Word: siniora
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...children." By that measure, peace is a long way off in the Middle East. Even as the U.S. and France sought to craft a cease-fire through the U.N. Security Council, the war between Israel and Hizballah added to its toll of the innocent. Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said last week that 900 Lebanese had died in three weeks of fighting, most of them civilian victims of Israeli aerial attacks. A third of the dead, said Siniora, were children under 12, an estimate the U.N. supports. Across northern Israel, the Israeli military reports, 33 people have died...
...didn't help that Peretz knew about the Qana bombing and hadn't mentioned it. As the day wore on and the dimensions of the tragedy became apparent, Rice called a grief-stricken Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora, cancelled her trip to Beirut and in the late afternoon disappeared behind closed doors for an hour-and-a-half meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the second such meeting in as many days. She called President Bush three times during...
...only work if Hizballah is prepared to allow it to work." Even so, U.S. officials still hope the foreign presence could strengthen the political forces inside Lebanon--Christian, Druze, Sunni and others--that resent political domination by Hizballah's private army, perhaps to the point that Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government would finally move against it. But Aaron Miller, a former top U.S. Middle East negotiator, says Lebanon's political fragility means that a serious try at bringing Hizballah under government control "can't be done without triggering civil...
...disputes with Lebanon over owndership of the Shebaa Farms area and the fate of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails. The Qana killings will likely increase Hizballah's influence over the position of the Lebanese government: The two Lebanese officials with whom Secretary Rice met last week - Prime Minister Fuad Siniora and parliament speaker Nabih Berri - indicated Sunday that there was no purpose to her returning to until a cease-fire could be delivered...
...Lebanese side, the various factions, including Hizballah, had made a breakthrough of sorts last week by agreeing to back the Siniora government as its single representative in any negotiations. Indeed, even after Sunday?s incident at Qana, Dr. Mohammad Chatah, senior advisor to the Prime Minister told Time that ?nothing has changed as far as the position of the government on the underlying issues.? However, the Qana incident was a ?war crime.? Said Chatah, ?You cannot fight a war by killing civilians. We want this to end. And it can end. Our plan is still...