Lebanon's Aoun will not hold call with Netanyahu in near future, Lebanese officials say

Lebanon's president rebuffs U.S.-brokered call with Israeli PM, underscoring deep-seated tensions and a firm stance against normalization. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Lebanon's Aoun will not hold call with Netanyahu in near future, Lebanese officials say

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Lebanese President Michel Aoun will not hold a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the near future, three senior Lebanese officials stated on Thursday, directly contradicting an announcement from U.S. President Donald Trump. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, confirmed the decision just hours after Trump indicated the leaders of the two technically warring nations were set to speak. The refusal was formally communicated to the U.S. administration by the Lebanese embassy in Washington prior to a scheduled call between President Aoun and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the same day. The swift and public dismissal of the proposed diplomatic engagement highlights the profound and enduring obstacles to any form of normalization between Lebanon and Israel. The two countries have no formal diplomatic relations, remain in a state of war, and are separated by a United Nations-patrolled border that has been the site of repeated conflicts, most notably the 2006 war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. For any Lebanese leader, engaging in direct, public communication with an Israeli counterpart carries immense political risk, as it is widely viewed within Lebanon as a violation of a long-standing national consensus against such contact prior to a comprehensive peace agreement. The context of the U.S. push is the recent series of U.S.-brokered normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab states, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The Trump administration has been actively seeking to expand this diplomatic circle, aiming to isolate Iran and its regional proxies, a strategy that directly implicates Lebanon given Hezbollah's powerful role in its government and military. President Trump's announcement appeared to be an attempt to orchestrate a similar breakthrough, but it overlooked the fundamentally different political and security dynamics within Lebanon, where the state does not have full sovereignty over all its territory or military decisions due to Hezbollah's influence. Analysts in Beirut suggest President Aoun had little room to...

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