Rabbi Walicki

Well, I mean, the Lebanon situation has been an open sore since the official ceasefire.

And I say official ceasefire because it hasn't really been much of a ceasefire that was struck over a year ago.

And, you know, the Lebanese government had committed itself to disarming Hezbollah by the end of 2025.

And, of course, they did nothing about it, not because they didn't want to, but because

but they're actually incapable of disarming Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is a much stronger army, even in its weakened state, than the Lebanese army itself.

And there's also this Shiite population that would have resisted.

But now that Hezbollah made the tragic mistake, a mistake, frankly, I'll be perfectly frank, the Israelis were hoping they would make, of firing missiles at Israel in support of the Iranian regime.

They just invited the Israelis in to finish the job and disarm Hezbollah themselves.

So that's what the Israelis are doing now.

They're going in there.

And the Lebanese are playing this funny game where they're no longer...

complaining about Israeli airstrikes as they used to.

It used to be when Hezbollah would attack Israel, Israel would attack Hezbollah positions, and then the Lebanese government would make noises about being upset about Israel attacking.

And now that's not happening.

You actually have even Shiites in the population, even the Amal party, which is a Shiite party that for decades has been the partner in the government with Hezbollah, which also functions as a political party.

Amal voted

to declare Hezbollah illegal the other day.

So Hezbollah is now isolated in Lebanon.

Israel's going in to finish them off.