It will come as no surprise that President Donald Trump aims to extend the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire in the second round of talks that will be brokered by the United States Thursday. Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun is on board — but his goal is broader: End the war.

And Israel just wants to obliterate Hezbollah.

The Thursday meeting, set to take place at the State Department, will include officials from all three countries. Israel will send its ambassador, Yechiel Leiter, and Lebanon will send its former ambassador, Simon Karam.

Last week’s talks, which lasted about two hours and were mediated by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, marked a historic first: the first time Israel and Lebanon have held direct talks in more than three decades. It was a remarkable turn for the two countries, which have officially been at war with each other since 1948.

Aoun has indicated that he’s heartily sick of Hezbollah and of Iran using Lebanon for its own nefarious ends.

“We negotiate for ourselves,” he told the Lebanese people in a national address Friday. “We are no longer a pawn in anyone’s game, nor an arena for anyone’s wars — and we never will be again.”

Speaking again Monday, Aoun described the stark choice that Lebanon faces.

“Lebanon is facing two options: either the continuation of the war, with all its humanitarian, social, economic and sovereign repercussions, or negotiations to put an end to this war and achieve lasting stability,” he said. “I have chosen negotiations, and I am full of hope that we will be able to save Lebanon.”

Aoun stressed that these talks are not tied to the U.S.-Iran negotiations. He said that his goals are to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah, end IDF presence in Lebanon and instead deploy the Lebanese army along the border. The Lebanese president said that Trump backs these goals.

But forceful rhetoric must be backed by forceful action, and it remains to be seen if Aoun and the Lebanese army can exert not only the will but also the power to disarm Hezbollah.

Hezbollah, of course, is having none of it.

A senior Hezbollah official, Hassan Fadlallah, said in an interview with AFP that Hezbollah will defeat Israel.

“We will bring down this yellow line through the resistance,” he said. “Yellow line” means the parts of Lebanon under Israeli control, and “resistance” means military action.

“The attempt by the Israeli army to establish a buffer zone, under the title of a defensive line, a yellow line, a green line, and a red line,” he added, “all these lines will be broken, and we will not accept any of them.”

“No one in Lebanon or abroad will be able to disarm the resistance,” he vowed.

The interests of the three parties entering the talks do not align — and what will result from these misaligned interests is anybody’s guess. But an extension of the ceasefire appears to be all but certain.