Ronen Bergman

In Iran, the war is not over.

Iran is still sending missiles at Israel after Netanyahu said the problem is remote.

And now they realize that Hezbollah, that Lebanon, the front is not over because Hezbollah is shooting.

So it's all like open fronts, one after the other.

After almost three years of war, it's still everything is open.

The main lesson that Israel learned, and it's not just Netanyahu, you'll hear this from the lowest rank officer of the IDF or any other employee of the Israeli defense establishment.

The lesson they learned from October 7 is never let a hostile force grow and get too strong

Once this force declares that its goal is to eliminate the state of Israel.

So the end game from Israel is to dismantle Hezbollah, disarm Hezbollah.

This can be done in only three ways.

It's either Hezbollah doesn't follow its own will.

Yeah, not very, not very.

Second is that the Lebanese government will.

go in full force, take the weapon, and enforce its sovereignty over Hezbollah.

Now, this is something that the Lebanese government committed to do in the agreement of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon from September, October 2024.

They failed.

So the only alternative is that Israel will conquer Lebanon

and dismantle Hezbollah, something that Israel doesn't want to do.

They tried that in 1982, and it ended up very badly.

And in the meantime, just to give some sense of security to the communities in the north, they create a buffer zone, a strip inside Lebanon where they'll have forces that will divide between citizens and refugees.