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Three Ceasefires, All Collapsing: Lebanon, Gaza & Hormuz | Jun 1
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Three announced ceasefires across the Middle East are fracturing simultaneously — Lebanon, Gaza, and the US-Iran Hormuz channel. Today's briefing maps the gap between diplomatic declarations and ground reality, and explains what it means for regional stability.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Three active ceasefires across the Middle East. All three announced.
Start with Lebanon. A ceasefire was announced between Israel and Hezbollah, built around a US proposal: Hezbollah agrees to halt strikes on Beirut, Israel agrees to restraint.
The friction at the top is now out in the open. Trump called Netanyahu directly and pushed hard to scale back Lebanon operations.
Trump told ABC News that a deal covering the Strait of Hormuz reopening and a broader ceasefire extension is achievable within seven days. That's an ambitious timeline given what remains unresolved.
Simultaneously, the US trade office proposed new forced-labor tariffs of between ten and twelve-and-a-half percent on sixty trading partners. The justification is failure to enforce import prohibitions on goods produced with forced labor.
One more moving part. The Knesset passed the first reading of a dissolution bill by a hundred and six votes to zero.
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