Lebanon's Aoun to Give Trump a Plan Linking Hezbollah Disarmament to Israeli Withdrawal

President Joseph Aoun meets Donald Trump on July 21 carrying a written proposal, reported by Reuters, that ties Hezbollah's disarmament to Israel's troop withdrawal — treating them as interdependent, not sequential. Aoun told Secretary Rubio on July 19 that both sides must move beyond consensus on the objective to concrete timelines. The approach puts Washington, as mediator, in the position of deciding who moves first.