The Lebanese flag flies on a wall that separates the border between Lebanon and Israel, in July 2023. (Credit: Joseph Eid/AFP)
The tone was set just hours before the preparatory meeting in Washington — scheduled for Tuesday at 6 p.m. Beirut time — to launch direct negotiations between Beirut and Tel Aviv.Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem called on the Lebanese state to cancel the talks, arguing that the international trajectories being imposed on Lebanon, particularly by the United States and Israel, would lead to an internal crisis. Some context What we know about the Israel-Lebanon talks This equation, entangled at both the regional and international levels, risks turning Lebanon into a negotiating arena under fire. All the more so as Tehran insists on linking the Lebanese issue to its own, while Washington and Tel Aviv are working to separate the two.But Qassem’s position is clear: to reject any agreement resulting from Lebanese-Israeli...
The tone was set just hours before the preparatory meeting in Washington — scheduled for Tuesday at 6 p.m. Beirut time — to launch direct negotiations between Beirut and Tel Aviv.Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem called on the Lebanese state to cancel the talks, arguing that the international trajectories being imposed on Lebanon, particularly by the United States and Israel, would lead to an internal crisis. Some context What we know about the Israel-Lebanon talks This equation, entangled at both the regional and international levels, risks turning Lebanon into a negotiating arena under fire. All the more so as Tehran insists on linking the Lebanese issue to its own, while Washington and Tel Aviv are working to separate the two.But Qassem’s position is clear: to reject any agreement resulting from Lebanese-Israeli...
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