Senior White House official Amos Hochstein tried to push Lebanese officials to sway Hezbollah against responding to an attack
Senior White House Adviser Amos Hochstein led a “diplomatic disinformation campaign” and deceived Lebanese officials into thinking Israel would not attack Lebanon’s capital or its southern suburbs, Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on 1 August.
Hochstein “informed officials in Beirut that the Israeli strike would be outside Beirut and the suburbs. He insisted on leaking this information under what he referred to as ‘the success of American diplomacy,’” according to the newspaper, calling the US official’s talks with the Lebanese state a “deception operation.”
The report adds Hochstein was trying to obtain a guarantee from Lebanese officials that Hezbollah would not respond to any potential Israeli attack in response to the strike on Majdal Shams last weekend, which Tel Aviv pinned on Hezbollah as a pretext for escalation.
Hochstein was the first to lead Washington’s contact with Beirut following the killings in the occupied Golan Heights town on Saturday, on the premise that “Hezbollah’s responsibility for the incident is not open to debate,” the newspaper says. This comes despite the eyewitness reports that an Israeli Iron Dome interceptor caused the deaths and the inconsistencies in Tel Aviv’s narrative which continue to emerge.
“Hochstein communicated with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Mikati, practicing a policy of deception by indicating that his country was making a great effort to prevent escalation and convince Israel [not to attack Beirut and kill civilians],” which was exactly what ended up happening.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ TheCradle
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