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Lebanon and the Lebanese people have been here before. Israel has been here before too. Believe it or not, the Iran-aligned Hezbollah militia has also been here before, cornered and struggling for its domestic survival. In the past, Hezbollah has repeatedly been offered a lifeline by Israel’s misconceived, misdirected and disproportionate attacks on Lebanon, instead of it holding the Assad regime or Iran to account.
The Lebanese people have seen their country bombed and destroyed before. Once for hosting Palestinian resistance forces and time and again due to their nation being hijacked by Syria and its desire to resist and fight Israel through Lebanese armed groups. In 2005, the Assad regime handed the torch to Iran, which established a so-called axis of resistance and, through Hezbollah, hijacked the Lebanese state and put it at the service of its own agenda.
Fast forward to 2026 and the Lebanese people had, before March 1, tried for 15 months to reclaim their sovereignty and independence, attempting to peacefully disarm Hezbollah. However, that dream became the latest to be shattered by Israeli shortsightedness and Hezbollah’s emboldened, pro-Iranian, sectarian stance.
