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July 14/09
Bible Reading of the day
Holy Gospel of Jesus
Christ according to Saint Matthew 10:34-42.11:1. Do not think that I have come
to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword.
For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one's enemies will be
those of his household.' Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not
worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of
me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of
me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake
will find it. Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives
the one who sent me. Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will
receive a prophet's reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is
righteous will receive a righteous man's reward. And whoever gives only a cup of
cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple--amen,
I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward." When Jesus finished giving
these commands to his twelve disciples, he went away from that place to teach
and to preach in their towns.
Free Opinions, Releases, letters & Special
Reports
Have we hit a snag? NOW Staff/July
13, 2009
Gathering Paradoxes/Future News
13/07/09
Hands reach out to assist
government’s birth. Future News 13/07/09
Latest
News Reports From Miscellaneous Sources for July
13/09
Assad to Kouchner: Syria Has No
Pre-Conditions for Lebanese Government Formation-Naharnet
Hariri Committed to Open-Ended Dialogue on Government Formation-Naharnet
Halutz Defends 2006 War Decision, Kaplinsky Sees Government and Army Mistakes-Naharnet
Harb: ‘unity government’ overturns
Taef agreement-Future
News
Netanyahu tries to obstruct the
cabinet formation-Future
News
Jumblatt concerned over Israel’s
positions against Hizbullah-Future
News
Shatah: Election results cannot be
ignored-Future
News
Siniora
announces official mourning period after death of former PM Amin Hafez-Now
Lebanon
Jumblatt: Nasrallah has
right to admonish me for fierce political rhetoric. Now Lebanom
Kobeissi: No crisis regarding the
government formation-Future News
Hariri discusses with Jumblatt
efforts to form government-Future
News
Assiri: KSA does not interfere in
Lebanon’s affairs-Future
News
France FM tells Israel, Syria to waste no time
in renewing talks-Ha'aretz
Deputy Israeli FM: Conditions not yet ripe for
progress on Syria track-Xinhua
S Korean troops' deployment in Lebanon extended
till next year-Xinhua
Syria: No peace summit until Israel cedes Golan
Heights-Ynetnews
Jumblat Warns against Isolationist Thinking-Naharnet
Kouchner: Syria to Let
Lebanon Form Government without Meddling-Naharnet
Berri: Lebanon's Strength
Lies in Political Unity And Internal Stability-Naharnet
Salloukh: July 2006
Anniversary Strengthens Our Unity, Calls For Speed Government Formation-Naharnet
Nasrallah, Qabalan Stress
Need to Confront Looming Israeli Dangers-Naharnet
Obama Backs Closer
'Engagement' with Syria; Muallem Says Obama's Position 'Encouraging' but
Sanctions 'Unjust'-Naharnet
Former PM Amin al-Hafez
Dies at 88-Naharnet
Mild
earthquake rattles south Lebanon town-Daily
Star
Thousands flock to Broumma for summer street fair-Daily
Star
Arbitrary felling of trees poses serious danger to Jabal Moussa-Daily
Star
Syria won't redraw border with
Lebanon-Jerusalem Post
Candidate Declares Iran May Face 'Disintegration'-New
York Times
2006 Lebanon War Still a Point of Contention in Israel, Lebanon-Reuters
Three years after Lebanon War, IDF warns of Hezbollah rearmament-Ha'aretz
Internal-regional obstacles hinder Lebanese cabinet
formation-Xinhua
Kuntar: Hezbollah will intervene if Iran
attacked-Ynetnews
French Foreign Minister meets Hezbollah MP in
Beirut-European
Jewish Press
Moallem: Damascus demands full Israeli pullout from Golan-Daily
Star
Syria
won't meddle in cabinet formation - Paris-Daily
Star
Riyadh open to all Lebanese political parties - envoy-Daily
Star
New
commission to restructure Future Movement-Daily
Star
Nasrallah, Qabalan call for unity against Israel-Daily
Star
Sleiman to attend NAM meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh-Daily
Star
Jordan 'understands' Lebanese move to release Shaaban-Daily
Star
Fadlallah says Obama has duped Arabs, Muslims-Daily
Star
Sleiman slams continued Israeli violations-Daily
Star
Southern Lebanese say peace deal with Israel will not improve security
-Daily Star
Beirut Stock Exchange down 6.1 percent-By
Regional Press Network (RPN)
Syria won't redraw border with Lebanon
By ALEX SORIN -Jerusalem Post
Syria says it will not redraw its borders with Lebanon until Israel withdraws
from the Shaba Farms area, Syria's ambassador to the UN has made clear.
