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Like Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is determined to have the terror group Hezbollah disarmed. For he knows that it is Hezbollah, by violating the terms of the ceasefire that Lebanon had negotiated with Israel, and instead of disarming has been launching missiles and drones into Israel, has brought about, as it has so often in the past, a world of woe for the Lebanese. It is no longer just the Christians and the Sunni Muslims in Lebanon who detest Hezbollah; even many of the Shiite do so as well, for it is they whose neighborhoods in southern Beirut and the Bekaa Valley are being struck by the IDF, and it is they who have been forced to leave areas from which the IDF has warned them they should do, for it plans to strike Hezbollah throughout those areas. By now a million Lebanese have moved from Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, to the west and north of the country, with Hezbollah operatives remaining behind to carry on their war against Israel, but without the benefit of having Lebanese civilians to hide among.
More on Nawaf Salam’s determination to disarm Hezbollah can be found here: “Lebanese PM backs disarming Hezbollah, blames group for dragging country into war – report,” by Leo Freierberg Better, Jerusalem Post, March 23, 2026:
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam expressed support for his government’s decision to disarm Hezbollah and blamed the terror group for dragging Lebanon into a wider regional war in a Sunday interview with Saudi newspaper Al-Hadath.
Salam also endorsed talks with Israel and called for the expulsion of Iranian operatives from Lebanon.
Following American and Israeli strikes on Iran at the end of February, on March 2, Hezbollah joined the war by launching a six-missile attack on Israel as supposed revenge for the assassination of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
When asked about Hezbollah’s entry into the war, Salam was firm in saying that the war “is not Lebanon’s choice.”…
“I will not yield to [Hezbollah’s] coercion,” he said, adding that “the consolidation of weapons has become more urgent,” given the cost of the conflict.
“We are committed to these decisions,” he said, adding they would take time to implement but that the government “will not back down.”
Salam, whose government has been vocally opposed to Iranian influence in Lebanon, linked Hezbollah’s actions to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps activity.
“This is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which is present and which is carrying out the operations, unfortunately,” he said, citing a report from Iranian state media of a coordinated joint attack on Israel by Iran and Hezbollah.
Nawaf Salam knows that there are Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operatives working with Hezbollah inside Lebanon, determined to keep a second front open with Israel, and coordinating with Hezbollah. As long as the IRGC is in Lebanon, it will be urging Hezbollah both to continue launching its attacks on Israel and to resist any attempts by the Lebanese National Army to disarm it.
“Negotiation doesn’t mean recognition,” Salam said, adding that Lebanon had previously entered into direct negotiations with Israel during the 1980s.
Salam has to offer this kind of assurance so as not to anger those in Lebanon who remain firmly anti-Israel, but his own rhetoric suggests that he does not share those feelings. Both he and President Aoun have absolved Israel of responsibility for Lebanon’s current woes, putting all the blame on Hezbollah.
“We have expressed our readiness to negotiate,” he also said, adding that Israel had offered no response as of yet.
The statements by Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam are indicative of a Lebanese state more confident than before, fortified with recent shipments of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of American weapons, and aware that Iran can no longer supply Hezbollah with weapons or money as it used to do; the Islamic State is fighting for its life. Both President Aoun and Prime Minister Salam now blame Hezbollah for the destruction in Lebanon and sound ready to use force to disarm a refractory Hezbollah. And the IDF, now widening its campaign in Lebanon with hundreds of strikes on Hezbollah operatives, as well as infrastructure, including bridges, residential buildings, and command centers, prompting mass displacement of over one million people, will be happy to help out.
Photo credit: Ali.chawki.akil, Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication.
No much to negotiate with Lebanon until/unless they regain control of their own country.
best of luck with that fiction . as prof. dan schueftan commented , you cant deal with barbarians . especially ones that believe it is martyrdom to die as it gives you a free pass to paradise . a euphemism for hell that infidels know of . you cant do diplomatic jargon with the depraved .