Lebanese President Denounces Hezbollah, Demands It Submit to Lebanese State
The President of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, is furious, as are other members of his cabinet, including the influential minister of justice, Adel Nassar, because of Hezbollah’s decision to attack Israel, that has invited reprisal by the IDF, and that, in turn, has caused great damage to infrastructure in the Hezbollah strongholds in southern Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, and led 600,000 Lebanese to be displaced, leaving their homes to seek shelter in parts of Lebanon where the IDF will not be attacking.
Aoun’s comments on Hezbollah can be found here: “Lebanese president Joseph Aoun calls for new ceasefire with Israel, vows to disarm Hezbollah,” by Goldie Katz, Jerusalem Post, March 10, 2026:
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called for the implementation of a new ceasefire agreement with Israel, demanding a complete halt to all Israeli action against Hezbollah during a virtual meeting with the President of the European Council Antonio Costa and the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on Monday.
Aoun’s proposed initiative included a request to establish a “complete ceasefire” with Israel and a plea for logistical support for the Lebanese Armed Forces.
He stated that after receiving support, the Lebanese military will disarm Hezbollah and “confiscate all weapons” from the terrorist organization.
What kind of support does Aoun mean? He means both money from the European countries and weapons from America, that just a few months ago provided $230 million worth of weaponry in order to strengthen the Lebanese National Army and to embolden the Lebanese state to go after Hezbollah and to disarm its operatives, by force if necessary.
While attempting to disarm Hezbollah, Lebanon and Israel will engage in “direct negotiations under international sponsorship, to reach the implementation” of ceasefire terms, Aoun suggested.
Aoun noted that, on March 2, the Lebanese government announced a ban on all Hezbollah military actions after the terrorist group launched strikes against Israel in an attempted retaliation for the death of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Hezbollah attempting to ‘buy fall of Lebanese state’
He decried Hezbollah’s attack as an attempt to lure the IDF into conflict with Lebanon, perpetrated by those who want to “buy the fall of the Lebanese state… at the price of destroying dozens of our villages and the fall of tens of thousands of our people for the sake of the Iranian regime’s calculations.”
Though Aoun did call for Israel to halt all its operations in Lebanon in order that the Arab states could then put pressure on Hezbollah, he did not engage in any name-calling against the Jewish state. He regretted only that Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah have spooked enough Lebanese living in the terror group’s grip to want to quickly leave the area because of fear of Israeli bombs.
Meanwhile, Iran has succeeded in doing what Israel failed to do. Its war against Israel and the Gulf Arab states has only brought them closer together against a common enemy.
At least 70% of Lebanese — the Christians and the Sunnis — have been opposed to Hezbollah, but it is only now that they, and their leaders, have been expressing openly their fury that Hezbollah, which is rightly regarded as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the madmen in Tehran, has dragged Lebanon yet again into a war it does not want. Hezbollah is seen clearly as an enemy of the Lebanese state, whose authority it does not recognize. But three developments have now emboldened the Lebanese opponents of Hezbollah to speak out.
First, the Lebanese National Army has been receiving large infusions of weapons from the Americans. Second, the shipments of weapons that Iran used to send to Hezbollah no longer arrive; the route through Syria has been shut down by the Sunni government in Damascus, that rightly regards both Iran and Hezbollah as its mortal enemies. Third, Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah has greatly reduced its power. The IDF has destroyed at least 80% of the 150,000 missiles and rockets that Hezbollah once had in its arsenal. Since 2024, the IDF has managed to kill about 5,000 Hezbollah combatants, and to wound severely, using those “exploding pagers,” about 4,000 combatants, so that they have been rendered unfit for combat.
Lebanese Justice Minister Adel Nassar has summed up the position of the current government:
Hezbollah “deliberately attacked” Israel, on Iran’s orders, so as to relieve some of the military pressure on Iran. He insists that Hezbollah cannot continue to have and maintain a military structure within the state. It is pulling down upon the heads of all the Lebanese the violent response from Israel to Hezbollah’s attacks. Nassar is said to be considering taking legal action against Naim Qassem, the current head of Hezbollah, for dragging Lebanon into another most unnecessary and unwelcome war. Hezbollah, on Iran’s orders, started this latest war, by attacking and killing Israeli soldiers and civilians. Hezbollah, not Israel, is being blamed by Beirut for the current misery in Lebanon, with 600,000 of its citizens displaced. With the IDF pounding Hezbollah from the air, and the Lebanese military ramping up its ground attacks on the terror group, we may be witnessing the last days of Hezbollah as a military force. And in Lebanon, when that happens, a great many people will say to themselves the Arabic equivalent of “free at last, thank God almighty, we’re free at last.” Come to think of it, that’s what they will soon be saying in Iran.
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