How Qatar Can Help Lebanon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Another round of fighting is not in Israel's or Lebanon's interest.
37% : The government hopes passive "containment" of Hezbollah's arsenal will, in time, destroy what Israel hasn't, even as the group is actively regenerating.
35% : But any future Qatari aid will only perpetuate Lebanon's self-destructive status quo unless preconditioned on meaningful Lebanese efforts to disarm Hezbollah. Hezbollah's yearlong war with Israel, which ended in November 2024, significantly weakened the group militarily.
34% : In one of the most escalatory actions since the ceasefire took effect in Lebanon last November, Israel eliminated Hezbollah's de facto military chief of staff Haitham Ali Tabatabai on November 23.
33% : Israel and Hezbollah may be closer to war than at any point over the last twelve months.
33% : " Ultimately, the recent Israel-Hezbollah war broke Lebanon's political deadlock and domestically humbled Hezbollah enough to deny the ideologically pro-"resistance" Suleiman Frangieh the presidency.
30% : After the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, Doha unconditionally pledged $300 million toward the $2.3 billion reconstruction funds Lebanon required, alleviating from Hezbollah the burden of rebuilding what its war with Israel had destroyed.

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