Blitzer says that Lebanon has offered to the UN to put it's own troops on the border (if Israel withdraws from Lebanon land) and that Lebanon would patrol the area for it's own country and might accept UN Peace keepers in Support.
HEZBOLLAH SIGNED ON TO THIS. Lebanon Govt's postion is that allowing it's OWN troops to REPLACE Hezbollah on the border would allow the Gov't to comply with UN Res: 1559 by making Hezbollah NOT in CONTROL...Lebanon said that then the disarming of Hez. to it's own Troops would allow the country to comply and yet still have control over it's territory!
Elliot Cohen said...on Blitzer (CNN) that the only way anyone would accept that is by Iran and Syria accepting SANCTIONS for not SUPPLYING any more ARMS to Hezbollah.
The proposal sounded interesting and a great diplomatic COMPROMISE that would allow Lebanon to take back control of it's country and Hezbollah was onboard to support the Lebanese Troops if Israel would stop the Bombing and Remove it's troops!
This is the ONLY LINK I could find and it doesn't say what Blitzer announced on CNN around 4:00p.m. est here. This article from WaPo says Lebanon wants UN Peacekeepers and that's NOT WHAT BREAKING NEWS SAID?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/28/AR2006072800240_pf.htmlHezbollah Joins New Call for Cease-Fire
Plan Endorsed By Lebanon Differs From U.S. Approach
By Edward Cody and Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, July 29, 2006; A08
BEIRUT, July 28 -- As fighting raged on in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah joined the Lebanese government in a peace proposal calling for an immediate cease-fire with Israel followed swiftly by a prisoner exchange and reinforcement of U.N. troops along the embattled border, senior Lebanese officials said Friday.
The agreement for the first time put Hezbollah and the rest of the Lebanese government in a unified position on how to end the 17-day-old conflict. But its terms varied widely from ideas put forth by Israel and the United States, particularly its insistence on an immediate cease-fire.