Lebanese Politics: What About Tom Friedman’s Victory Lap?..........
“BEIRUT - Hezbollah's right to defend Lebanon acknowledged. Lebanon's new cabinet has agreed on a policy statement that acknowledges Hezbollah's right to use its weapons to defend the country against Israeli aggression. Information Minister Tarek Mitri said late Wednesday after a cabinet committee set up to draft the statement met for the ninth time that an agreement had been reached. He said the new statement will retain the same clause approved by the previous cabinet as concerns the arsenal of Hezbollah. The clause states the right of "Lebanon, its government, its people, its army and its resistance" to liberate all Lebanese territory. Hezbollah is commonly referred to as the resistance in Lebanon. Israel waged a bloody 34-day war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 after Hezbollah fighters seized two Israeli soldiers in a deadly cross-border raid that aimed to free Lebanese soldiers from Israeli prisons. The bodies of the soldiers were returned in a prisoner swap. The war claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers.………”
Apparently Tom Friedma (N Y Times), and others in American and Arab oligarchy media, did their victory lap prematurely after the last election in Lebanon.
I hate to say it, but I told them so. Right here……
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