Marco Rubio just got Lebanon to do something it hadn't done since 1983 - comment
Rubio, one of the most genuinely pro-Israel figures around US President Donald Trump, pushed a grinding, thankless process across the line when most of us assumed it would collapse
Assessment
Marco Rubio appears to have brokered a diplomatic breakthrough with Lebanon that breaks a decades-long stalemate. The achievement suggests U.S. leverage with Lebanon has shifted, though the specific terms and what Lebanon actually conceded remain undefined. Attention should turn to whether this deal holds and what reciprocal steps Israel or the U.S. may now offer.