Under American pressure, Israel is weighing announcing “symbolic” withdrawals of its forces from southern Lebanon as part of negotiations expected to open soon, a source involved in the details told the Jordanian site Roya News on Monday.
1+Earlier today, Middle East expert Yoni Ben Menachem issued a stark warning in an interview with Tal Meir ahead of the start of contacts in Washington: “Security officials told me they’re already starting to talk about an Israeli withdrawal from territories we captured, including the Beaufort.”
According to him, “The Americans are already trying to start dictating our exit from Lebanon before the problem of Hezbollah’s disarmament is solved. Our boys are falling there, and now they want to fold us up without a serious solution that guarantees the safety of northern residents from an invasion by the Radwan Force, anti-tank missile fire, and rockets—these developments are extremely dangerous.”
1+Meanwhile, among the recent proposals from U.S. President Trump in an attempt to “curb” Israel’s strikes against the terror organization Hezbollah in Lebanon is to allow Syria, under the leadership of al-Julani, to be responsible for disarming Hezbollah instead of Israel.