David Daoud
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 15 Aug
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Uh, but how verification is going to happen.
when verification is going to happen and who's going to verify, all matter, all make the critical distinction of whether this is going to be another good thing on paper that in practice gets lost uh in kind of the negotiation process where the Lebanese are able to inject enough ambiguity and enough uh uh gaps between kind of the literal black letter of the law and what performance actually looks like.
So then we end up
In non-performance, because that's where Lebanon wants to go.
I mean, if we look at their instincts, Lebanon doesn't want to perform because performance has been clashing with Hezbollah, and nothing has fundamentally changed enough in Lebanon to make a clash with Hezbollah, a domestic clash with Hezbollah, be it political or armed, less costly.
So, you know, let's take a situation of verification, right?
So
If you, you know, even assuming you have parties, uh, so there's been negotiations the past couple of days um on who's going to help verify.
So Israel and Lebanon agree on, you know, these set of countries, we both trust them to verify.
All right, but what if verification happens post facto and not in real time?
And that's a concern that a colleague of mine, Ahmed Sharrawi and I raised in uh in an article we wrote recently, uh, because if it's post facto
Just uh or verification, and the LNF has had a history, according to the Israelis, and I'm inclined to believe this.
Um
Of presenting installations that Hezbollah has vacated for its own reasons as evidence of LAF performance.
Look, we took over the installation, look, it's empty.
And then they go and submit it to the mechanism that oversaw the November 2027, uh, 2024 ceasefire and say, look, we've performed, and that becomes evidence of performance.
Meanwhile, what's happened is that, again, an empty installation has been uh documented by the LA.
Hezbollah has perhaps moved its wares elsewhere, and everyone goes home.
So you need real-time verification given LAF's track record.
And then look, you have the Israelis since, you know, there's there's evidence to make the Israeli claim that the LAF has cut these deals more substantive.
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