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US envoy Tom Barrack and his colleague Morgan Ortagus are expected in Lebanon soon for a visit that will come on the heels of some significant developments on both the Syrian and Lebanese fronts. Their trip also comes in the wake of the UN’s announcement that the Gaza Strip is now experiencing a famine.
For months now, as we well know, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, along with his ministers and generals, openly defied dozens of internationally documented reports by political and humanitarian organizations that have been monitoring the situation in Gaza and are aware of the genocide being committed before the eyes of the world.
And, as we also know, instead of taking a firm position and refusing to tolerate these crimes, the international community has chosen a different path altogether. If this inaction tells us anything, it is that the old-new reality in international politics regarding the Middle East has consolidated. It is old because near-unconditional international support for Israel is not new, but it has intensified repeatedly, especially since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the former Soviet Union, which left the US leading the “new world order,” as still does today.
