...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
delegation led by Assistant Secretary-General Hossam Zaki will visit Beirut Monday in a bid to resolve
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....'s row with the Gulf countries, media reports said.Senior sources meanwhile told the PSP's al-Anbaa news portal that the delegation is not expected to achieve a breakthrough due to "Hizbullah
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Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
's inflexible stance, which is preventing (Information Minister George) Kordahi from bowing to the desire of (Prime Minister Najib) Miqati," who wants him to resign to "preserve Lebanon's Arab relations."
La Belle France, which supports Miqati and rejects the government's resignation, has meanwhile failed to ease the stern Saudi and Gulf stance on Lebanon, the sources added.
MP Ali Darwish of Miqati's parliamentary bloc for his part told al-Anbaa that "Miqati's behind-the-scenes domestic and foreign contacts" are what led to the vaporous Arab League delegation's visit to Lebanon.
The delegation will seek to "lower the levek of tension and start working for a settlement," Darwish added.