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Tim Kaine: “The United States got Israel and Lebanon to sit down at a…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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If You Make Diplomacy Impossible, You Make War Inevitable

Published | Video Starts at 06:17

And that's why we've grown from 17 votes to 40 votes, because of people really, really worried about the scale of civilian deaths. It was just announced. This is a good thing. The United States got Israel and Lebanon to sit down at a negotiating table. And, and the headline was, for the first time in decades, Israel and Lebanon are next door neighbors and they have to be able to manage their own relationships. (06:17–06:22)

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Asserts that the US facilitated negotiations between Israel and Lebanon.

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