Lawfare Archive: Hezbollah, Lebanon, Israel, Iran
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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From October 2, 2024: Israel has hit Hezbollah very hard over the past few days, killing much of its senior leadership and eroding its capabilities. It has also displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese and now has ground forces in Lebanon. Iran has responded with a missile barrage against Israel, to which an Israeli response is widely expected. To discuss the latest events in the expanding war, Lawfare's Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Firas Maksad of the Middle East Institute, Natan Sachs of the Brookings Institution, and Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson.
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| 0:51.3 | On February 28, the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes targeting Iran |
| 0:57.6 | as part of a campaign to destabilize the regime and its nuclear and missile capabilities. |
| 1:03.7 | At least 1,045 people have reportedly died in Iran since the strikes began, including the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali |
| 1:13.8 | Hamanet. These strikes are the latest chapter in the conflict between the U.S. and Israel with Iran. |
| 1:20.4 | For today's archive, I chose an episode from October 2, 2004, in which Benjamin Wittes sat down with Firas Moksaid, Nathan Sachs, and Scott Anderson |
| 1:31.7 | to unpack the Israeli strikes on the Lebanese Hezbollah that began in September of |
| 1:36.9 | 2024, Iran's response by sending a missile barrage against Israel, and the future of Iranian and Israeli strikes. |
| 1:58.1 | It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson, Natanz Sax of the Brookings Institution, and Phuras Maksad of the Middle East Institute. |
| 2:13.6 | The Israelis saw an opportunity to put to use all the plans and everything they had put in place for 18 years, but also to address the key imperative, which is to bring their population north, back to their homes, back to them with a sense of security. |
| 2:30.0 | And that is now the big question, right? How do they do that? Because simply degrading, |
| 2:34.3 | Hezbollah is not enough. We are talking Lebanon, Hezbollah, Israel, and Iran today. |
| 2:43.1 | Intense Israeli strikes against the Lebanese militia, Iranian missiles against Israel, and |
| 2:50.5 | an expected Israeli response. |
| 2:53.6 | For us, I want to start with what's happened both to and in Lebanon the past week. |
| 3:01.5 | When we last recorded, the Pager operation had happened, and Israel was starting to hit in a major way, |
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