Khaled Abou Zahr

I strongly agree with Marco Rubio’s opening statement during this week’s historic negotiations between Lebanon and Israel: Hezbollah’s role in Lebanon and beyond must be brought to an end. The Lebanese people are victims of Hezbollah and Iranian aggression.

If your country was in ruins and I asked you to take a stranger fleeing war into your home, knowing it might make your building a target for missiles, would you agree?

In what has been described as a historic move for Lebanon, the government, led by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, this week banned all military and security activities by Hezbollah. The move came a day after a rocket attack on Haifa triggered a massive Israeli retaliation against Lebanon.