Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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And it's just not the case.
So it's important to note that Hezbollah comes from a certain context.
They rose in the context of South Lebanon during the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon.
They rose as the alternative to existing parties that were either seen as too complicit with the Israelis or maybe too weak or complacent or whatnot.
And essentially because there was a need for something like Hezbollah at the time.
And again, this is completely regardless of my personal opposition to a lot of their politics, whether it's in Lebanon or especially in Syria.
But that question, if you want to call it the Lebanese question, is completely being sidestepped.
It's not being tackled whatsoever.
And in fact, it's not that dissimilar, I think, from the Israeli attempt to erase or try to pretend as though the Palestinian question as well as can be completely sidestepped, that they can just continue to pursue this policy of just complete domination, as you said, you know, make these Arabic accordions with the UAE and some of the other Arab states, for example, without any mentions of Palestine or Palestinians and so on and so forth.
And in the case of Lebanon, it's less official because there isn't that component, but the spirit of it is pretty similar.
There is a sort of like a legalistic framework of the land for peace.
And I think explaining that at least briefly would, I think, contextualize the quote that you just read out to us here.
That, you know, the Israelis occupied Arab territories in 1967.
Palestinian territories, obviously, there being Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Egypt, of course, was the Sinai and Syria was and still is the Golden Heights.
And so the land for peace, quote unquote, worked in the case of Egypt.
They occupied the Sinai, and then as part of a peace deal with Egypt, they returned the Sinai to the Egyptians.
It didn't happen with Syria.
The Syrian Golan Heights have been occupied since 1967, were effectively de facto annexed in 1981.
They've been annexed for so long that Smotrich himself was born in an illegal settlement in the Syrian Golan Heights.
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