Thursday, April 16, 2026

A Framework For Lebanon And Israel To Work Together Against Hezbollah

 Probably not this alliance:

"There is a movie where Israel and Hezbollah ally to fight zombies"

From Foreign Policy's Passport blog:

Dan Drezner, call your office. A new Israeli horror film, Cannon Fodder, depicts the tribulations of an IDF commando team that enters south Lebanon -- only to discover their problem isn't Hezbollah, but marauding zombie hordes.  
To make a not particularly long but certainly confusing story short, the Israeli commandos and the Lebanese paramilitary organization join forces in order to combat the zombie menace. Along the way, there are people beheading zombies with swords, a man on fire, and no shortage of puns about the real-life Mideast conflict. As the preview intones: "In a region infected by war ... where bad blood consumes all hopes for peace ... the fight for borders has lost its meaning."...MORE

First posted May 31, 2013. Hezbollah's zombie-fighting capability has been seriously degraded since their beepers exploded 17 and 18 September 2024.

But rather Lebanon's growing realization that things would be a lot more peaceful if the Iran-backed terror group was defanged.

With the Secretary of State earlier this week acting as mediator at the first face-to-face meeting between Israel and Lebanon in decades, on what will come to be known as Rubio Tuesday (not original to me), it appears there is progress being made to enforce this, from al-Jazeera March 2, 2026:

Lebanese PM bans Hezbollah’s military activities after attack on Israel 

And what set this ramble in motion?

A Breaking News alert at al-Jazeera April 16 that the President of the U.S. said the Leaders (not just the negotiators) will have a little get-together:

 Trump says Israel and Lebanon’s leaders will speak on Thursday