On Friday morning, we reported on the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attack on Hezbollah headquarters, the primary goal of which was the removal of Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The IDF and the Israeli government, it has been reported, did not notify the United States of their intentions in advance of their attack on Hezbollah headquarters in Lebanon. This begs the question: Why should they?
The United States had no advance warning of an Israeli strike in Beirut and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart as it was ongoing, a Pentagon spokesperson said on Friday.
They were the U.S. government’s first comments about an Israeli operation that defied Washington’s calls for de-escalation and a ceasefire.
“The United States was not involved in this operation and we had no advanced warning,” spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters.
Singh declined to…
