Monday, January 7, 2008

Blocking Peace in Lebanon

I'll give you one clue who:

"Arab League Backs Plan to End Lebanon Stalemate"

CAIRO (Reuters) — The Arab League on Sunday approved a proposal to end the constitutional crisis in Lebanon. Diplomats said the plan had support from Syria, which has ties to the Lebanese opposition, and from the Lebanese parliamentary majority.

The plan, approved by Arab foreign ministers meeting at the Arab League in Cairo, endorses the choice of the army chief, Gen. Michel Suleiman, as the next president of Lebanon and provides that he be the arbiter in any contested decisions.

But members of Hezbollah, the Shiite group at the heart of the Lebanese opposition, gave a more cautious response to the plan. Hussein Haj Hassan, a Hezbollah member of Parliament, told Al Manar, the Hezbollah television station, that the opposition wanted clarifications on some aspects of the next government.

Muhammad Raad, the leader of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, said the movement would wait to see what happened next:

We don’t want to be pessimistic or block the route to any productive decision, especially in a complicated matter like the Lebanese issue.”

Walid al-Moallem, the Syrian foreign minister, told reporters that a solution in Lebanon was up to the Lebanese:

I hope that our Lebanese brothers will think hard before reacting while they wait for the secretary general of the Arab League to arrive to hear from him the Arab point of view."

Mr. Moallem said the United States was obstructing consensus in Lebanon, through words and deeds. He did not elaborate.

Yup, and the New York Times -- or Reuters, in this case -- WON'T INVESTIGATE!!!

Just like the
Hariri case.

The draft does not attack Syria, and it enhances the role of General Suleiman, widely seen as sympathetic to Syrian interests. Lebanese officials said the Arab League secretary general, Amr Moussa, would visit their capital, Beirut, this week to push through a deal."

I'd BEWARE of any
FALSE-FLAG OPERATION by MOSSAD this week, readers!