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Lebanon: Who Wants War With Israel?

Charbel Nahas Former minister and founder of the Citizens in a State movement says:   There’s no longer a state , so asking the army to replace Hizbullah on the southern border makes no sense. For that, we’d need a census, conscription, weapons.’ He believes what’s required is to put Hizbullah’s military and social achievements under the control of a ‘strong, secular’ regime. But, he warns, the precise aim of the ‘Zionist project’ is to ‘delegitimise states in the region. For Israel, having Arab states and societies fragmented is ideal.’