00:00And Lebanon's Prime Minister has expressed concern about long-term occupation.
00:06Are these concerns warranted?
00:08Is Israel planning to occupy southern Lebanon even if this conflict does end?
00:14Even if this conflict does end, I don't know.
00:19Yes, it may have that in mind unless it finds a partner
00:23through which it can bring itself to feeling confident that withdrawing from southern Lebanon
00:30is not going to reopen fire against the Israelis.
00:35I think, yes, definitely what they're doing right now is cleansing of the South.
00:41I mean, I don't mean I'm using it in a very, you know, sort of almost ethnic cleansing
00:46because what they've done is to destroy it.
00:50They didn't just push out the Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guards from the South.
00:57They're pushing people out.
00:59They're demolishing homes.
01:00So I don't say they have, you know, they're here to just be nice.
01:04To the contrary, they have established this security zone.
01:07It will be occupation as long as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are fighting along with Hezbollah.
01:15They are fighting with Israel.
01:20They are having a war with Israel in Lebanon at the expense of the Lebanese,
01:24despite the objection of the government and despite the very heavy toll that the Lebanese are paying,
01:33including the Shiites in the South above all.
01:36But you know what?
01:38I mean, we have an Israeli occupation, we have an Iranian occupation of another sort.
01:43So we have two occupations of two different sorts.
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