One on One with the Lebanese Minister of Culture Ghassan Salame

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:01]Is your country in danger today? You are not talking about a small armed group, a small militia. It is a large armed group, very well equipped, very well trained, very well financed. There was the idea that the Israeli army came into Lebanon in 2024 [music] and did a lot of harm to the Hezbollah.

[00:00:24]And a lot of people thought that the Lebanese army is only there to pursue what the Israeli army has done in 2024.

[00:00:32]This is an illusion. There is a return [music] of the concept of a security zone on all the borders, Lebanon included, but this time >> [music] >> without the civilian population, by destroying all the civilian infrastructure. Therefore, this is [music] not acceptable neither to Hezbollah nor to the Lebanese government. There is nobody in the Lebanese government who will accept a permanent presence of Israeli soldiers in South Lebanon.