Nasrallah, Berri, Jumblat Call for Calm

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as well as Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Druze leader Walid Jumblat have called for calm.
“Calm … is a national interest under which serious dialogue can be conducted,” Nasrallah said in remarks published by several Beirut dailies on Wednesday.
He warned that the ongoing tense situation would “sabotage dialogue and obstruct [...]

How our negotiator played Nasrallah

Virtually no heroes can be found in the affair of the abducted soldiers, except for the noble Regev and Goldwasser families. Surely a cack-handed cabinet that hastened to wage war without pausing to reflect, and a vociferous media with a penchant for exaggerations and sentimental melodrama, are not among these heroes.
But maybe, in addition to [...]

Jumblatt says surrender of Hizbullah’s weapons to army is ‘inevitable’

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Jumblatt says surrender of Hizbullah’s weapons to army is ‘inevitable’

Psp leader argues state of ‘open war’ already exists in Lebanon

By Maher Zeineddine and Nafez Qawas
Daily Star correspondent

 

BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader MP Walid Jumblatt said on Monday that reaching a comprehensive national defense strategy where arms are to [...]

Geagea challenges Nasrallah to a TV debate

Beirut- Lebanese Forces leader Dr. Samir Geagea, in a swift reaction on Friday, told Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah “you have no right to take us against our will to where we don’t want to go” and challenged him to accept a TV debate
to allow “the Lebanese, the Arabs and the whole world judge” us.
Geagea was [...]