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Obama Plays a Dead Man’s Hand in Lebanon, and Wins
Tony Badran
November 27, 2024

Barely three weeks ago, Barack Obama’s legacy was in tatters. His party was roundly defeated in the election, after he personally engineered the defenestration of his doddering former vice president from the Oval Office… And yet, two months before the end of his lengthy shadow presidency, and faced with the final undoing of his signature legacy project in the Middle East, Obama went all in—and won big. By forcing Israel to accept a deal with Hezbollah that will formalize America’s role as the terror group’s protector, Obama will have locked in a key piece of his decade-old policy of leveraging American power to secure both Iran’s continuing regional influence and its direct control over Israel’s borders. READ MORE

JNS TV Caroline Glick: Bibi Between Biden and a Hard Place Most Israelis were outraged to hear of what seemed to be capitulation in the form of a ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah. What happened behind the scenes, however, draws a much more complicated picture that forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to choose between bad and worse options.