Just a few links to the good work of others on the Beirut summer party/summit.
Qifa Nabki sees the summit as a means of temperature taking.
Nick Noe suggests that the STL will undermine Hezbollah internationally, hurting it’s image and potentially delegitimizing it.
And this Time article lays out the main points.
Everyone paying attention still seems to be focused on seeing this through a “summer war” lens. It’s certainly plenty hot in Damascus these days (the mercury rose into the neighborhood of 115 today) and you could see how blood could boil…we shall see.