S8 Ep1099: David Daoud. Daoud argues the Lebanese Armed Forces are unlikely to confront Hezbollah, potentially facilitating performative security checks. He stresses that Israel's primary objective in Lebanon is ensuring long-term security for its northern citizens.
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🗓️ 7 July 2026
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David Daoud. Daoud argues the Lebanese Armed Forces are unlikely to confront Hezbollah, potentially facilitating performative security checks. He stresses that Israel's primary objective in Lebanon is ensuring long-term security for its northern citizens. (7)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelor. I welcome David Dioad of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy and my co-host and colleague |
| 0:23.0 | Bill Rajov, senior fellow of the FD, looking at Lebanon, the headlines in Reuters in these last hours. |
| 0:30.8 | Lebanon's South takes a breath as families return to shattered homes and lives. |
| 0:38.3 | David, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:40.2 | This sympathetic Reuters headline ignores the damage done to the Israeli northern border |
| 0:46.8 | since the beginning of hostilities in 23. |
| 0:50.1 | And the reason 50,000 or more people can't return to their homes is Hezbollah that is decamped in South Lebanon. |
| 0:57.5 | They live there. |
| 0:58.8 | But right now, because the IDF has been defending itself, the negotiations are underway in all directions. |
| 1:05.6 | Before we go to the negotiations, I'd like to know where the IDF is right now. |
| 1:10.0 | What are the positions that are important to it? |
| 1:12.4 | And is it conceding any one of them as we negotiate? |
| 1:16.0 | Good evening to you, David. |
| 1:17.9 | Good evening, David. |
| 1:18.9 | I think you're going to have to excuse my voice a little bit and cheering for England. |
| 1:25.3 | So it's a dramatic experience. |
| 1:30.2 | Look, to start with the kind of the unfairness or the unevenness of the reporting, |
| 1:38.1 | it's kind of built in, obviously, I think merely because Israel is the more powerful actor, |
| 1:44.1 | people assume it's not as dramatic, |
| 1:47.4 | it's not as sellable, the idea that there are hundreds of thousands, or sorry, 10 of thousands |
| 1:53.2 | of Israelis, almost 100,000 Israelis who were evacuated from their homes for almost three years. |
| 1:58.6 | Some of them returned home after the November 27, |
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