And never forget who the biggest destabilizer is: Israel
"Diplomats scrambling to push deal for Lebanon as clock ticks" by Nadim Ladki/Reuters November 19, 2007
BEIRUT - Diplomats intensified their efforts yesterday to get rival Lebanese leaders to agree on a successor to the president whose term ends this week, a step vital to defusing a prolonged crisis.
Lebanon faces the prospect of two parallel governments and maybe bloodshed if Parliament's Western-backed majority and the Hezbollah-led opposition fail on Wednesday to elect a successor to pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, whose term ends Friday.
The deadlock, the climax of a year-old political crisis that has paralyzed the country.
In Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad discussed the Lebanese crisis with Jordan's King Abdullah II. The pro-American monarch, on a rare visit to Syria, has good relations with anti-Syrian Lebanese majority leader Saad al-Hariri.
A joint communique said "the two leaders affirmed the need to reach a compromise solution that preserves Lebanon's stability."
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