A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
party has said that it will not attend a dinner banquet that will be held Tuesday between Swiss Ambassador to 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...Marion Weichelt Krupski and representatives of the Lebanese political parties.
Al-Jadeed TV had reported that the meeting is aimed at preparing for a dialogue conference that will be held in Geneva, noting that the conference will involve several "official sessions."
"We are not considering a national dialogue at the moment, but we are rather focused on the presidential election," the LF said in a statement.
The statement added that a dialogue with Hezbollah is "useless" as long as the latter insists on infringing the constitution and the state.
The statement went on to say that the LF would only participate in a dialogue that would not divert attention away from a juncture of major importance like the presidential election and that "any dialogue must be preceded by a worksheet that abides by the constitution, the Taif Agreement, and the Lebanese principles."