Friday, January 09, 2026

A Temporary Retreat and Not a Defeat

Hezbollah wants to rearm and resume its threat to Israel.

This news from December is not good enough even if narrowly successful eventually

The first phase of the plan to confiscate weapons from the Hezbollah terrorist group south of the Litani River will end in a "few days," Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in a statement on Saturday.

Salam's comments came as tensions continued to boil along Lebanon's eastern border, where Israel accuses Hezbollah of ignoring calls for disarmament and carrying out violations of a ceasefire agreed in November 2024.

We'll see how well that goes and what the next phase brings:

A US-backed ceasefire agreed in November 2024 required the disarmament of Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah, beginning in areas south of the river, the area adjacent to Israel. 

Israel is not happy--as in a dramatically kinetic way--about Hezbollah's persistent drive to rebuild a military threat to Israel. 

As long as Hezbollah has the Bekaa Valley, it can return south of the Litani and restock weapons.  

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NOTE: Image from the initial article.