Rhami Khouri is the Editor-at-Large of the Beirut Star newspaper - published throughout the Middle East together with the IHT. He has written this op-ed piece, published in The Age:
"The Israeli attack that killed scores of elderly people and handicapped children in the southern Lebanese town of Qana early on Sunday has triggered reactions that collectively may prove to be a turning point in the fighting, and perhaps even in the 58-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict.
......sentiments of rage by Lebanese citizens are the core of wider political feelings that may soon be translated into novel, and potentially historic, diplomatic action. This was reflected most dramatically on Sunday morning when Lebanon's Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, and the Speaker of the Parliament, Nabih Berri, told a news conference that, in view of the massacre at Qana, the Lebanese Government had nothing to discuss except an immediate and unconditional ceasefire."
Khouri's views accord with most informed opinion. Just check out, for instance, Tony Walker in the Fin Review this morning - unfortunately not on line. Read the Khouri piece here.
"The Israeli attack that killed scores of elderly people and handicapped children in the southern Lebanese town of Qana early on Sunday has triggered reactions that collectively may prove to be a turning point in the fighting, and perhaps even in the 58-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict.
......sentiments of rage by Lebanese citizens are the core of wider political feelings that may soon be translated into novel, and potentially historic, diplomatic action. This was reflected most dramatically on Sunday morning when Lebanon's Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, and the Speaker of the Parliament, Nabih Berri, told a news conference that, in view of the massacre at Qana, the Lebanese Government had nothing to discuss except an immediate and unconditional ceasefire."
Khouri's views accord with most informed opinion. Just check out, for instance, Tony Walker in the Fin Review this morning - unfortunately not on line. Read the Khouri piece here.
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