The Lebanese Army is very likely convinced that it hasn’t got the combat power to push Hizballah around, and perhaps more important that not even Lloyd’s of London could lay off enough insurance to cover the lives of Lebanese Army leaders if they tried. There’s a sort of pretense that Hizballah isn’t effectively a provincial government in Lebanon, and that the ‘real government’ ought to be able to make its writ run in the South against Hizballah’s will. I suppose it’s convenient.

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