00:00As you know, Hezbollah says the ceasefire is meaningless amid continued Israeli attacks and they have the right to retaliate.
00:08As we know, the Iran-backed proxy is not part of the ceasefire agreement.
00:14So do they have the right to defend themselves and should they be brought into the negotiations?
00:20Well, I think politically they can claim the right to, of course.
00:25I think legally and diplomatically, it's much more difficult to say they do because they're a non-state actor.
00:31And as you mentioned in your question, you know, heavily linked to Iran, who, to all intents and purposes, as
00:36long as they have control over, tell it what to do.
00:41So I think the historic meeting between the Lebanese and the Israelis is a good step in the right direction.
00:47But as we all know, the Lebanese security forces are a kind of third tier bit player in this compared
00:53to the Israelis and Hezbollah.
00:54But nonetheless, in terms of international law, recognizing and normalizing relationships between each other, a meeting which did involve the
01:03Israelis and Lebanese would be a step in the right direction, despite the Lebanese limited capacities to do anything about
01:08Hezbollah.
01:09But it does then raise the prospect potentially of investments in return, which Lebanon surely needs in return for further
01:16security help if there's a normalization with the Israelis.
01:20So I think this is probably the angle they're looking at rather than actually solving any kind of Hezbollah problem,
01:25which potentially down the line could be integrated.
01:28But they seem like they're a long way from that at the moment.
01:30So I think this is going to be a good thing.
01:31So I think this isinch Apollos.pie�eth
01:33about it. So I think
01:33this is our own thing. But it's
01:33not exactly how I think this is. So what we've
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