Lebanon and the price of peace

There are two parallel tracks through which an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon is being discussed. One in Washington, where Lebanon, Israel and the US have signed a trilateral framework agreement aimed at bringing about an Israeli withdrawal and ending the state of war between Tel Aviv and Beirut. The second track introduces complications in that, in Islamabad, Lebanon was also on the agenda of America’s negotiations with Iran. There, it was Iran that was negotiating an Israeli withdrawal on behalf of Lebanon.