezbollah..."

Even Israel, when it looks at Lebanon,

unfortunately looks at it in a sectarian way, and so Moshe Ya’alon says: "

I realized there

is no way to uproot Hezbollah from the hearts of the Shia in Lebanon,

and I also realized there is no means to eliminate the threat of Katyusha rockets

once and for all. Based on that, I proposed working

in a political and military way to contain Hezbollah and restrict

its room for maneuver, so that in the end they would see it in Lebanon

as illegitimate." This is what is required, that we get the Lebanese people

to the point where they see Hezbollah as illegitimate, its weapons as illegitimate.

This is the solution, this is the solution. Israel has no solution other than

this solution. Not a July war, nor August, nor September, nor October, nor November,

nor anything at all, there is no war that can inflict

defeat on this believing, fighting, martyrdom- seeking, self- sacrificing party.

Therefore they are betting on internal factors.

Here the Lebanese need to wake up,

they need to wake up. Take it easy. I want to reassure you, some of the brothers,

some of our supporters,

some of our loved ones get a bit worried, some analyses carry them away.

No one should worry, relax, calm down, be reassured. A war like the

war of July that did not…