July 29, 2008

Lebanonwire

Lebanon Press Highlights

Contacts halt escalation, brings things back to course

Four points impeding policy statement amid a slight progress towards 'the creative formula'

Overnight clashes between Bab El Tabaneh and Jabal Mohsen

Geagea: The other side wants to impose things on us

Harb: I am surprised with Raad's threats to use force, impose conditions on others

Raad: Resistance doesn't have a special project, aims at having a state that would defend Lebanon

Fadlallah: Business not politics motivated Hariri to visit Najaf

Kataeb: Weapons should be in the hands of the state alone

Yakan: Lebanon without resistance is a fragile entity

Aoun praises resistance, says Hezbollah is not terrorist

As-Safir

Aoun: Lebanon cannot give up resistance weapons as a point of strength before resolving all issues relating to Israel, including the right of return and settlement

Emigrants' card is a good step that should be completed by giving nationality to deservers

Mitri speaks of differences within policy statement committee

Qabalan: Let us keep the resistance as a standby army

Geagea: No deadline for finalizing policy statement

Abu Faour to Raad: The language of threats is in nobody's interest

Al-Mustaqbal

Wide denunciation of Hezbollah's threats

Aoun holds to 'resistance weapons' till Palestinians' right of return takes effect

Olmert: Hezbollah doesn't want confrontation because it is busy with domestic affairs

Mohammad Raad's threats negate assumption that March 14 was... defeated - Fares Khashan

Al-Akhbar

Berri expects policy statement to be finalized today

Suleiman intervenes in an advisory manner to save stalled government - Nicholas Nassif

Suleiman in Syria: An unstained equation - Ghassan Saoud

Three directions within loyalists with Jumblat in the middle - Jean Aziz

2/3 of the Lebanese not happy with how the opposition is dealing with the file of the missing - Abdo Saad