Syrian representative, Bashar Ja'afari, sent a series of letters to the UN
stipulating that Syria considered the defining of a future Syrian-Lebanese
border, especially regarding the Shaba Farms, unfeasible until Israel withdrew
from the entire area, the Israeli-Arab news Web site Al Arab reported Sunday.
Despite the seriousness of the letters, Israeli experts believe this is just
another attempt by the Syrian regime to create unrest on the international scene
whenever the opportunity presents itself.
"In general, the Syrian regime does everything it can to prevent the reduction
of tensions and greater stability between Israel and Lebanon. It's a matter of
stirring the pot whenever they can," said Gerald Steinberg, head of the
political science department at Bar-Ilan University.
Syria FM: Pullout from Golan for peace
Obama says he's 'troubled' by Syrian behavior
The Shaba Farms, or Mount Dov, were captured from Syria in the 1967 war, and the
issue of the territory's return became a problem after Israel's unilateral
withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 - which, according to the UN, ended the
territorial dispute between Lebanon and Israel. Since the withdrawal, Syria and
Hizbullah have used the site as justification for armed resistance against
Israeli occupation, realizing the world would respond to a border conflict.
"The Syrians use the issue of the Shaba Farms because they want the
international community to think that Israel is a border violator, so they'll do
everything to reenergize the issue," said Dan Diker, senior foreign policy
analyst at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Diker believes that viewing the conflict as a matter of borders is a
misconception, and that it should be approached as a matter of Israel's right to
exist.
"The international community has always responded to border issues. That is why
the international community has always gotten the conflict wrong. We are in a
dispute to see if we can exist in any borders in the Middle East," said Diker.
While Syria's official stance on Mount Dov has been that it belongs to Lebanon,
it is believed that Syria's goal in attempting to reclaim the Golan Heights,
including Mount Dov, is to enhance its own image among other Middle Eastern
nations and to set an example regarding what can be obtained in negotiations
with Israel.
Ja'afari's letters to the UN and the raising of the Lebanon-Syria border issue
come amid incipient attempts by the United States and moderate Arab nations such
as Saudi Arabia and Egypt to pull Syria away from the Iranian-Hizbullah fold.
"It's very difficult to discern Syrian intentions, because their public
statements tend to be contradictory. The Syrian regime has shown that it wants
the benefits from dialogue with the US, but is not willing to change its
position regarding Iran and Hizbullah," said Steinberg.
According to Steinberg, Israel would have to see clear and unprecedented
statements and actions by the US and the international community, including
Europe, that a withdrawal from the Shaba Farms would be the end of any
territorial demands related to Lebanon and Israel, for it to agree to any such
move. Steinberg added that Israel would want a sovereign and stable Lebanon to
take control of the site, rather than Syria, but this move might be a long way
off.
"There is an Israeli interest in reducing the level of tension with Lebanon and
removing as many sources of conflict from the table as possible without
sacrificing its vital interests. The Israeli government will carefully calculate
the cost benefits on a number of different issues, but it's not in the Israeli
interest to have the Shaba Farms become part of Syria," said Steinberg.
Gathering Paradoxes
Date: July 13th, 2009 /Future News
Lebanese consensus on the fact that the cabinet formation has not exceeded the
grace period is a very positive thing. It rules out the possibility of
considering the country as undergoing a political crisis since the government of
ongoing Premier Fouad Siniora’s took 52 days to form it despite the Doha
Agreement which aimed at facilitating its construction.
