won't let it that that's evidence that it's an american israeli plot it seems like it's a hizbollah plot to destabilize lebanon and to undermine the obligations that lebanon has been placed under by the international community there was a resolution the resolution passed there was a prosecutor there was an investigation the investigation concluded it's hardly fair to blame anyone other than the people stopping the investigation and let's not forget what we heard in the introduction which is that the last government was brought down over the government's refusal to disavow the hariri tribe you know the government was brought to hizbullah brought down the government because the government failed was meeting its international obligations it's a. lot of people would say this is part of the plan to destabilize lebanon and i think all of us would agree that this is what's going to happen why and who is behind it is totally different go ahead i'll go ahead i thought i think i think as an observer as a journalist and i've been covering this country even though i mean i've been nice but i li

lebanon for eighteen years the israelis have been fighting the palestine liberation organization and hizbollah on lebanese soil helped by the south lebanon army a militia of christians and jews control the south of the country the south lebanese army didn't fight for israel as a world that is there didn't fight. there was a meeting of interest between them and us that growing domestic pressure in israel of the high losses suffered by the army finally convinced the government to withdraw and it did so quickly. area epstein was a soldier at the time and says the lebanese soldiers who helped israel were left behind almost like sitting ducks and. if we're soldiers knew little about us leaving they for sure knew even less there was some sort of selection the commanders were brought here but i'm sure if you were a driver not much was done for you. some seven thousand stopped lebanon army soldiers crossed into israel those who were left behind would tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was national was one of those who got heart alive even working with israeli intelligence hoping to recr