Matt Frei

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The Claire Byrne Show · We get the latest on the war in the Middle East · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

Don't hold your breath on that one.

So, but I mean, I think Trump realizes that if Israel and Hezbollah carry on fighting, this will then jeopardize the ceasefire with Iran, if that is to be extended after this weekend.

But remember one thing, Claire, Hezbollah, which is the party that Israel is fighting here, wasn't even around the negotiating table.

The Lebanese didn't want them around the negotiating table.

Israel and America regards Hezbollah as a terrorist group and doesn't deserve to sit around the negotiating table.

But if Iran wants to call upon Hezbollah as proxies,

to get involved in a fight on its behalf, then who's to say they won't, as they did at the beginning of this war?

So I think the whole thing is terribly fragile, to be honest.

Yeah, and Donald Trump saying on Truth Social, the United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah.

Is that a likely scenario?

Well, I mean, I'm sure that many Lebanese would agree with that, but it could be wishful thinking.

I mean, Hezbollah isn't just a kind of terrorist group that's been imposed on Lebanon from the outside.

I mean, to some extent it is, but it's also enmeshed in Lebanese society.

Lebanon has a Shiite community and Hezbollah are very much

doesn't just defend them and speak for them, but also provides schools for them and kindergartens and all sorts of other social services that the Lebanese government traditionally hasn't provided.

So Hezbollah, thanks to the Shia community in different parts of Lebanon, is part of Lebanese society.

They have several members in the Lebanese parliament.

They have two members of the 24-member cabinet are Hezbollah.

it's not a bit it's not like al qaeda or isis is sort of completely extraneous alien body that can somehow be cut out and and and cast aside or cast adrift they are part and parcel of lebanese society so the only thing the only way this works

is if the Lebanese government makes peace with Hezbollah and the Israelis are on board with that.

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