The Biden administration has indicated that it sees Israel’s escalated campaign on the Lebanese front as a golden opportunity to diminish Hezbollah’s role in Lebanon.
But despite the unprecedented heavy blows Israel has inflicted on the party, including the assassination of its late leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on September 27, this task may prove more difficult than policy makers in Washington would like to admit.
This owes in no small part to the lack of local Lebanese partners willing to sign on thus far to the Biden administration’s apparent new Lebanon policy. ….more