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Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said: "To those who call on us to finish [Hezbollah], I say: We can't. We cannot do it militarily or diplomatically. We need help."
As U.S. President Joe Biden and his team focus on the Iran nuclear file, the war in Syria remains a festering wound at the heart of the Middle East. Although the current administration has made no dramatic departures from the approach of previous administrations, its decision to deprioritize the conflict comes at a particularly bad time.
A broad alliance led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid says it has the votes to form a government and oust Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister.
Parties ranging from the left to the far right were struggling on Wednesday to form a coalition government by midnight.
Whether they can form a government, unseating Netanyahu, a wily political survivor who has fundamentally reshaped Israeli politics, by the deadline of Wednesday at midnight remains unclear. So does the question of how much change the “change government” could bring when some of the parties agree on little else besides enmity for Netanyahu.