The time that separates the designation of Saad Hariri for premiership and the
formation of the cabinet cannot be considered a “timeout”. It is spent in
“gathering paradoxes” and repairing the division inflicted on the country over
the past four years. Well done Premier designate Saad Hariri for chanting the
slogan of uniting the Lebanese after their country was weakened politically,
socially and economically by political fragmentation. What is taking place
currently is a serious and true reformulation of the democratic political
practice that reached an “unbearable” situation after so many Lebanese turned
their backs to the constitution.
The issues that all the Lebanese agree and disagree upon simultaneously can be
summarized in three main headlines.
The Consensual Democracy which can no longer be reached since it is used as a
pretext to paralyze the government.
In addition, the Palestinian Implantation which is prohibited by the
constitution literally in its introduction is also used as a political slogan to
intimidate people, although the majority had proposed a draft law that ensures
banning it for good.
Moreover, the Lebanese- Israeli conflict which was consecrated by the Taëf
Agreement is still resurrected from time to time to target a certain faction or
a certain Arab country while disregarding other country’s begging the United
States as well as regional countries to mediate for resuming negotiations with
Israel.
The most bizarre paradox is that some factions are fighting over shares in the
cabinet and not over the government program and the stability, development, job
opportunities it intends to provide for the Lebanese.
Thus what is taking place currently is gathering paradoxes.
Hands reach out to assist government’s birth
Date: July 13th, 2009 Future News
As Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri moves further to form the government,
the domestic connections are expected to witness a thrust, starting from Monday,
to select one of the projected arrangements to attain a ministerial formula that
pleases all counterparts, respects the legislative elections and represents all
the Lebanese.
A new mentality
On the other hand, the Lebanese issue was strongly present at the meeting held
between France’s secretary of state for Foreign Affairs Bernard Koushner and his
Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem who addressed the Lebanese saying “we will take
a step towards anyone who takes a step further towards Syria.”
Kouchner, who went from Beirut to Damascus, had a noteworthy attitude as he said
“a new mentality is being developed in Lebanon based on calls to form the
government as soon as possible”.Kouchner noted that each of France and Syria
“share the outlook that it is important for the Lebanese to form their own
government and for the Lebanese parties and groups, especially Hizbullah, to
cooperate with the PM-designate to form the government.”
Thus, hands are reached out, however the government hasn’t been formed yet and
local leaders are calling for speeding the birth “to confront impending
challenges.”
In this context, the political assistant of Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih
Berri MP Ali Hassan Khalil called for the necessity “to facilitate the mission
of PM-designate” Saad Hariri, and for “being open to discuss the formulas he
will put forward regardless of the political or sectary presence they dedicate
for certain groups but seeing their role in drawing the policies, plans, and
decisions which will protect Lebanon and get it out of the political, economic,
and social crises.”
For his part, member of the Democratic Gathering MP Marwan Hamadeh warned that
if the majority of the parliament got less than 16 portfolios of the upcoming
government, then the ‘March 14’ coalition “would have lost the elections and
sold the designation for local and regional bargains.”
Hamadeh said President Michel Suleiman must be the mediator in the upcoming
government, pointing that the group affiliated with Speaker Berri is dealing in
“relative positivity” regarding the government forming issue, “even if it
sometimes uses expressions to preserve the unity of the opposition”, adding the
Hizbullah insists on having “the obstructing third” veto share of the
government.
Lebanon’s power is… its unity
In parallel with the calm political speech, the third annual memory of the July
war 2006 was an occasion to stress national consensus over the necessity of
uniting to confront the Israeli threats. Speaker Nabih Berri reiterated that
Lebanon’s power during the war “was derived from the coherence of its interior
front and its national political unity”. Minister of Defense in caretaker
government Elias el Murr, for his part, stressed that the security, stability
and civil peace are the “chief priority” in Lebanon.
Hizbullah’s Chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and deputy leader of the Supreme
Islamic Shiite Council Sheikh Abdul Emir Kabalan discussed the continual Israeli
threat, stressing that “the hype practiced by the enemy at Lebanon’s domestic
arena requires a unified national attitude.” The two Shiite leaders stressed the
necessity “to boost the national unity in order to confront the challenges and
crises” and the necessity to maintain the calm atmosphere and openness for the
sake of the homeland.
