Pretending to Disarm Hezbollah Won’t Work
Peloni: Lebanon’s failure to disarm Hezbollah was not only predictable, it was inevitable. The Lebanese lack the independence and agency with which to unseat Iran’s dominance over them. The way to even approach this goal is thru the destruction of the Mullahs’ powerbase in Tehran, and only then might something substantially different take form in Lebanon. Until then, the kabuki theatrical shell game in Lebanon will continue unabated, no matter what is agreed to by anyone.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain | April 1, 2025
By Yeghishedaviti – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lebanon is pretending to disarm Hezbollah and thinks that the world believes it. Then, when the world calls Beirut out, Lebanese officials engage in collective delusion and blame “Israeli aggression” for military escalation. Lebanon is now reneging on the ceasefire and the 1701 enforcement mechanism that it signed, in November, in which it pledged to disarm Hezbollah and, in return, get territory back from Israel.