Hezbollah-led pullout brings down Lebanon's government

By artappraiser on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 3:58pm |

By Nicholas Blanford, Christian Science Monitor, January 12, 2010

Fearing the international indictment of some of its leaders for the 2005 killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Hezbollah ministers resigned Wednesday, causing the collapse of Lebanon's coalition government.

It happened shortly AFTER Obama met with Prime Minister Hariri at the White House:

Obama Meets With Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri
By Kent Klein, VOA News, January 12, 2011

Also see

Lebanon analysis: Fear of war as Beirut leaps into the unknown
By Ian Black, The Guardian, January 12, 2010

Coalition's collapse is a sharp reminder of the poisonous legacy of prime minister Rafiq Hariri's murder in 2005

and

Cinton statement: Lebanon crisis is bid to subvert justice
Reuters, January 12, 2010

URL:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0112/Hezbollah-led-pullout-brings-down-Lebanon-s-government

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Al-Jazeera coverage:

Lebanese government collapses
Government falls after Hezbollah and allies withdraw from coalition in row over UN probe into murder of Rafiq al-Hariri.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011112151356430829...

Syria-Saudi fail on Hariri deal
Efforts to reach an agreement to ease political tensions in Lebanon reach a "dead end", MP says.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/201111204453669848....

Lebanon simmers as Hezbollah braces
The movement has made it clear that to cooperate with the Special Tribunal is to collaborate with its enemies.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2010/10/201010318415152651.html

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 4:07pm

Now, 'Everyone Will Hold Their Breath':

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132865027/lebanese-govern...

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 4:21pm

When, oh when, will the dust settle from the beakup of the Ottoman Empire?

apparently, almost a century is no where near long enough.

by jollyroger on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 4:40pm

Think along the lines that it's not gone, the Levant as the current Ottoman Empire, like it was back in the day? Seems to me they still might need quite a few more centuries to get over crusades (notice I did not say The Crusades.) Either that or you could move the Levant to the moon, that might help the world a lot.

Struck me with this story that it would behoove many in the political blogosphere to comparatively ponder a bit more, U.S. politics vs. this Levantine democracy and perhaps another. They have real tribe tribes equalling their political parties, because they know nothing else, but we are currently chosing to make ours tribal. Fake tribalism. Why would we do that?

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:05pm

Hezbollah leader Nasrallah in no hurry to spark civil war in Lebanon

By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Ha'aret/MESS Report, January 13

Security sources tell Haaretz that at this point the developments in Lebanon are internal and there is no immediate risk of a conflict on the northern border.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/mess-report/hezbollah-leader-nasrallah-in-n...

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:39am

Saudi Arabia abandons Lebanon mediation

By By Abeer Allam in Riyadh

Published: January 19 2011 16:15 | Last updated: January 19 2011 16:15

Saudi Arabia has “washed its hands” of Lebanon after mediation efforts to reconcile the country’s competing political factions reached deadlock, leading to a “dangerous” situation in the country, a Saudi official has said.

King Abdullah “directly contacted the Syrian president and they agreed to solve the Lebanese issue, but it did not happen,’’ Saud al-Faisal, Saudi foreign minister, told the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television, adding that the king had decided after that to “wash his hands of Lebanon’’.....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3a3f938-23dd-11e0-8bb1-00144feab49a,s01=1.htm...

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 11:42am

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