The failure of the latest Arab League mission to get Lebanon's parliament backed government and the Iran- and Syria-supported opposition to talk together shows that outsiders control the country's destiny, analysts said on Saturday. "Last-minute hardening of their positions, especially by the opposition, ensured that the Arab League mission would fail," an Arab diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The solution is no longer in the hands of the Lebanese themselves, but with foreign powers that support one or other camp."The league delegation headed by Secretary General Amr Moussa left Beirut empty-handed on Friday after four days of trying to persuade the feuding camps to talk and end seven months of political paralysis. While Moussa 's proposal for new dialogue "made some headway, the opposition demanded the unconditional formation of a national unity government," the Arab source said. "It refused to give guarantees demanded by those in power on the continuity of this government and the holding of presidential elections" scheduled in September to elect a successor to pro-Damascus President Emile Lahoud.