{"id":34418,"date":"2026-06-04T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=34418"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:35:11","slug":"mr-anthony-samrani-co-editor-in-chief-lorient-le-jour-thanks-for-his-informative-insights-entitled-lebanon-how-to-escape-the-israeli-iranian-trap-liban-comment-sortir-du-piege-israelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/mr-anthony-samrani-co-editor-in-chief-lorient-le-jour-thanks-for-his-informative-insights-entitled-lebanon-how-to-escape-the-israeli-iranian-trap-liban-comment-sortir-du-piege-israelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Anthony Samrani, co-editor-in-chief, L’Orient Le Jour: thanks for his informative insights entitled “Lebanon: How to escape the Israeli-Iranian trap?” [“Liban: comment sortir du pi\u00e8ge isra\u00e9lo-iranien?”]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How will Lebanon navigate its existential turning point, namely of “escaping the Israeli-Iranian trap?” This is the question that Mr. Anthony Samrani helped us understand in his excellent YouTube short video shared below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Mr. Google Translate\u2014the faithful online friend\u2014 for assisting Bambi in translating Samrani’s insights from French to English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bravo to Mr. Anthony Samrani and L’Orient Le Jour for the continuous outstanding journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good luck to Lebanon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em><\/strong>Lebanon is more than ever the scene of an Iranian-Israeli power struggle mediated by the Americans. And in this context, many Lebanese are convinced that the solution will necessarily come from outside.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some are betting on Israel. In other words, the Israeli offensive will make it possible to finish off Hezbollah. But this bet is doubly problematic. On the one hand, this offensive has an exorbitant cost for Lebanon. We are talking about dozens of villages being razed, completely erased from the map and from memory, thousands of deaths and possibly a long-term occupation. On the other hand, even if Israel can significantly weaken the militia, it cannot eradicate it, any more than it has been able to eradicate Hamas in the Gaza Strip.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others are betting on Iran, either hoping for an agreement favorable to Iran that would strengthen Hezbollah in Lebanon or hoping that Iran would eventually negotiate the Hezbollah card in exchange for guarantees in Lebanon or elsewhere.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Iran has never agreed to negotiate its missiles and militias, and even less Hezbollah, which is an integral part of its security apparatus. In the past, every time a regional agreement has included a Lebanese dimension, it has always been to our detriment.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if there was a third way? What if Lebanon could only be saved by the Lebanese themselves? This would imply two things. On the one hand, an agreement with Israel to recover all of our territory, and on the other hand, the neutralization of the militia to recover all of our sovereignty. But this raises two questions: do we have the means, with the risks that this implies in terms of implosion of the army and internal tensions. And on the other hand, and most importantly, do we have the will?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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