⁉️🇮🇷📞🇵🇸 — Israeli arabs report getting SMS messages from an unknown number, consisting of statements from khameine's speech today.

🇺🇸📞🇱🇧 — 📰 Axios: Scoop: U.S. wants to use Hezbollah's weakness to elect new Lebanese president

➡️ U.S. officials say the White House wants to take advantage of Israel's massive blow to Hezbollah's leadership and infrastructure to push for an election of a new Lebanese president in the coming days.

➡️ Why it matters: Lebanon hasn't had a president for almost two years, which has increased instability and exacerbated the political and economic crisis in the country.

➡️ Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, top militia commanders and other Hezbollah members were killed by Israeli airstrikes in recent weeks, weakening the influential militia.

➡️ Nasrallah blocked any effort to elect a person who was not its ally Suleiman Frangieh.

➡️ One candidate is the commander of the Lebanese armed forces Gen. Joseph Aoun, who is supported by the U.S. and France. The Lebanese armed forces will be a key player in any post-war settlement in Lebanon.

➡️ With Nasrallah dead and Hezbollah at its weakest in years, the Biden administration thinks there is now an opportunity to dramatically reduce its influence on the Lebanese political system and elect a new president who is not an ally of the Shia militia, two U.S. officials said.

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Lindsay Graham: "yeah the flooding is bad in the Carolinas but have you thought about Israel lately?"

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🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — 🇺🇸Biden:

I will consider alternatives other than striking Iranian oil fields

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — A senior US State Department official says that Israel has not provided assurances to the Joe Biden administration that targeting Iranian nuclear facilities is not on the table. [CNN]

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — In regards to the news about Hezbollah fighters infiltrating into Kiryat Shmuna, a source close to us from Kiryat Shmuna denied these rumors, however there are gun fires close to the borders.

📝Just an interesting note for comparison, the third day has passed since the announcement of the land invasion of Lebanon, barely any territorial gains have been made so far, while in 1982, the Israeli army have reached Beirut within the same period of time, 3 days.