Reports: Abdelatty warns of new Israeli war, politician says 'attack' almost certain
Visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty warned during an overnight dinner of a new Israeli war on Lebanon, MTV reported on Wednesday.
Abdelatty said that such a war will not be limited to aerial strikes, the TV network added.
A Lebanese political source meanwhile told Al-Arabiya that Egypt’s foreign minister warned of an aerial and ground Israeli military action.
“The possible Israeli attack has become almost certain,” the source said.
“The only solution is through Hezbollah’s submission to the government’s decisions, not threats,” the source added.
Abdelatty said Wednesday that his country was working to de-escalate heightened tensions between Hezbollah and Israel.
"We fear any escalation and we fear for the security and stability of Lebanon," Abdelatty said, after meeting President Joseph Aoun in Baabda.
"We are making an intensive effort to spare Lebanon any risks or any aggressive tendencies against its security and safety," he added.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite the truce, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to stop the group from rearming.
According to the ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah was to pull its forces north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the border with Israel and have its military infrastructure there dismantled.
Under a government-approved plan, the Lebanese Army is to dismantle Hezbollah military infrastructure south of the river by the end of the year, before tackling the rest of the country.
The Lebanese military has said it is carrying out its plan to disarm the group, but the U.S. and Israel have accused Lebanese authorities of stalling the process.
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Letter to the editor: Gaining civil rights for Shias should be top priority
Posted February 5, 2015
Noam Chomsky says that Shias are the majority of Lebanon’s population, such that, if free elections were held and if Shias threw all their support to Hezbollah, it could form the government entirely on its own. Yet Article 24 of the Lebanese Constitution reserves half of parliamentary seats for Christians, who number, by my own guess, around a quarter of the population.
Here, in a nutshell, you have the Shia sense of grievance that makes Hezbollah so dynamic a force in politics, and yet also the solution to two problems.
Hezbollah militancy and Lebanese political instability would both be ameliorated if Hezbollah put its main effort into gaining civil rights and political representation for Lebanon’s Shias – and the U.S. could be on the right side of history by aiding that cause.
So go ahead and tell me why not, please.
Christopher C. Rushlau
