...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....and he is preparing to talk to Israel about a mechanism to rein in its combat operations and daily violations of Lebanese illusory sovereignty, the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper quoted two Lebanese sources as saying, one of them close to one of the three presidents (Joseph Aoun, Nabih
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...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
and Nawaf Salam).
Barrack ''hopes to obtain from Israel a step that would help him convince the officials in Lebanon that something is changing in the Israeli conduct, which would open the door to a discussion related to Hezbollah's arms,'' the sources said.
The U.S. envoy has, however, reiterated that his country does not intend to offer guarantees regarding what Israel might decide to do, the sources added.