Have we hit a snag?
July 13, 2009 /NOW Staff
Almost two and a half weeks into Saad Hariri’s designation as prime minister and
immediate attempts to form a cabinet, political insiders have already begun to
declare the process “stalled” and “hampered” as the one-month constitutional
deadline to put together a government looms large. An-Nahar ran the headline,
“Political sources close to the current consultations deemed that the first
stage of domestic talks regarding the distribution of seats in the government is
clearly stalled.” The paper cited March 14 sources as saying Sunday that “the
process of hampering the government formation obviously started in the wake of
Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s reservations and the majority’s outright
rejection of Hariri’s visit to Damascus prior to the formation of the
government.” One of the players involved in the cabinet formation is President
Michel Sleiman, who, according to Al-Akhbar, has his own vision of the new
government, “but he will keep it to himself for the time being.” An MP close to
Hariri told the paper that President Sleiman “is attached to obtaining an
influential Christian share in the government,” but he is also in favor of
including non-Christian ministers within his share. According to a source who
visited the president on Sunday, Al-Akhbar reported, he is still waiting for
Hariri to submit a proposal on the government or to brief the president on his
official viewpoint on the issue. The president, who will be out of the country
as of Tuesday afternoon to participate in the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in
Sharm al-Sheikh, will meet with PM-designate Saad Hariri later this week. As
part of his ongoing consultations, Hariri also met with Progressive Socialist
Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt Sunday evening in his downtown Beirut residence,
though Hariri’s aides would not reveal any details on the talks.
On the opposition side, Loyalty to the Resistance bloc head MP Mohammad Raad
said, according to Al-Akhbar, that communications between Haret Hreik and
Qoreitem are “ongoing, but the problem does not lie between them; rather, it
pertains to foreign pressures and obstacles attempting to hamper the formation
of a [national]-unity government.”Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem, for
his part, declined to comment on the cabinet formation in Lebanon, saying only,
“Syria shall meet halfway with whoever takes a step toward it.”
Jumblatt: Nasrallah has right to admonish me for fierce political rhetoric
July 13, 2009 /NOW Staff
As-Safir newspaper reported on Monday that Progressive Socialist Party leader MP
Walid Jumblatt extensively discussed the 2006 July War with Hezbollah Secretary
General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during their meeting last month. The meeting
came as a rapprochement between the two leaders’ parties, after Jumblatt
softened his stance toward the March 8 coalition.
Jumblatt also said that “Sayyed Nasrallah admonished me for my fierce political
rhetoric during the time when we disagreed, and he has the right to do so, but
the most important thing is that we decided to turn a new page, build trust, and
foster dialogue and reconciliation.”The daily also reported that the PSP leader
is adamant about confronting any possible source of tension between Sunnis and
Shia, emphasizing the importance of reaching an agreement through dialogue on
Hezbollah’s controversial weapons, which are believed to be supplied by Iran and
Syria. Jumblatt voiced deep concern about Israeli officials’ recent statements
on the rearmament of Hezbollah as well as their threats that Tel Aviv will hold
the Lebanese government responsible if it “legitimizes” the party by including
it in the new cabinet.The daily added that Jumblatt warned the Lebanese against
“dangerous repercussions” if they did not unite to confront a possible Israeli
war on Lebanon.
Assad to Kouchner: Syria Has No
Pre-Conditions for Lebanese Government Formation
Naharnet/Syrian President Bashar Assad has reportedly told visiting French
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner that Damascus has no demands or preconditions
for the formation of a Lebanese government. Pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat daily,
citing a high-ranking French source, said Assad appeared to be "comfortable"
during a meeting Sunday with Kouchner.
The source said Assad dealt "openly" and "directly" with the issues that had
been raised, which included in addition to Lebanon, the situations in Iraq and
Iran.
