{"id":45259,"date":"2024-09-27T22:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T22:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/huge-beirut-strike-leaves-west-powerless-as-israel-chases-victory\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T22:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T22:44:24","slug":"huge-beirut-strike-leaves-west-powerless-as-israel-chases-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=45259","title":{"rendered":"Huge Beirut strike leaves West powerless as Israel chases victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His policy for the last year, as a lifelong supporter of Israel, was to try to influence Netanyahu by showing solidarity and support, delivering weapons and diplomatic protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Biden believed that he could persuade Netanyahu not just to change the way Israel fights \u2013 the president has said repeatedly that it is imposing too much suffering and killing too many Palestinian civilians \u2013 but to accept an American plan for the day after that rested on creating an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Netanyahu rejected the idea out of hand and has ignored Joe Biden\u2019s advice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the attack on Beirut, Blinken repeated his view that a combination of deterrence and diplomacy had staved off a wider war in the Middle East. But as events spiral out of US control, he is not sounding convincing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Big decisions lie ahead. First of all, with or without Nasrallah, Hezbollah is going to have to decide how to use its remaining arsenal. Do they use try to mount a much heavier attack on Israel? If they don\u2019t use their remaining rockets and missiles in storage, they might decide Israel will get around to destroying even more of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Israelis also face highly consequential decisions. They have already talked about a ground operation against Lebanon, and while they haven\u2019t yet mobilised all the reserves they might need, an invasion is on their agenda. Some in Lebanon believe that in a ground war Hezbollah could negate some of Israel\u2019s military strengths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Western diplomats, among them Israel\u2019s staunchest allies, were hoping to calm matters, urging Israel to accept a diplomatic solution. They will now be looking at events with dismay and also a sense of powerlessness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckgn5xkp3rko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His policy for the last year, as a lifelong supporter of Israel, was to try to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1918,3052,2420,389,1845,3051,189,208,1038],"class_list":["post-45259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-beirut","tag-chases","tag-huge","tag-israel","tag-leaves","tag-powerless","tag-strike","tag-victory","tag-west"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Huge Beirut strike leaves West powerless as Israel chases victory - 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