Diplomats say US won't back a new Israeli war on Lebanon

Although it is allowing Israel to carry on with its low-intensity attacks in Lebanon, the U.S. does not seem inclined to “encourage or cover a new all-out war on Lebanese soil,” influential diplomats told An-Nahar newspaper.

“Washington is delicately engineering the post-Iran war period and this has been manifested in Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington,” the diplomats added, in remarks published Friday.

The report comes as the U.S. looks into Lebanon’s response to the U.S. paper submitted by its envoy Tom Barrack, who said that he was “unbelievably satisfied with the response.”

Barrack is expected to return to Lebanon in around two weeks after an expected visit to Israel.