Is the US Doing Enough To Restrain Israel in Lebanon?

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00:00I want to ask you a question about the escalation, because you said an escalation could be coming,

00:05and that's what Lebanon could be expecting from Israel. In that case, do you think the

00:11US is doing enough to restrain Israel from attacking Lebanon, nearly a year after the

00:18ceasefire came into place? Now, the problem there is that the Lebanese government and the

00:25Lebanese presidents, since the beginning of the year, were asking the international community,

00:31and particularly Washington, to press Israel to restrain and to have patience, because the

00:36implementation of the 1701 resolution of Council of Security will be implemented, but the Lebanese

00:46government needs time. Why? Because in the Lebanese government, there is a division. Hezbollah

00:54has two ministers there, and his ally, the Amal Movement, has two other ministers, and these

01:00ministers, they refuse to disarm Hezbollah, even though the president and the prime minister

01:05mentioned that or took the decision to disarm Hezbollah and to have the monopoly of the use

01:13of force and the sovereignty of the state. But despite this, Hezbollah is maneuvering. In the

01:18first beginning, they accepted to implement the 1701 resolution. But after that, they started to get

01:27away of it or to get back, to have step back from it, saying that they are a resistance, they don't

01:33accept to withdraw weapons, and so on. So the problem is within the Lebanese government, not in the

01:40Lebanese armed forces. The Lebanese armed forces are doing their duty perfectly. In the south of the

01:47Britannia, they underwent 1,500 successive missions, successful missions, sorry. And the American officer

01:56of the mechanism that is responsible to implement the 1701, he testified that the Lebanese army is

02:03doing well. And even Donald Trump freed $190 million in the US military budget that was planned by the

02:14Biden administration and then freezed by Donald Trump. This $190 million for the Lebanese army has been

02:23freed a few weeks ago.