Dana El-Kurd

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.

And I'm mentioning this because the Lebanese state, the prime minister I mentioned earlier, about what, a week ago, 10 days ago or so, said that he's hoping for a land for peace framework, which to me shows just how desperate even they are.

Like they don't know what to do.

They have no options in front of them.

So what they're hoping is that by doing all of these things, public declarations against Hezbollah, by declaring some of their activities illegal, by, I think like a few days ago, they said that the media cannot call them the resistance, for example, which is there in Arabic, how they would be referred to and so on and so forth.

These attempts to placate the Americans especially and so on, and maybe like show that, you know, we're doing something about this.

Can you stop the Israelis essentially?

haven't achieved anything.

The Israelis have just escalated, continued to escalate, continued to bomb more and more and more larger and larger parts of the country.

But that land for peace framework, which is the framework since the 60s, basically, is, as far as I can tell right now, the only thing that the Lebanese government hope that they can even use.

But the difficulty in all of that, like, A, I don't think it's realistic because of the Syrian example.

Like, they haven't, they have never given up