"Syria did not set a list of demands beforehand," the source quoted Assad as
telling Kouchner. He said the Syrian president informed the French foreign
minister he "no longer believes that there are obstacles preventing progress in
Syrian-Lebanese ties, given that Syria maintains communications with the various
(Lebanese) sides." Kouchner said Sunday that Syria agrees Lebanon should be
allowed to form a new government without outside interference. Both Damascus and
Paris believe "it is up to the Lebanese to organize their government" following
their elections in June won by a Western-backed camp, he said after a meeting
with Assad on Sunday. "It is up to the Lebanese parties which I met, including
Hizbullah, to agree under the leadership of Premier-designate Saad Hariri," said
Kouchner, who also held talks last week in Beirut including with Hizbullah.
"There is a new spirit in Lebanon. There is a will to set up a national unity
government as soon as possible," he said. Beirut, 13 Jul 09, 08:12
Hariri Committed to Open-Ended Dialogue on Government Formation
Naharnet/Prime-Minister designate Saad Hariri has committed himself to an
open-ended dialogue process on the formation of a national unity government.
Hariri is set to begin Monday a new round of talks with the various political
parties as President Michel Suleiman embarks on a visit to Sharm al-Sheikh to
take part in the Non-Aligned Movement summit July 15-16.
A high-ranking source told the
daily al-Liwaa that doors to dialogue with the opposition remain open.
The source said delegations from Hizbullah and Speaker Nabih Berri's Amal
Movement are to meet Hariri in Qoreiten on Monday to "narrow the differences."
Meanwhile, An-Nahar newspaper quoted prominent sources from the March 14
coalition as saying "it became clear that restrictions on the process of
government formation were put in place following reservations by Hariri and the
majority's rejection of a visit by the premier-designate to Damascus ahead of a
Cabinet lineup." The sources said neither Hariri nor March 14 forces are willing
to accept the opposition's long-standing demand for veto power in cabinet.
Beirut, 13 Jul 09, 09:23
Halutz Defends 2006 War Decision, Kaplinsky Sees Government and Army Mistakes
Naharnet/Three years after the war with Hizbullah, former Israeli army chief Dan
Halutz said he would have recommended the military to make the same move were
the conflict to erupt again. "Even today, given the same figures, I would have
recommended the same course of action," Halutz told a conference at the Tel Aviv
University's Center for Strategic Research on Sunday. "The course of action that
I recommended on July 12 was well-considered, not trellised on the day of the
abduction" by Hizbullah of two Israeli soldiers in a deadly cross-border raid,
said Halutz, who led the army at the time of the war.
However, Kadima lawmaker Shaul Mofaz, a former defense minister in the Israeli
cabinet during the 2006 war, said that Israel had achieved only limited success
during the war.
Mofaz termed the war a missed opportunity for the Jewish state and told Israel
Radio that Hizbullah now has more missiles than it did prior to the military
operation. He also said that the Shiite group had increased the range of its
rockets. Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky, who served as the Israeli army's deputy
chief of staff during the 34-day war, agreed with Mofaz saying that both the
army and the government made numerous mistakes.Kaplinsky, who spoke during the
conference aimed at marking the third anniversary of the war, said the Israeli
military did not employ its preplanned reaction in case of soldier abduction and
rocket fire. He added that the army also failed to utilize all of the units and
tools at its disposal and was too slow at calling up reserve units. Also present
at the research center was Giora Eiland, former head of the Israeli National
Security Council.
Eiland criticized ex-PM Ehud Olmert's government, saying that the war with
Hizbullah and Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip were two occasions in which
the political echelon ordered a military campaign without setting clear
operational goals. Eiland believes the Gaza offensive was troubled by the same
symptoms which led to the failure of the Israel-Hizbullah war: "Government
meeting on July 12 (2006) failed to clearly define the goals," he said.
According to the former National Security Council chief, the best course of
action Olmert could have taken at the time was "to order a forceful retaliation
by using the air force for two or three days, and make Hizbullah pay a high
price." Beirut, 13 Jul 09, 08:15
Aoun: Those who Criticize Proportional Representation Don't Want the Country to
Rise
Naharnet/Free Patriotic Movement leader Gen. Michel Aoun reiterated on Monday
that he holds onto the choice of proportional representation in the new cabinet.
