foreign minister abdallah bou habib in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr foreign minister, ijust wonder whether right now it feels to you like this conflict is spiralling out of control. you are watching it from beirut as the war rages in gaza between israel and hamas. but do you fear it is going to spread much wider? well, we are afraid that it may spread. but i can say that i am now less pessimistic than i was at the beginning. i think here there is a conviction, at least in lebanon, that we don t want war. we have a lot of problems economic, political and social problems, and everyone in lebanon does not want war. but it all depends on israel. israel also threatened us many times, to have a pre emptive strike on lebanon, and what s happening in gaza. i mean, you cannot.you know, the people here are interrelated. we have half a million palestinians in lebanon. and, you know, there are a lot of people that are resistance minded. they re not only in lebanon. in syria
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foreign minister abdallah bou habib in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr foreign minister, ijust wonder whether right now it feels to you like this conflict is spiralling out of control. you are watching it from beirut as the war rages in gaza between israel and hamas. but do you fear it is going to spread much wider? well, we are afraid that it may spread. but i can say that i am now less pessimistic than i was at the beginning. i think here there is a conviction, at least in lebanon, that we don t want war. we have a lot of problems economic, political and social problems, and everyone in lebanon does not want war. but it all depends on israel. israel also threatened us many times, to have a pre emptive strike on lebanon, and what s happening in gaza. i mean, you cannot.you know, the people here are interrelated. we have half a million palestinians in lebanon. and, you know, there are a lot of people that are resistance minded. they re not only in lebanon. in syria