Robert Malley: “What happens in Lebanon will quickly spread to Syria, and vice versa.”

Sanctions are not going to diminish Hezbollah's power.

It is clear. 1701 are words on paper; they are not going to be translated on the ground, and they are not going to be translated anytime soon.

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism and it uses its revenues to those ends.

Lebanon is too weak, too vulnerable, too susceptible to destabilization to afford grand aspirations.