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When “peace” becomes synonymous with chaos, you can be certain Israel is there. No state in the region has practiced violence and bloodshed in the name of peace as systematically as Israel. Nor has it seen a person more brazen than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who calls for peace through killing and destruction. Within 10 minutes, he unleashes 100 airstrikes on Lebanon, killing more than 300 civilians and wounding over 1,150. The next day, he appears before the world announcing his readiness to enter negotiations with Lebanon for peace and the disarmament of Hezbollah.
However, the real danger lies elsewhere — in how the Lebanese government will respond. The question is whether it possesses the political maturity to navigate this existentially sensitive moment, or whether it will succumb to the kind of recklessness that risks plunging Lebanon into a new phase of chaos.
Why call it recklessness? Because it risks enabling Netanyahu’s strategic cunning to ignite an internal rupture in Lebanon, potentially the most severe since the end of the civil war in 1990.
Across a region where few would wish for anything short of Netanyahu’s political demise, it is striking to see the Lebanese government’s political establishment extending him what amounts to a lifeline, pulling him back from the brink of collapse triggered by the early outcomes of the war on Iran and Lebanon.