Aoun also stressed that he backs PM-designate Saad Hariri and wants the new
government to succeed "because we want to build the country and we reject the
formation of the cabinet in Arab countries."In answering those who criticize
proportionality, the MP said: "They only crave for power and don't want the
country to rise." Beirut, 13 Jul 09, 13:16
Former PM Amin al-Hafez Dies at
88
Naharnet/Former Lebanese Prime Minister Amin al-Hafez died at Hotel Dieu
hospital on Monday. He was 88. Al-Hafez was born in the northern port city of
Tripoli in 1921. He became prime minister for less than two months on April 25,
1973 when Suleiman Franjieh was president. He will be buried in Tripoli at noon
Tuesday. The premiership announced a three-day mourning period starting Tuesday
during which flags will be flown at half-mast and media outlets would alter
"normal programming." Beirut, 13 Jul 09, 11:58
Jumblat Warns against Isolationist Thinking
Naharnet/Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has renewed his
criticism of March 14 forces for its slogan "Lebanon first" and warned against
"isolationist thinking" that could invade what he called the "thinking of Rafik
Hariri's audience." The daily As-Safir on Monday quoted visitors as saying
Jumblat was ready to "face up to" anybody who could be a source of Sunni-Shiite
tension. Jumblat has also called for resolving Hizbullah arms through dialogue.
On the July 2006 Lebanon-Israel war, Jumblat said Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan
Nasrallah rebuked him for the "ferocious political rhetoric" during the time had
the "right to admonish me for the ferocious political rhetoric during the phases
of the dispute."
"He (Nasrallah) had the right to admonish me," Jumblat reportedly told visitors.
"What is important is that we have decided to turn a page on the past." Beirut,
13 Jul 09, 10:58
Kouchner: Syria to Let Lebanon Form Government without Meddling
Naharnet/French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said during a Damascus visit
on Sunday that Syria agrees Lebanon should be allowed to form a new government
without outside interference. Both Damascus and Paris believe "it is up to the
Lebanese to organize their government" following their elections in June won by
a Western-backed camp, he said after a meeting with Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad. "It is up to the Lebanese parties which I met, including Hizbullah, to
agree under the leadership of Premier-designate Saad Hariri," said Kouchner, who
also held talks last week in Beirut including with Hizbullah. "There is a new
spirit in Lebanon. There is a will to set up a national unity government as soon
as possible," he said. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem voiced relief at
the "ongoing national dialogue in Lebanon for the formation of a unity
government."
On Lebanese-Syrian ties, he said: "We will take a step toward those who take a
step toward Syria." "We believe that some Lebanese leaders have begun to
understand the historical and geographical facts … that connect Syria and
Lebanon. We welcome this and call for a more in-depth understanding of these
facts," he said. On Saudi Arabia, Muallem said there was "no Saudi-Syrian
reconciliation because both countries enjoy good bilateral ties." "There are the
highest-level of visits between the two countries," he added. Muallem welcomed
an upcoming visit to Damascus by Saudi King Abdullah, adding a date will be
determined at a later time. In Beirut on Friday, the French foreign minister
said that he was pleased with the improvement of his country's relations with
Syria, Lebanon's former powerbroker. "I am not unaware that Syria continues to
be important in this part of the world, and we are pleased to have established
normal relations with Syria," Kouchner said. Diplomats in Riyadh, meanwhile, say
that the Saudi kingdom has welcomed Damascus's apparent non-interference in
Lebanon's June 7 elections, which led to Hariri's designation as
premier.(Naharnet-AFP) Beirut, 12 Jul 09, 15:58
Berri: Lebanon's Strength Lies in Political Unity And Internal Stability
Naharnet/Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said that Lebanon's strength has always
been in the country's true holding of it's internal elements and political
unity. On the occasion of the third anniversary of the July 2006 war with
Israel, Berri issued his tribute to the lives of all those that gave their lives
"from the military and the resistance only to register a wonderful historical
and glorious epoch for our people."Berri expressed his hope that the next
Lebanese government would place the issue of compensation and that of the Litani
River project at the top of its priorities. Beirut, 12 Jul 09, 14:00