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Wreaths are placed at the site damaged by yesterday's clashes between Israeli forces and the Lebanese army, in Adaisseh village, southern Lebanon, August 4, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Sharif Karim
BEIRUT |
Sat Aug 7, 2010 7:16am EDT
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon said Saturday it was committed to building up its armed forces after complaints by Israel about Western assistance to the military following a deadly border clash between the two countries.
Two Lebanese soldiers, a Lebanese journalist and a senior Israeli officer were killed in a rare cross-border skirmish on Tuesday, the worst such violence since a 2006 war between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas.
The clash -- in which Lebanon and Israel gave different accounts of what happened -- raised fears of wider conflict. Both countries have since worked to calm tension at the border.
Speaking in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh where the clash occurred, President Michel Suleiman said the cabinet would meet to ratify a three- or five-year plan to arm the military "so that it can protect the nation's dignity."
"The government will put forth a plan to arm the army regardless of the position of some countries," Suleiman was quoted as saying by the National News Agency. He did not say when the plan would be approved.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he had spoken to France and the United States about the Jewish state's worries.
"We think it is a mistake to arm the Lebanese army with weapons, with advanced systems," Barak said in an interview with Israel Radio earlier this week.
"Because these things are liable to be -- we used to describe the danger that these things would end up in Hezbollah hands, but before our eyes something more troubling is happening, and they are being used directly by the Lebanese army against us."
Asked whether Paris or Washington had paid attention to Israel's complaint, Barak said: "Not really. Not really.
Hezbollah did not take part in the clash, although its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said his powerful Shi'ite guerrillas would intervene if Israel attacked the army again.
By Israel's account of Tuesday's events, a Lebanese army sniper hit two Israeli officers as they watched a tree-pruning operation on the security fence below the U.N. "Blue Line." The Lebanese army said it first fired warning shots, then Israelis fired at their soldiers. Israeli artillery and tank fire followed.
The United States has provided more than $720 million in assistance to the Lebanese army since 2006, according to the U.S. embassy website.
In Washington, asked whether the United States was confident the Lebanese army was not being "manipulated by any particular political group," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said:
"We are, as we've said many times, we're in support of the civilian government in Lebanon," he said according to a transcript of an August 5 daily press briefing.
"And we think improving the capability and performance of the Lebanese government, both across the government, but including in the security sector, contributes to stability in the region and is in our interest."
(Reporting by Yara Bayoumy; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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Aug 07, 2010 8:20am EDT
Even the UN (traditionally anti-Israel) says that Lebanon attacked without provocation.
The fact that journalists were on the scene tends to back up the fact that this was the first attempt to deflect attention to the Hariri murder investigation and Iran by starting a war.
Eric.Klein
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Aug 07, 2010 10:15am EDT
Until the fundamental issue is resolved the conflicts in the region will continue indefinitely.
The idea that Muslim land can be taken from them and given to the Jews on the insistence of the US and its lesser partners after the second World war cannot/will not endure.
The Palestinian Jews can never obtain the goal of legitimacy they are so frantically seeking without the satisfactory resolution of the above.
ehross
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Aug 07, 2010 10:22am EDT
America should stop supporting and arming Israel.. and support the gentiles instead.
Israel all your murdering of women and children, thievery of land, terrorism, piracy, kidnapping… you are a truly disgusting entity. You’ve spewed so many lies, that I believe Lebanon.. the UN is afraid of America & wish not to go against them. just like the UN lied about the murders of our military on the USS Liberty.
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