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Earlier this month, I met with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, where he described Iran as “the head of the octopus whose tentacles are reaching into Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and from the Middle East, throughout the world.”
Well, one of those tentacles just got a great deal stronger. In January, new elections swept in Hassan Diab as Prime Minister. Mr. Diab is closely aligned with the Iranian proxy, Hezbollah.
Shiite-linked parties also now control more than half of the Lebanese parliament.
After the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah War in Lebanon, UN resolution 1701 said that all foreign powers have to leave Lebanon. Israeli troops immediately withdrew. Although Hezbollah Commander, Hassan Nasrallah, promised to honor the resolution, the terrorist group quickly swooped in to fill the void.
As Ambassador Dermer told me, “You go into any house on the Lebanese border with Israel, and they will show you their kitchen, their bedroom, their rocket room.”
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