There is a paradoxical claim at the heart of Israeli policy toward Lebanon, one that has become so routine that it goes almost unnoticed. Israel insists, correctly, that the Lebanese state must disarm Hezbollah and assert sovereign control over its own territory. It then does everything within its considerable power to ensure that the Lebanese state cannot do so—impeding U.S. military assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), attacking the infrastructure of governance, and hobbling the one international force mandated to support Lebanese authority in the south.
Read Prof. Simon's full article in Foreign Policy HERE!