What Would You Have Said?

Here's an intellectual conundrum for the Lebanese: how should we deal with a “window of opportunity?”

I just had an interview with Dave Ross in his Seattle show. After asking me a few questions about the situation in Lebanon, he caught me off guard by asking my opinion about a proposal that was made by Haaretz (if you find the article please point it out to me).

The Israeli Newspaper had listened to people who argued: “We are all against Hezbollah, but we will never confront them while we’re under Israeli attack” and took them up on it.

It suggested that Israel offers a 3-day unilateral ceasfire, for the Lebanese to get a chance to rise peacefully against Hezbollah.

So I told Dave: But things are more complicated than that.

And then he said (I’m paraphrasing): Are you accepting then, that the only way to disarm Hezbollah is by doing what Israel is doing right now?

I said, unconvincingly: there must be other ways...

Can you think of one?