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Source: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/on-hezbollahs-disarmament-israel-will-not-compromise
On Hizbullah's Disarmament, Israel Will Not Compromise
(National Interest) David Schenker - Israel and Lebanon signed a ceasefire to end the Hizbullah-Israel war in November 2024. In the deal, Beirut committed to disarm Hizbullah. Today, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is collecting weapons and dismantling Hizbullah infrastructure in the south of the country, but Beirut is balking about undertaking its obligations in the north. Fearing civil war, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun started talking about "containing" Hizbullah's weapons north of the Litani. Yet there will be no peace, no sovereignty, and no reconstruction for postwar Lebanon absent the confiscation of Hizbullah weapons. Hizbullah is currently at its weakest point, but left intact, it will certainly reconstitute. The writer, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (2019-21).