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Report: US sees opportunity to marginalize Hezbollah in Lebanon amid Israeli campaign
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Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 6 , 2024. (ETIENNE TORBEY / AFP)
Washington sees Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah as an opportunity to push the terror group out of the country’s politics, The Wall Street Journal reports.
It says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been lobbying Arab leaders to back the election of a new president. Lebanon has been without a president since 2022 amid a failure by the country’s factions to reach an agreement on a candidate.
At the same time, the paper says Egyptian and Qatari officials have downplayed the prospects of sidelining Hezbollah, saying any such plans are unrealistic, with no one wanting to be seen as gaining from the Israeli offensive.
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