Lebanon lawmakers approve Hezbollah-backed government

Good news! Now it is better for israel to keep silent.

Because Isreal could snap their fingers, and bye bye to lebenon. Meanwhile Lebenon and Hez deperately want to destroy Isreal and kill everyone inside of it. But Isreal uses disproportionate force??? How ironic.

I always thought that Hezbollah was a Palestinian terrorist organisation, but now it seems that it is the government of Lebanon, so the Palestinians have their own country (1). I also thought the population of Jordan was 80% Palestinian, so they have their own country (2). Now they are pushing for a country on the West Bank (3). How many countries do they need? Perhaps they could have an extra small one in Gaza (4)!!!

Israel is trying to display Hezbollah as a super powerful organization just to legalize their future chance of invading Lebanon .

There are more than six days between March 14 and March 8. The two 'movements' are bitterly divided over how to respond to the Lebanon Special Tribunal. The vote of confidence in Prime Minister Najib Mikati's cabinet is much more an effort to maintain balance than to affirm Hisbollah. p.s. Four Israeli warplanes invaded Lebanese airspace yesterday.

stop invading, occupying, annexing, causing humanitarian crisis, stop refusing peace and law and resolutions!

as a lebanese american ,I think the the whole western countries and united nation members should cease dealing with the lebanese goverment ,because this is a goverment ,was made by the power of a terrorist group guns,and insist on surrendering the the killers of the prime minister harriri,,,it is time for lebanon and israel to sign a peace treaty

There is a nuance here. As far as I know, this government is backed by the Hezbollah, and not run by it.

Good. You are taking more and more responsibility for the country. I do not care how many missiles you have aimed at Israel as long as you do not fire them. Israel will keep the peace as long as you will.

Let them go to hell !

Lebanon +Arabs summer uprising and so own -there coming to be burden on the western county 'with our blood and money -'what a waste?? ++no use with them What so ever ;thy are violent society ;i think it is about time that the western country Disassociate with them 'thy are becoming more and extremist "" look around you ' there this is there own problems && should be solve between them self P>s we running out of money what ever you do with them .in the end thy will stub you in the BACK +perhaps we should all so have A Separate U N TOO -very sad all those Killing between them self

No more hiding behind innocent women and children. The more Hezbolla is legitimized, the more legitimate the response to their aggression. The next war that they start will be their final undoing.

How about we talk to Hezbollah instead fear mongering . Maybe Israel need to address the problem instead of brushing it under the rug. And the US need to stop playing favorites and stop selling bombs to a country that keeps attacking it's neighbors

And deal and talk with them to get to them to be less extreme

Lebanon is the world's ultimate example of democracy. They have many disparate factions and yet they manage to form governments and to mostly get along and move forward. This is a miracle even if it is not done well. Israel has a number of parties, but, since 90% of Israelis are right wing, there is effectively only one party. The left can never win and the "center" is made up of Likudniks. America has only two serious parties that are more alike than not. Lebanon has at least four major factions making up the political scene. One thing that every Lebanese person knows, no matter how they feel about Hizbollah, Hizbollah did end the Israeli occupation. Hizbollah gave the Lebanese nation back to the Lebanese people. This is no small thing.

This is a classic case of Good Vs. Evil In reality, only the ignorant and blind would think Hezbollah and its allies are the evil ones.

"Walid Jumblatt, the Druse politician whose votes proved crucial in electing Mr. Miqati, said Mr. Hariri had failed 'to see the realities on the ground'." - NYTimes// The fall of Lebanon into the hands of Hizballah was not foreordained at all. Saad Hariri is the chief Sunni politician in Lebanon, in a country where chiefs are followed by the masses of their sect. So how did he lose the prime-ministership, and how did the US lose while the Syria-Iran axis won? As Walid Jumblatt was saying, there is a reality on the ground. That reality is that Hizballah is a strong militia, being pushed to the corner by the UN investigation of Papa Hariri's assassination and determined to prevent a trial where it might be found guilty. One option for Hizballah was to try and take over Lebanon by force, which would have sparked a new civil war. The Druze had nothing to gain from such a civil war. They opted to prevent it. Indeed, Saad Hariri himself understood the situation and at some point agreed to pull Lebanon out of the international court (which might have put an end to it). And then came the US on a white horse, bearing the gift of "justice for all". Obama and Hillary advised Hariri to stick with "justice". (In fact, they astonishingly continued with that line even AFTER the Hariri government fell.) Hariri complied, so the Druze had to bring him down in order to prevent the catastrophe that the US was engineeing. The rest is history. Basic lesson for all doctors and diplomats: If the cure has side effects that are worse than the disease, don't use it. So trivial for doctors, so hard for lawyers who specialize in justice. The truly sad thing is that the consequences were so obvious from the start.

Hezbollah is dead long live the government and people of Lebanon. Any trouble and there is no longer any fudging of responsibility. Congratulations our neighbours on ironing out any split and confusion in decision making