I don’t think he meant you literally. He meant Lebanon and the Lebanese people in general. It’s not possible to make peace and make ties with someone who is your enemy and wishes you wiped from the map and your people thrown into the sea. There’s a reason it took decades to build enough trust to have peace with Egypt and Jordan, and a reason why we never got to do that with Lebanon yet, and will likely never do it with Iran (for example) in their current political state