Peloni: A highly recommended interview with Tony Badran, a foremost expert on all matters relating to the Levant. He explains that there are in fact only two facets surrounding the deal which matter. The first is American coercion from the Obiden faction in Washington led to Bibi accepting this deal and the second is that a diplomatic infrastructure has been erected in which America has to authorize Israel’s actions in Lebanon. As Badran references here, this sort of limiting control over Israel’s sovereignty was something which the Obiden faction has been earnestly pursuing for some time now and which Badran first discussed in his must read article, The Ottoman American Empire. While a friendly incoming American administration will shortly be in control of this mechanism, it has the potential of building tension between Trump and Bibi to the limit of their differing perspectives on what Israel should and must do going forward.
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