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Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for Lebanon.

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time.

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Lebanon does not have a powerful army.

But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

There is no entity in the world that will dare attack Israel with chemical weapons.