Professor: Hezbollah’s lack of cooperation

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00:00But he also talked about giving Hezbollah a sense of a future,

00:04that this plan isn't just a plan against them.

00:07What do you think of that approach?

00:11And has any of this got a chance of working?

00:13Well, definitely it has a chance of working if Hezbollah are actually willing to cooperate.

00:19Yet we have seen that yesterday Hezbollah's chief was very clear in attacking all of this

00:25so-called initiative for peace, calling them as a kind of a surrender.

00:30So I think the problem here that Barak reminded everyone that Hezbollah is a Lebanese entity

00:36and thus this is a Lebanese problem now.

00:38Yet at the same time, he did mention the fact that the whole mechanism between Lebanon, Israel,

00:44that included the Lebanese army and the Western observers have failed,

00:50meaning that he has warned of a potential escalation of violence if a clear roadmap

00:57and more importantly, a timeline for disarming Hezbollah is not put on the table.

01:01And I believe that the way that Barak is going about it,

01:07he believes that he can get more flies with honey than vinegar.

01:11But at the same time, I think there is a disconnect between what he's trying to do

01:14and what the Lebanese establishment is refusing to acknowledge

01:17that we have entered a new phase in the region and Hezbollah should not be on the table.

01:22while in fact, he's a member of the government.

01:24Hezbollah has two representatives in the Lebanese government

01:26and yet they have refrained from joining in this official reply to Barak.