David Daoud
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530 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 15 Aug
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They need us, so we get to set the parameters.
is an absolute technical term.
But look, we have to come in clear-eyed.
Like you know, we can't we can't come in the way Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been coming in and continuously saying that Hezbollah is an enemy of Lebanon as much as it is an enemy of Israel, the United States.
The fact of the matter is, as much as Hezbollah may be demonstrably hurting Lebanon, as much as Hezbollah's armed existence and the other activities that Hezbollah engages in, the
Politically or socially might be damaging the country of Lebanon.
It is up for up to Lebanon to decide what is an enemy and what is not.
And Lebanon has demonstrably not uh acted towards Hezbollah as if it is an enemy.
It acts towards Hezbollah as as it is in Lebanon, in the Lebanese context, uh, which is it is a a critical political and social component of Lebanon.
And that doesn't
I mean
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
And and Hezbollah has said this and I take them at face value because there's no there's no reason for them to surrender their arms other than coercion.
They have said they have rejected even you know, they've rejected disarmament generally, they've rejected any uh linkage between even total Israeli withdrawal and them surrendering their weapons.
History has proven that even if Israel withdraws from Lebanon has
Hezbollah will not surrender its weapons, right?
May 25th of 2000.
Uh this time uh 20 years ago, the Second Lebanon War ended when the eventual Israeli withdrawal happened.
Hezbollah didn't surrender its arms.
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