Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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Netanyahu was met with a tsunami of protests across the board from Israelis, from the secular Israelis, from the opposition leaders as well, who said, we cannot let this linkage exist.
Israel must have the ability to operate anywhere it chooses under this new security doctrine.
Even though
In Lebanon, as the security officials openly admit, they don't have a strategy for how to deal with Lebanon, and it is going badly wrong for them.
The buffer zone didn't work 20 years ago, and it's certainly not working now, and instead of which they're suffering heavy casualties.
as they are still in South Lebanon, still destroying towns, clearing towns out.
They are suffering heavy casualties from Hezbollah, which are using new drones
with cyber optic connection, which are exhausting large casualties.
There's no figures for the casualties, but I estimate roughly about 8 to 10 casualties on the Israeli side per day.
And so I was trying to explain why Lebanon has become neuralgic in this equation.
because it goes to the very crux of this new doctrine that Israel has adopted, the doctrine of permanent security, security to the root, whether it is Iran, whether it is in Syria, whether it is in West Bank.
This is the new doctrine.
And this is now being challenged, it seems, first of all, by Iran having succeeded in linking it in the CISFA arrangements and Trump having to admit it and Trump having to take action with Netanyahu.
And so now the big pushback is coming back and people are telling Netanyahu in Israel, listen, you've got to go on attacking Lebanon.
You can't stop.
You've got to keep going.
We will not accept this direct linkage.
And what is Netanyahu's choice?
He can object.
But I'm trying to say that it's presented in the press a lot as if there's a sort of rivalry between Netanyahu and Trump, and it's all about who's in charge of whom and who's subordinate to whom.
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