Former Lebanese Minister of the Environment Wiam Wahhab: Destroying Israel Is Unrealistic; I Would Not Send My Son to Fight Israel; Some People May Think That They Would Go to Paradise, But for Me, Nothing Is Worth Losing My Son

In a November 19, 2024 interview with Batoul Abdallah on her YouTube channel, former Lebanese Minister of the Environment Wiam Wahhab stated that the idea of destroying Israel is unrealistic. He described Israel as an "advance post" of America and the West, questioning how its removal could be achieved. Wahhab advocated for a one-state solution for Palestine, where the future of Jews and Palestinians would be decided through democratic processes. He expressed his opposition to the conflict with Israel, including Lebanese fighters confronting Israel to support Hamas, stating he would not allow his son to go to the battlefront to fight Israel alongside Hizbullah, because many Hizbullah fighters, including Nasrallah, had been martyred, and it is not worth risking his life to be targeted by an Israeli airstrike. Wahhab emphasized that nothing is worth losing his son. In February 2024, Wahhab had stated that Israel would not dare to enter an "open war" with Lebanon or conduct a ground invasion, knowing that it would be "destroyed" by Hizbullah and its allies.