{"id":68457,"date":"2026-05-28T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=68457"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:15:02","slug":"behind-the-scenes-the-suspicious-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=68457","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes &#8211; The Suspicious Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\" style=\"text-align: left;\" id=\"exclusive-jnews-lebanon\">Exclusive JNews Lebanon<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Political observers speaking to JNews Lebanon have expressed deep concern over Lebanese officials&#8217; deliberate decision to keep high-stakes diplomatic communications with Washington under strict secrecy. Data indicates that an absolute official blackout surrounds the ongoing contacts aimed at securing decisive US guarantees to prevent the targeting of Beirut and its southern suburbs (Dahiyeh) in the current wave of military escalation. This total omert\u00e0 raises growing fears that the silence is a direct result of stringent, uncompromising US conditions tied to the future security arrangements of the &#8220;Post-Yellow Line&#8221; phase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Read also&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=68269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Behind the Scenes \u2013 JNews Lebanon Reveals Marco Rubio\u2019s Firm Message to Naim Qassem<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=68454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read this article in Arabic (Click Here)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Exclusive JNews Lebanon Political observers speaking to JNews Lebanon have expressed deep concern over Lebanese officials&#8217; deliberate decision to keep high-stakes diplomatic communications with Washington under strict secrecy. Data indicates that an absolute official blackout surrounds the ongoing contacts aimed at securing decisive US guarantees to prevent the targeting of Beirut and its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow0Jy2DA:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9412],"tags":[9531,9715,3053,9713,9716,9712,9714,9717],"class_list":["post-68457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","tag-beirut-security","tag-dahiyeh-meltdown","tag-jnews-lebanon","tag-protect-beirut","tag-secret-diplomacy","tag-suspicious-silence","tag-us-conditions","tag-washington-talks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Behind the scenes - The Suspicious Silence - JNews Lebanon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Exclusive by JNews Lebanon: Political observers express deep concern over the official blackout regarding high-stakes US to protect Beirut\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=68457\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Behind the scenes - The Suspicious Silence - JNews Lebanon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Exclusive by JNews Lebanon: Political observers express deep concern over the official blackout regarding high-stakes US to protect Beirut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=68457\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"JNews Lebanon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/JNewsLebanon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-28T16:15:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/105519.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"581\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joyce Houeiss\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@JnewsLebanon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@JnewsLebanon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"\u0643\u064f\u062a\u0628 \u0628\u0648\u0627\u0633\u0637\u0629\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joyce Houeiss\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"\u0648\u0642\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0631\u0627\u0621\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u064f\u0642\u062f\u0651\u0631\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"\u062f\u0642\u064a\u0642\u062a\u0627\u0646\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jnewslebanon.com\\\/?p=68457#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jnewslebanon.com\\\/?p=68457\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Joyce Houeiss\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jnewslebanon.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1496ca3e3c2690ded2c688e7fd056b46\"},\"headline\":\"Behind the scenes &#8211; 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