Israel's Lebanon endgame: 'Dismantle Hezbollah entirely as a political and social movement'

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. He sees Israel’s military actions in southern Lebanon within a broader political and strategic framework that extends beyond immediate battlefield objectives. Sayigh argues that while military operations are visible and urgent, they are deeply intertwined with domestic political imperatives in Israel, regional power calculations, and the structural fragility of the Lebanese state.