Can Israel and Lebanon Finally Make Peace? The History, the Obstacles, and the Forces Standing in the Way
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The episode discusses the potential for peace between Israel and Lebanon amidst historical tensions and current diplomatic efforts.
In this episode of The Middle East Breakdown, host Dan Feferman examines one of the most consequential diplomatic openings in the modern Middle East: the first publicly announced, state-level talks between Lebanon and Israel in decades, held in Washington under Secretary of State Marco Rubio. With a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran still holding, and Hezbollah pushing to link the two tracks together, the question of whether Lebanon can finally chart its own course toward peace with Israel has never been more urgent or more complicated.Joining the discussion is Hussain Abdul-Hussain, research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C., and author of the newly published book The Arab Case for Israel. A Lebanese-Iraqi journalist and analyst who was born and raised in Lebanon, studied at the American University of Beirut, worked as a reporter for the Daily Star, and appears regularly on Lebanese national television, Abdul-Hussain brings a rare insider perspective to the history of Lebanese-Israeli relations, the internal dynamics of Hezbollah, and the evolving public sentiment inside Lebanon's Shia community.The episode examines the…
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