December 2, 2024 | Haaretz
Hochstein’s Lebanon Deal Guarantees Another Israel-Hezbollah War for Future Generations
Cosmetic, face-saving, nebulous implementation: No wonder that the residents and mayors of northern Israel are objecting to Hochstein's cease-fire deal in Lebanon – and that Hezbollah is celebrating it
December 2, 2024 | Haaretz
Hochstein’s Lebanon Deal Guarantees Another Israel-Hezbollah War for Future Generations
Cosmetic, face-saving, nebulous implementation: No wonder that the residents and mayors of northern Israel are objecting to Hochstein's cease-fire deal in Lebanon – and that Hezbollah is celebrating it
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Master deal-maker Amos Hochstein has done it again, producing a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Lebanon ending the year-long war that Hezbollah sparked on October 8 last year.
But Hochstein, a senior Biden administration envoy, is more ambitious, promising a deal to “end this conflict once and for all.” Unfortunately, this cease-fire will do nothing of the sort.
Beyond its seemingly stricter enforcement mechanisms, the deal is set to repeat the mistakes that made UN Security Council Resolution 1701 in 2006 a failure.
David Daoud is senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he focuses on Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon affairs. Ahmad Sharawi is a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies focused on Iranian intervention in Arab affairs and the Levant.