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Zvi Yechezkeli: Nasrallah's assassination is the dawn of a new day in the Middle East 

Popular Israeli journalist and Arabist Zvi Yechezkeli is in a unique position to explain why Nasrallah's elimination is so pivotal for Israel and the entire Middle East. 

Zvi Yehezkeli, Channel 13 News reporter speaks with Israeli reserve soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade who returned home after four and a half months, in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, February 19, 2024.  background
Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90

Tzvi Yechezkeli is the head of the Arab desk at Channel 13, a leading Arabist and documentarian known for his research on ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood. He explained why Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah is so pivotal.

Here's what he said:

“It’s a historically monumental Islamic event. [But now] It really depends on how Israel will proceed. We’ve discovered that Nasrallah is weaker than we thought…the question is how this escalates from Israel’s perspective. Will we approach this tactically regarding Lebanon?

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Do you know what the Lebanese will do when you give them the option to disarm Hezbollah? A peace agreement with Lebanon could even happen.

Nasrallah participated in Assad’s greatest massacre; he starved Syrians.

I think Iran is weak right now in a sense that we’ve cut off a very important branch. Hezbollah has truly taken a hit. There’s no command, no chain of command, there’s no military brain – Nasrallah was the communications mastermind that mapped out the way and the military personnel translated that into action. That’s gone now.

It reminds me of the end of the Lebanon War. We didn’t do all the work in Dahieh – Hezbollah still has an arsenal of missiles. We need to tackle today what we neglected after the Lebanon War. We have to keep going until the point where the Lebanese people say they’ll deal with the rest and we’ll reach a peace agreement. If you neutralize the Iranian threat to the Middle East, it’s the dawn of a new day in the region. For real."

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