Never Trust a Terrorist
As Israel continues managing its almost 80-year conflict with the Arabs, it becomes clear that Hezbollah in Lebanon will not give up its duplicitous behavior. As they seek to sabotage the ceasefire agreement with Israel, hammered out in the fall of 2024, Hezbollah wants primarily to remain viable. Just as their devilish brothers in Gaza hope to merely survive.
Most of the noise is coming from Gaza. Much is also coming from the Iranian front, as the world waits to see if President Trump will actually put teeth into his latest “threats” to Tehran.
The issue in Lebanon is disarmament of the terror group Hezbollah. Those devils, along with the PLO, have destabilized Lebanon for the last 40 years. It should be noted that Yasser Arafat and the PLO ruined that beautiful country in the 1970s. Beirut should be a tourist destination, but instead a state of war has existed for decades. Israel has cleaned-out much of the terror nests in the south, south of the Litani River.
It is the north that remains volatile. One frustrating detail remains active: Western diplomacy is keeping the conflict going. It has always been this way, stretch back at least to the 1960s. As we are seeing in the Gaza Strip, Western weakness and foot-dragging is keeping the terrorists on oxygen. They should have been uprooted and destroyed long ago, but no dice.
The witless American diplomats and White House operatives insist on doing the opposite of bringing about peace and safety. Remember, it has been Washington politicians on both sides of the aisle that have kept the killing going. We do have a serious upgrade in Marco Rubio at State (light years ahead of clowns like Warren Christopher and John Kerry). However, other slots are lagging, particularly with the always-problematic “Middle East envoy.” With Steve Witkoff, we are in as bad a spot as we were with Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk and the other line of mediocre and morally weak players.
Rubio can’t do it all on his own.
Israel wants Hezbollah disarmed permanently, obviously. Before they even think about withdrawing from the buffer zone—the same basic line they held in the 1980s—a serious degrading of Hezbollah must take place. Predictably, traitors like France’s Emmanuel Macron are still mucking it up by hosting terrorists for “talks.”
A fascinating report notes the following:
“The IDF continued attacking Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon and the Beqa’a Valley to enforce the November 2024 ceasefire agreement and prevent the organization’s renewed military build-up. In south Lebanon and the Beqa’a Valley the forces attacked crossings on the Lebanon-Syria border used to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah, weapons depots and a facility of the Radwan Force. In addition, four Hezbollah operatives were eliminated, including the head of a weapons-smuggling network.”
Amid all this is the ridiculous diplomatic push. A coalition committee overseeing the implementation of the ceasefire continues to embarrass us all.
“The future of the committee overseeing implementation of the ceasefire agreement remains uncertain. Given reports of American and Israeli attempts to shift the focus to the political level with direct talks between Israel and Lebanon and hold meetings at a United States base in Miami, the Lebanese government made it clear it was not prepared to make changes. The head of Lebanon’s civilian delegation to the talks said if he received a mandate from the Lebanese leadership to conduct political talks with Israel, he wanted them held in Tel Aviv.”
Interesting. They want talks on Israeli soil.
Continuing with the predictability of this overall mediocrity is the insertion of Qatar into the proceedings. The Muslim Brotherhood-friendly country—very friendly with the Trump administration and in particular businessmen Witkoff and Jared Kushner—has insisted it will rebuild three destroyed villages in south Lebanon…with help from an American company.
This past week the IDF continued attacking Hezbollah targets to enforce the November 2024 ceasefire agreement and prevent Hezbollah from a renewed military buildup. The forces attacked four crossings on the Syria-Lebanon border used to smuggle weapons for Hezbollah, weapons depots above and below ground, a structure at a Radwan Force camp and other terrorist facilities in south Lebanon and the Beqa’a Valley. Four Hezbollah terrorist operatives were eliminated, including a liaison in the village of Yanouh, the head of a weapons-smuggling network and an artillery commander. The Lebanese ministry of health reported four killed and 26 wounded in IDF attacks (al-Nashra, January 20–26, 2026).
At the Davos summit this past week, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that he is committed to rebuilding the country, and he even claimed that for the first time since 1969, Lebanon was “exercising full operational control” south of the Litani River.
And don’t think the clerics have stopped their incitement.
“In his Friday sermon, Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan accused the Lebanese state of abandoning the south, the Beqa’a Valley and the Dahiyeh al-Janoubia, and claimed a systematic move was underway to weaken and possibly harm the Shi’ite community, with establishment backing or indifference. He criticized demands for a state monopoly on weapons north of the Litani River, arguing that such measures served an ‘American-Zionist project’ whose objective was neutralizing Lebanon’s power factors and leaving it exposed. He noted the role of the state in protecting its citizens and sovereignty and warned against continued official silence in the face of what he claimed was an ongoing war against the Shi’ite community and the areas in which it lived.”
As with Iran, we hope historic opportunities will be taken to de-fang the murderers. It should be obvious to all thinking people that this is the only way to a cold peace as we have seen with Egypt and Jordan. Short of eliminating the snake in Tehran, and the snakes in other Middle East countries, we are just pushing the next outright conflict a few blocks down the street.
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