In a remarkable political escalation, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar directed a series of accusations against Hezbollah, speaking about the party’s role in disrupting the negotiating track with Lebanon, holding it responsible for sliding into war, at a time when he touched on the relationship between the escalation with Iran and Donald Trump’s position.
In an interview with Al Arabiya, Sa’ar said, “Hezbollah wants to harm our negotiations with Lebanon,” adding that the party “dragged Lebanon into war.”
He considered that “the claim that Israel dragged President Trump into a war with Iran is absurd,” stressing that “the dangerous nature of the Iranian regime is what pushes Trump to war.”
These statements come in the context of a continuing escalation on more than one front, amid growing tension between Israel and Hezbollah on the Lebanese border, in parallel with the escalation of the regional confrontation linked to the Iranian file, which complicates the paths of calm and increases the possibilities of the conflict expanding.
