Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

July 19, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://jrep.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enZone=Articles&enDispWho=Article^l1026

Save Resolution 1559

(Jerusalem Report) Ehud Yaari - Will Hizballah Secretary General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah be allowed to freeze the implementation of the last paragraphs of UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which demands the subsequent disarmament of the country's militias? There's no doubt that a mood of depression and distress has come over Hizballah of late and has colored all Nasrallah's recent speeches and declarations, including the explicit threats he broadcast during the recent election campaign against anyone who dared demand that he disarm. Only outside intervention can set 1559 in motion again. And that will require Security Council reconfirmation of the resolution, a Western decision to delay dealing with Lebanon's requests for an improved economic package, and above all, a U.S.-EU focus on Iran and Syria. There are already signs that pressure on Bashar al-Asad could force him to stop the weapons transfers from Iran via Syria to Hizballah.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: