Janice Gross-Stein

So no one knows.

Displacing a population cements anger toward Israel into the future.

It is a, frankly, failed strategy.

And Israel does it, and this government in particular does it because they don't have a better option.

And look, Rudyard,

This was a week of a ceasefire.

Ceasefires are always good news, no matter what, right?

So the ceasefire is historic in the sense that there was direct conversation between the president, President Aoun of Lebanon,

and the Prime Minister of Israel.

That's a first.

It was obviously done through the White House.

There was one missing party, you may have noticed, Hezbollah, and it has still not formally agreed.

But it is really important, Roger, from two perspectives.

Frankly, when you look back at the last

really beginning in the 80s, the last 40 years, the worst fighting has taken place between Israel and Hezbollah on the territory of Lebanon.

And the state was so weak because of its own civil war that effectively you had an autonomous South Lebanon in which Hezbollah

not only was the strongest military force, but was a political party in the government and nobody could take them on.

That's the context here.

Yeah, for sure it is, Rudyard.

And look, this has been, this kind of strategy, although this one went further faster, has been on the agenda for 40 years and it hasn't solved the problem.