The US placed pressure on Prime Minister Naftali Bennett “not to change the rules of engagement with Hezbollah prior to the resumption of the nuclear talks in Vienna in September,” the London-based Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Sunday, citing a Western senior diplomatic source.
The US doesn’t want Iran to use a conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group as an excuse to withdraw from the nuclear negotiations.
The source said that following pressure from the US and France, both Isarel and Hezbollah conveyed a message to UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon that they’re not interested in an escalation. Pressure was also placed on the Lebanese government as an escalation in southern Lebanon will increase the likelihood of the total collapse of the teetering country, something the US and France are trying hard to prevent.
The source added that Hezbollah wanted to test the resolve of new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Obviously, the Zionists, with their blood-soaked “independence”, will always be the ultimate “galus Jew” they so deride and mistakenly think they cured with Zionism.
The Zionists are the ultimate Galus Jew, needing to be subservient to the will of the nations. If the Zionists would just keep the Torah (and would, therefore, not be Zionists) then they would be free, while being subservient to the will of the nations as Hashem commanded and intended, rather than “independent” and blowing billions of dollars each year on “security”, and the untold messes resulting from that, all because the Zionists, as Rav Chaim Brisker accurately predicted “need a State in order to shmad”. How pathetic.
if I am the only one on this page regarding the flailing US bossing Bennett around, WOW
Shame on them! How dare they! These Democras are but bossom buddies with the arabs. It’s so obvious! They deserve to be pulverized. They shoot 19 misses into Israel and Israel should wit back and smile. Every life in Israel is in harms way and Israel should do nothing. This logic, as reported here, is nothing short of blackmail; nothing short of blasphemy!
Israel has become weaker since Bennett took over.