It never ceases to amaze me how the Lebanese never seem to have enough of discord and wars. Their common memory of the last 50 years ought to usher them all away from more wars and bloodshed that benefit no one and only waste Lebanese lives and properties and the people’s independence.

The sight of Lebanese rushing with their belongings and driving away from south Lebanon, the scene of Israeli reprisals, has been a regular occurrence for as long as I have lived. The sight of cars full of families — old and young, women and children — fleeing areas where hostilities were expected, like Beirut’s southern suburb or various towns south of the Litani River, is heart-wrenching and painful for anyone to see, let alone experience.

But the leadership of the now extremely weakened Hezbollah has once again done a disservice to Lebanon — a disservice to the people and the long-term prospects of peace and stability for a country that has barely started the job of rebuilding the villages and towns destroyed during the last Hezbollah-Israel war in 2024. That war clipped the wings of an armed group that never shies away from insisting it is trained, armed and led by no other than Iran’s widely proscribed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

I am also amazed at the futility of some people, who are ready to sacrifice their country and its prosperity for a cause that is unlikely to yield any return for them either morally or materially. They simply seek to avenge the killing of a religious leader in Iran. And........

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