Marc Lynch

And I'm not just worried about what happens to Iran.

I'm worried about what happens to us.

I mean, when you're threatening something on the scale of genocide, I am terrified that we as citizens in what's supposed to be the greatest democracy are having things done in our name over which we have absolutely no control on a scale that offends us when anybody else in the world does it.

And so that's why I think it's a terrifying moment.

What do you make of that?

Yes, and I think this is the consequence of lack of accountability, because, you know, this is what Lapid said, and it's good that you started it, because he's supposed to be much more moderate.

But if you listen to the defense minister, who's actually making the decisions,

He says, basically, we're going to do what we did in Gaza.

We're going to do what we did in Rafah.

So in essence, if we have to defend ourselves, everything is legitimate.

There are no rules of law.

There is no human rights.

There's no difference between civilian and combatant.

I say that literally because obviously you're uprooting entire villages and you're actually destroying the homes to make sure they don't return and destroying the infrastructure, following the book in Gaza, including health institutions and hospitals.

so that the people don't have an infrastructure to service them.

And even going more than that, because now they're calling on non-Shia Lebanese, whether they're Christian or Sunni or Druze, not to host Shia, because essentially it's all the same.

Shia, therefore...

It's just like Palestinian, therefore Hamas.

Gazan, therefore Hamas.

Now Shia, therefore Hezbollah.