Deal which only stops Hezbollah from adding weapons recipe for disaster

Deal which only stops Hezbollah from getting more weapons recipe for disaster
Dr. Aaron Lerner 11 November 2024

While UNSCR 1701 requires that Hezbollah be completely disarmed (see below), reports of the “deal” only describe measures to prevent Hezbollah from getting MORE weapons.

Under the deal, Hezbollah holds onto, among other things, the long-range and mid-range missiles it has today.

We are assured “yihyeh b’seder” (it will be ok) because 80% of Hezbollah’s missiles have been destroyed.

So if we accept this deal we will find ourselves participating in a debating society in the future as to whether a particular missile that Hezbollah has in its possession was added to its inventory after the ceasefire.

And we are going to have the Russian apparently as a participant in the debating society.

Anyone who thinks that this debating society arrangement is going to work simply has no business engaging in policy making.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 (2006)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 5511th meeting, on 11 August 2006
“The Security Council,
… 8. Calls for Israel and Lebanon to support …full implementation of the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, and of resolutions 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006), that require the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon, so that, pursuant to the Lebanese cabinet decision of 27 July 2006, there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese State;”