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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth in Jerusalem

US looks unable to talk Netanyahu out of planned invasion of Lebanon

An apartment block in Beirut, Lebanon after being hit by an Israeli airstrike
An apartment block in Beirut, Lebanon, after being hit by an Israeli airstrike on 30 September. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

The Biden administration is losing influence over whether Benjamin Netanyahu launches a ground invasion into southern Lebanon or not.

For more than a year, Joe Biden and his senior advisers have managed to forestall an Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon in fear of a larger war that could envelop the entire Middle East.

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