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May 27, 2025

Lebanon Has a Chance to Disarm the Palestinian Militias within Its Borders

Its leaders are using rhetoric that got their predecessors killed.

Yesterday, the Lebanese prime minister, Nawaf Salam, in an interview with Sky News Arabia, declared that “the days of spreading the Iranian revolution are over. We will not remain silent about weapons in Lebanon that are outside the control of the government.” This was a not-so-subtle reference to Hizballah, the Iranian proxy that had exerted de-facto control over the country until the devastating Israeli attacks of last year. In the past, Lebanese politicians have been killed for this sort of rhetoric.

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