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US envoy says Hezbollah ‘needs to see that there’s a future for them,’ warns Lebanon against being ‘left behind’
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US envoy Thomas Barrack, Washington’s ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, warns Lebanon against being “left behind” amid regional changes, adding that Hezbollah “needs to see that there’s a future for them.”
He notes that “the rest of the region is moving at Mach speed, and you will be left behind,” noting in a press conference after meeting President Joseph Aoun that “dialogue has started between Syria and Israel, just as the dialogue needs to be reinvented by Lebanon.”
“Hezbollah is a political party. It also has a militant aspect to it. Hezbollah needs to see that there’s a future for them, that that road is not harnessed just solely against them, and that there’s an intersection of peace and prosperity for them also,” Barrack says.
The Times of Israel Community.