U.S. support for Israel's campaign in Lebanon is 'limited' to Hezbollah

President Joe Biden’s administration is signaling that it supports Israel’s operations against Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon.

Having failed to secure a cease-fire, President Joe Biden’s administration is signaling that it supports Israel’s operations against Iran-backed Hezbollah and the group’s eventual withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

The hope is that a weakened Hezbollah — Tehran’s most important proxy force and Lebanon’s most powerful political party — will provide an opening for the Lebanese to elect a new president and push the militants to the sidelines and away from the southern border with Israel for good.

“We do see Israel having the right to conduct these limited incursions to degrade Hezbollah’s capability,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said at a briefing last week. 

“We want to see these incursions be limited, and ultimately we want to get back to implementation of 1701, which means the government of Israel withdrawing back behind the border,” he added, referring to a United Nations resolution meant to end hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel with the creation of a buffer zone.

The refocused U.S. diplomatic effort faces challenges across many fronts, including finding a way to implement the decades-old U.N. resolution that was never fully enforced.

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