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Tweetmaybe I’m ignorant of Lebanese politics, but I just can’t help forget:
- the series of kidnappings of Westerners in Lebanon, including several Americans, in the 1980s;
- the suicide truck bombings that killed more than 200 U.S. Marines at their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983;
- the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847, which featured the famous footage of the plane’s pilot leaning out of the cockpit with a gun to his head;
- two major 1990s attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina—the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy (killing twenty-nine) and the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center (killing ninety-five).
- a July 2006 raid on a border post in northern Israel in which two Israeli soldiers were taken captive. The abductions sparked an Israeli military campaign against Lebanon to which Hezbollah responded by firing rockets across the Lebanese border into Israel.
So why is Lebanon’s President comprimising with terrorists?
Lebanese President Makes “Resistance” Compromise
As part of the attempts to consolidate a platform for Lebanon’s unity government, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has drawn up a draft compromise for the section on the resistance (to Israel), under which the Lebanese government “recognizes the right of Lebanon and of the resistance to liberate lands still occupied and to confront the threats and injuries by Israel, and stresses Lebanon’s obligation under the U.N. resolutions, including 1701.“
The opposition supports this draft, but the March 14 Forces have asked for additional consultation over it.
Source: Al-Akhbar, Lebanon, July 30, 2008
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