The ‘Ceasefire’ In Lebanon Is A Ticking Bomb

By Jeremy Scahill & Sharif Abdel Kouddous Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons When President Joe Biden stepped into the Rose Garden Tuesday afternoon, Israel was in the midst of a massive bombing campaign across parts of Lebanon. Its forces were pummeling Gaza with U.S. weapons and the death toll, which officially topped 44,000 Palestinians this week, was rising for the 416th straight day since Israel launched its genocidal war last October. “Today, I have some good news to report from the Middle East,” Biden said. The governments of Israel and Lebanon, he announced, “have accepted the United States’ proposal to end the devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.” The agreement, which was spearheaded by the U.S. and France, took effect at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning. But it does so against the backdrop of the fires raging in Gaza and the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House. For the past year, Biden and his administration have empowered an Israeli war machine that is now more emboldened than at any point since the creation of Israel and the launch of the Nakba in 1948. While Biden and his advisors are promoting the deal as a monumental agreement “designed to be...