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October 4, 2024
Why the U.S. probably can’t stop Israel from widening the war in Lebanon

“American leverage, and Biden’s leverage in particular, is very small at this point,” said Rosemary Kelanic, a political scientist specializing in the Middle East, now at Defense Priorities, an antiwar Washington advocacy group.
“Politically, it’s really difficult to do anything that seems like it’s changing American foreign policy right before an election,” she said.
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