Security necessity or sinking mire?

Meir Ben Shabbat: Control of a security zone is by no means a recipe for a static presence, nor is it a stand-alone component. Alongside it there must be sustained offensive interdiction activity that does not allow the enemy to entrench itself and forces it to direct its efforts toward survival rather than attacking us.

The most important thing in my view is not to pay any price for the diplomatic negotiations or as part of them, for example by thinning out our security activity, because the Lebanese government is incapable of providing the thing we most need from it: the removal of the security threat posed by Hezbollah.

Published in  Israel Hayom, April 15, 2026.  

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