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  1. forgive my ignornace as I join after Shabbat:
    1. Are Lebanees (hiding Hezbollah) returning to southern Lebanon? Didn’t head of IDF say: they wiill NOT return till security for northern Israel is secured?
    2. Hitler outsmarted Chamberlaine who came to him with the gift of “peace on our time” and attacked. Same with Iran outsmarting Trump now ?

    • @Renanah Goldhar-Gemeiner
      1. Yes, they are returning, but Israel has established a similar Yellow Line as exists in Gaza, and anyone crossing the Yellow Line will be eliminated, but this does not affect those areas north of the Yellow Line where the Lebanese are returning to their homes.

      2. It appears that Trump provided enough concessions to Iran to embolden them towards demanding more. We will see if this is simply momentary bravado on part of the Iranian negotiators, but what is being recognized is that the real power in Iran is currently being held by the IRGC leadership, not the likes of Ghalibaf who is believed to be a talking head rather than the strongman controlling the regime. In recent hours Ghalibaf has noted that talks with the US have moved forward with some agreements but that there are still large disagreements which prevent a final agreement at the moment.

      As to whether Trump has been outsmarted by Iran, I would argue that negotiating with this regime, even the rump of what is left of this regime, is rather like shadow boxing with one’s self. In other words, the notion that this regime can or should be allowed to survive by way of a negotiated settlement is an act of self-delusion. In this way, it is very much like the Munich Agreement which Chamberlain waved in lieu of fighting Hitler. What is very different from what took place under Chamberlain is that Trump has already committed his military assets in making war on Iran. So while Chamberlain was defeated without firing a shot, if Trump allows the IRGC to persist, it will be like the Allies in WWII allowing Hitler or his Nazi regime to continue to rule in lieu of taking the war to its final conclusion.

      • Thank you. It is a great confort to recieve the clarity that you contribute.
        May I quote here from Arieh Stav’s “Czechoslovakia 1938-Israel Today (written in 2020): “Chamberlain was pleased and showered praises on Benes whose “country had made heavy sacrifices for peace” He then asked for a meeting with Hitler as soon as possible in order to give him the good news personally that his conditions for vivisecting Czechoslovakia had been accepted. Hitler summoned the British Prime Minister to come to him on September 22 at Bad Godesberg, on he east bank of the Rhine. Chameberlain gave Hitler the details of the Anglo-French Plan, he indicated that fact that in the main the plan was a copy of the Fuher’s own demands and he stessed his own part in breaking Praques’s resistnace. However, to the Prime Minister’s great astonishment, Hitler’s response was: “I am very sorry, but I am no longer ineterested in this.”