BEIRUT - U.S. envoy George Mitchell said on Friday a Middle East peace agreement would not come at Lebanon's expense and praised this week's election as an "important milestone" for the country.
Mitchell, who has Lebanese roots, is on a tour that has taken him to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt and Jordan as part of U.S. President Barack Obama's Arab-Israeli peace push. He is due to travel to Syria later on Friday.
BEIRUT - Israel handed over to U.N. peacekeepers on Tuesday maps of where it dropped cluster bombs in Lebanon during the 2006 war with Hezbollah guerrillas, the UNIFIL peacekeeping force said.
The United Nations and the Lebanese government have repeatedly called on Israel to hand over the maps of where it dropped the munitions, most of which were fired in the last 72 hours of the 34-day war.
It's been nominated eight times, but Israel has never won a Best
Foreign Language Film Oscar the 67 times it's been awarded since 1947.
Lebanon has neither won nor been nominated. The two countries were set
to win their first two weeks ago with "Waltz With Bashir." Somehow,
"Departure," a Japanese "Six Feet Under," staged a coup and took the
award, though in my book "Waltz With Bashir" is still the winner, as
were Lebanon, Israel, and a shred of that thing so elusive in stories
out of the Middle East: truth.
