Bassil to LBCI: The demarcation agreement is hinging on a single word, which is simple and not simple at the s... https://t.co/V6ggLn3fvR
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Report: Lebanon inclined to accept Hochstein's final offerAoun hopes for gas deal within 'next few days' https://t.co/NCg8UOJlmN
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[An Nahar] Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...is inclined to agree in principle to the U.S. proposal regarding sea border demarcation with Israel, a Lebanese diplomatic source said.
The country will "link the final approval to the return of the Naqoura meetings, in which the documents will be formulated and the technical coordinates will be specified," the source told Russia’s Sputnik news agency.
"Lebanon will achieve one of its demands, which is not linking exploration and extraction in Block 9 and the undiscovered Qana field to Israel’s negotiations with French company TotalEnergies over its share fro