Lebanon repudiates UN 1559 outlawing Hizballah terror militiaDEBKAfile Special Report December 23, 2009, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)  C 18 - latest Syrian delivery to Hizballah Lebanon has announced its repudiation of 2004 UN Security Council resolution 1559 which in 2004 ordered all militias including Hizballah disbanded and disarmed. The announcement came two days after Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki visited Beirut and shortly after Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri held talks in Damascus with Syrian president Bashar Assad. | ||
Mubarak on urgent trip to Gulf about Iran's reconciliation moveDEBKAfile Special Report December 22, 2009, 8:28 PM (GMT+02:00)  Iranian Speaker in Cairo While Israel was wholly caught up in the next stage of a deal with Hamas for trading its soldier Gilead Shalit for several hundred jailed Palestinians, the Iran-Syrian axis pounced with swift moves to mend its fences with moderate Arab rulers. Sunday, Dec. 20, the powerful Iranian speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, arrived in Cairo and was received at once by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak for a conversation lasting two hours. Without wasting a moment, the next day, the Egyptian president flew to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Arab emirates. | ||
Top seven cabinet ministers direct prisoner negotiator to carry on
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December 22, 2009, 7:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
Noam and Aviva Shalit in herculean battle to save their son
No clear decision was reported by the seven-minister forum in the small hours of Tuesday, Dec. 22, when it wound up 48 hours of deliberations on the deal with Hamas to release Gilead Shalit, held more than three years, against nearly a thousand Palestinian prisoners. The prime minister's office said only that the ministers had instructed Israel's negotiating team headed by Hagai Hadas "to carry on working for Gilead Shalit's return safe and well."
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