"Lebanon, Syria, Iran are not states", says an Israeli minister

See

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/22/israeli-diaspora-minister-says-lebanon-isnt-a-state-advocates-taking-south/

"Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli is the latest voicing pro-war rhetoric, declaring overnight in comments on X.com that Lebanon does not, in his opinion, fit the definition of a state

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Chikli said that southern Lebanon is essentially under the control of “a hostile Shi’ite population.” He added that he believes neither Syria nor Iran counts as states, and so don’t merit protection for their status as sovereign nations."

Wow.

This seems to me the height of arrogance.

It expresses contempt toward those states:

they are not even states.