... what is your sense of, of Lebanon right now?

Yeah, Lebanon is a tragic situation, Bob, and if we can, uh, shift the analysis a little bit to whereas you may see, uh, Israel's r- a- aggression in Iran as being imperialist in character, in Lebanon it's actually much different.

It has a colonialist character to it because Ir- the State of Israel, uh, was founded on lands that border modern-day Lebanon.

Much of Lebanon's southern, uh, lands were colonized by the current State of Israel in 1948.

It has, uh, faced severe occupation and lived through the consequences of decades of, uh, colonial aggression since 1978, the direct, uh, the direct occupation that only was, uh, liberated, uh, at the hands of Hezbollah in 2000 after a long war of attrition.

But Lebanon is a key site to this battle because, um, it's very clear with the genocide, uh, once the genocide in Gaza broke out, that Israel took on a, a more militant, expansionist, imperialist character to create a greater Zionist project.

I mean, um, ever since the ceasefire took place...

Mm-hmm