Describing the EU's position on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as "supine" and its failure to criticise the Israeli blockade of Gaza as "embarrassing", former American president Jimmy Carter said it should break from the US.

Lebanese political leaders are locked in negotiations in Qatar aimed at reaching a power-sharing deal to solve Lebanon's political crisis.

The Future movement used a security firm to assemble a private force, officials say. But the fighters were no match for the Shiite group Hezbollah.

JERUSALEM - With U.S. approval, Saudi Arabia in recent months provided weaponry to militias associated with anti-Syrian Lebanese opposition leaders to bolster them against the Hezbollah terror organization, informed security officials told WND.

Sixty Jordanian figures comprising heads of parties and syndicates, intellectuals and military veterans relayed a letter on Monday to Hezbollah General Secretary Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah in his capacity as the leader of the Arab Resistance,

"For a year, the main Lebanese political faction backed by the United States built a Sunni Muslim militia in Lebanon under the guise of private security companies", the Los Angeles Times quoted Lebanese security experts officials as saying.

Once again, questions have been raised about Israel's position in the body of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), headed by MP Walid Jumblatt. These questions are justified given the course of events and facts.

The Israeli daily Haaretz quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the decision by the unconstitutional government of Fouad Saniora on Hezbollah's communications network had been planned a long time ago.

Prominent American journalist and Director of the "Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace" institution Dr. Franklin Lamb labeled losers and winners in Lebanon in the wake of recent developments in the country.

Nakba, Arabic for (Catastrophe) A land without a people for a people without a land or a nation. A saying coined by Zionist intellectuals to justify their occupation of Palestine.