Source: Antiwar.com
by Daniel Larison
“The Biden administration claims to be pushing for a ‘temporary ceasefire’ between Israel and Hezbollah to avert a larger conflict, but this is very late in the day and it is not a serious effort to prevent a new war in Lebanon. It is at best a desperate, last-minute exercise in going through the motions of diplomacy. The administration would like to pretend that it is a passive bystander pleading from the sidelines instead of the chief patron and arms supplier of the main belligerent in the conflict, and it designs its entreaties to be toothless so that Israel can safely ignore them.” (09/27/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/daniel_larison/2024/09/26/thanks-to-biden-lebanon-is-burning/