Reflecting on the July 2006 War and UNSCR 1701 eighteen years later, during a time of escalation and regional war's expansion.

Looking back on humanitarian assistance in times of emergency and crisis, the Lebanese government's negotiating role in helping shape UNSCR 1701, a return to border conflict and battlefield over armistice and deterrence and the lack of state agency bringing us closer to Hezbollah's interests.

With Sarah Borgi - economist and independent consultant.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:11 First day

6:22 Anthony Bourdain

10:14 Samidoun

15:04 Guilt

19:39 Lebanon’s role

22:27 Opposition government

25:30 Free from Syrian hegemony

29:05 Leftist wing of March 14

34:47 Israeli attack on Hezbollah

38:03 Main points of UNSCR 1701

48:22 Warzone

51:02 Closer to the problem

54:47 Stature

57:12 Restraint

1:00:25 Legitimizing the battlefield

1:04:04 Drawn out

1:07:07 Deterrence

1:09:19 Armistice