Surprise: Lebanon not interested in peace with Israel
Walid Jumblatt is a key leader of the Druze community in Lebanon who at one time may have been willing to meet with Israelis (the story was later denied). Now, he says Lebanon does not want peace with Israel. "Lebanon does not want peace with Israel, even if it if offers to withdraw from its occupied lands," Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said in an interview to BBC Arabic.Change!
He hinted that the reason for this is the good ties Lebanon currently has with Syria. "Lebanon will be able to gamble on peace once a Palestinian state is established," he added.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:03 PM
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All the whitewashing of the Lebanese government amounted to nothing more then lies. (as if we didn't know that of course) However, all the mountains of $$ to prop up the lies makes me seethe.
Let's see, when did the war on terror get replaced with unadulterated BS?? What happened to that famous slogan about "Those that harbor and sponsor terror?" Who gets to the President no matter who is President and why?
Hezbollah will never agree to peace even IF Israel and Lebanon settle their border differences AND a Palestinian state is established. And Syria is not going to allow Israel to exert influence in what it considers its "backyard." That's why there won't be peace between Israel and Lebanon in our generation.
No matter what Walid Jumblatt thinks.
Caroline Glick just has written a related article about how Yediot Acharonot published a fawning interview with the same Ehud Barak (then Prime Minister, now Defense Minister) and related puff pieces about the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in the spring of 2000, that turned that country into a terrorist state within a state financed by Iran and dominated by Israel. In truth, the Israeli retreat was a strategic, political and diplomatic disaster for the Jewish State. But ten years later the last thing that reigns in the Israeli media is a sense of rationality about all things relating to Lebanon.
More here: Read it all
The Israeli public saw what happened and threw Barak out of office. Because of how he handled Lebanon, he will never again become Prime Minister and what Glick referred as Israel's fiasco has all but drained support in Israel for further territorial retreats. In the end, the Lebanon withdrawal turned out to have a silver lining in the near obliteration of the parties that fathered Oslo from the Israeli political scene.
The country can be grateful things aren't even worse and that is a small solace indeed
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