Michael Knowles

They want to annex southern Lebanon.

If you look at Israel's history, you will see that Israel has carried out multiple invasions into Lebanon, including in the 1980s,

which led to the formation of Hezbollah as a resistance group.

So Hezbollah is really the only challenge to Israel when it comes to annexing land in Lebanon.

So Hezbollah is different from the government, right?

So they are not in cahoots at all.

It's an established political party that has widespread support in southern Lebanon.

I want to be clear about that.

But they are willing to use, you know,

force, right?

Any force necessary in order to push back against the IDF's attempts at annexing land.

So the Israelis can have as many conversations with the Lebanese government as they want, but the Lebanese government has no control over Hezbollah.

And in fact, disarming Hezbollah would lead to a serious civil war in Lebanon.

It's impossible.

The Lebanese military is incredibly weak.

Hezbollah is actually stronger than the Lebanese military.

By the way,

by design.

So if you look at these Middle Eastern countries and how leadership has changed or how regime changes have taken place, it's always in an effort to install a puppet government or a puppet regime that will be deferential to Israel and its expansionist policies.

Or they will do regime change in an effort to destabilize a country, which is what happened in Lebanon, I'm sorry, in Libya and also Syria.