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Lebanon Peace Deal Fuels War (S01E98)
The US managed to get Lebanon and Israel to sign on to a peace deal that key constituencies reject. The country’s parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri along with Hezbollah have rejected terms that seem to force the Lebanese Army and state to disarm Hezbollah without any guarantee that Israel will vacate Lebanese territory in now occupies.
In the latest edition of the badlands podcast, Sciences Po scholar Karim Bitar offers a nuanced take on the deal, as well as Lebanons’s current crisis.
“There is a risk of fragmentation,” he tells me. “This is why I think it would have been preferable to wait…
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