Rajji: Only a diplomatic solution, not a military one, can ensure stability
Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Friday asked his visiting German counterpart Johann Wadephul to "help put pressure on Israel to stop its attacks."
"Only a diplomatic solution, not a military one, can ensure stability and guarantee calm in the south," Rajji was quoted by the National News Agency as saying.
He added that "the Lebanese government is continuing to gradually implement its decision to place all weapons under its control."
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Letter to the editor: Gaining civil rights for Shias should be top priority
Posted February 5, 2015
Noam Chomsky says that Shias are the majority of Lebanon’s population, such that, if free elections were held and if Shias threw all their support to Hezbollah, it could form the government entirely on its own. Yet Article 24 of the Lebanese Constitution reserves half of parliamentary seats for Christians, who number, by my own guess, around a quarter of the population.
Here, in a nutshell, you have the Shia sense of grievance that makes Hezbollah so dynamic a force in politics, and yet also the solution to two problems.
Hezbollah militancy and Lebanese political instability would both be ameliorated if Hezbollah put its main effort into gaining civil rights and political representation for Lebanon’s Shias – and the U.S. could be on the right side of history by aiding that cause.
So go ahead and tell me why not, please.
Christopher C. Rushlau
