The Biden administration can offer an immediate gesture of good will by lifting the State Department's $10 million reward for Mohammad al-Jolani, the H.T.S. leader.
If H.T.S. really wants to cement a different relationship with Washington, it can also demand Russia's military withdrawal from Syria, much as Egypt's Anwar Sadat did in the 1970s.
Hezbollah will struggle to survive as Lebanon's dominant political entity if it doesn't have an easy way to rearm itself.
The legal basis is full application of the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1701, which insists there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese state.
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