Despite Hezbollah's fierce opposition, historic Israel-Lebanon negotiations are underway—driven by a Lebanese public that is war-weary, with some polls showing up to 85% demanding an end to the conflict.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, along with senior Israeli officials, visited an IDF outpost in southern Lebanon to discuss ongoing peace talks with Lebanon and continued operations against Hezbollah.

IDF troops have killed more than 1,000 Hezbollah terrorists who had entered the war in defense of Iran, firing rockets daily at Israeli communities while getting a beating in southern Lebanon and Beirut.

The IDF has deployed hundreds of ground troops into southern Lebanon, raiding Hezbollah positions and preventing enemy forces from entrenching, while airstrikes have decimated their missile capabilities.

A central lesson of October 7 for the Jewish state is that seeking to achieve quiet through mutual deterrence with the armed Islamist militias on its borders is a fool’s errand.