PA accuses Hezbollah of undermining peace process

[lord of the mark]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...st_hizbollah_dc

[DinoDoc]

Duh!

[MikeH]

I haven't seen Park Avenue posting for ages.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Duh!

More than a duh moment, I think. Its not just the "evil likudniks" in Israel and at the Pentagon - even the Palestinian Authority is fingering Hezb, and by extension, Iran, of undermining the long hoped for peace.

[Wezil]

But what will/can they do about it?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Wezil
But what will/can they do about it?

press the europeans and the Russians, who CLAIM to be supportive of Abbas and the Pal Auth, to pressure Iran to cease its support for Hezbolah.

[Shogun Gunner]

And in other news, Israeli slaves chafe under Eygptian rulers. Moses speaks out against the Pharoah. Details at 11.

[GePap]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


press the europeans and the Russians, who CLAIM to be supportive of Abbas and the Pal Auth, to pressure Iran to cease its support for Hezbolah.

Or maybe, pressure them to pressure Hezbollah to stick to Lebanon? Or is that askign for too little?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by GePap


Or maybe, pressure them to pressure Hezbollah to stick to Lebanon? Or is that askign for too little?

If youre abbas trying to survive from week to week, thats probably enough - the longer term issues of Iranian power in Lebanon can be deferred.

[Edan]

French President Jacques Chirac on Monday rebuffed Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's request to add the militant Hezbollah organization to the European Union's list of terror organizations.

During a meeting with Shalom on Monday afternoon, Chirac said France's efforts in the coming weeks will be focused primarily on the democratic process in Lebanon and the upcoming elections to be held in two months.

Shalom made the request during a meeting with his French counterpart Michel Barnier earlier this month.

The EU will hold an initial discussion on the Israeli request, which is based on the danger posed by Hezbollah to new Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Both Israeli and Palestinian sources have accused the Hezbollah of trying to organize Palestinian attacks on Israelis, in order to torpedo the cease-fire understandings reached between Abbas and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at Sharm el-Sheikh last week.

France has played the primary role in blocking the addition of the Hezbollah to the list to date.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/540152.html

[Tassadar500]

Stupid France.

[The Mad Monk]

Now that Lebanon is starting to implode, I wonder if France will see things differently.

[Ted Striker]

Let's just hope that we aren't using the crap that's going on in Lebanon as an excuse to strike out at Syria.

We've bitten off more than we can chew and need to take care of the problems at hand instead of name calling, or adding more hits to the list, like Outposts of Tyranny, or Fortresses of Oppression, or whatever dumbass high school intern marketing slogan is being used by the State Department this week.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Let's just hope that we aren't using the crap that's going on in Lebanon as an excuse to strike out at Syria.

We've bitten off more than we can chew and need to take care of the problems at hand instead of name calling, or adding more hits to the list, like Outposts of Tyranny, or Fortresses of Oppression, or whatever dumbass high school intern marketing slogan is being used by the State Department this week.

I think this week it's Depots of Despotism, next week it's Bastions of buggery.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Now that Lebanon is starting to implode, I wonder if France will see things differently.

I don't know if it is starting to implode but it does seem likely that Syrian allies are behind the assassination of the former Prime Minster. The guy was an out spoken critic of Syria and continually called for Syria to remove its occupation force; next thing you know he ends up dead.