Déjà Vu at Beirut?

The ceasefire in Lebanon is a throwback to 2006, when the national Lebanese army was supposed to defang Hezbollah and chart a new course for the land of cedars.

Lebanese Presidency press office via AP
Lebanon's president, Joseph Aoun, center, meets with the prime minister-designate, Nawaf Salam, right, and the parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, left, on January 14, 2025. Lebanese Presidency press office via AP

All eyes are on a fragile cease-fire in Gaza, but how about that other front? Will a cessation of fighting on Israel’s border with Lebanon hold? Can it? The deal, reached on November 27, following Israel’s attack on Hezbollah’s top echelon and the obliteration of much of its terror arsenal, is a throwback to 2006. The premise then, and now, is that the national Lebanese army would defang Hezbollah and chart a new course for the land of cedars. 

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