2024-03-22 05:24:00
Good morning from “An-Nahar”
Here are five notable news today, Friday, March 22, 2024:
1- An-Nahar newspaper: Meetings in Bkerke take their time: postulates of a national nature
Contrary to the impressions and information that preceded and preceded the meeting of representatives of Christian parties and movements in #Bkerke yesterday, the outcome of this meeting did not produce what was previously called the “#Bkerke Document,” which is being worked on and which seems to still need further scrutiny to come into form. It is comprehensive and has a national character when presented to various parties and partners in the country. This attempt is gaining implications at the Christian level or at the level of the comprehensive national dimension, as despite work not long ago to formulate a document that brings together the various Christian trends, it became clear that the presidential crisis and the dramatic developments taking place in the south necessitated accelerating the pace towards completing this attempt to constitute an impetus. Towards an end to the presidential crisis.
The meeting was chaired by Maronite Patriarch Mar Beshara Boutros Al-Rahi and was attended by Representative Fadi Karam, on behalf of the “Lebanese Forces,” on behalf of the “Free Patriotic Movement,” MP George Atallah, and advisor to the head of the “Facebook,” Antoine Constantine, and on behalf of the Phalange Party, advisor to the party’s president, Sassine Sassine, and on behalf of the “Movement.” “Al-Istiqlal,” Edouard Tayoun, in addition to Habib Charles Malek, represented by MP Nima Frem and Bishops Boulos Matar, Boulos Sayyah and Antoine Bou Negm. Noting that the only Christian party that was absent from the meeting in Bkerke was the “Marada Movement.”
2- Blinken will discuss the truce in Israel… and the Security Council votes on an American project for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza.
US Secretary of State Anthony #Blinken is heading to #Israel, today, to try to reach a #truce agreement in #Gaza, while the #UN Security Council is scheduled to vote on a draft American resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Strip.
While diplomats are busy, clashes continue in the Gaza Strip, including in and around the Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in the Strip. The army continues its operation, in which it said it killed “more than 140” Palestinian fighters in clashes with its soldiers in the compound and its surroundings since Monday.
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Thursday evening, “The operation in Al-Shifa Hospital continues. It is an operation during which we arrested the largest number of terrorists since the beginning of the war.”
3- Israel creates confusion to distract Hezbollah’s goals… Is aviation safety in Lebanon in danger?
Since the start of the war in Gaza and southern Lebanon, interference operations have begun on frequencies related to positioning applications, and GPS in particular, and it is likely that #Israel is behind it for military purposes. However, the consequences of this interference are not limited to the military field, but rather have extended to affect various institutions, including Rafiq Airport. Hariri International Airport, which uses GPS technology.
Aviation safety has not been affected so far by the disturbance, as no accident has been recorded, but question marks have begun to be raised about the causes of this disturbance, the levels it may reach, and the consequences it will entail, and whether the danger will double in the coming period, directly affecting the safety of air navigation and other sectors.
4- Poll: Young Americans are more critical of Israel compared to other citizens
An opinion poll showed, Thursday, that young Americans are more critical than other citizens of the war waged by Israel in #Gaza, amid general American public opinion being divided over President #Joe Biden’s handling of the crisis.
Despite the divisive debate over the war and intense debates in Washington about how it will affect Biden’s re-election chances, the Pew Research Center poll also found that many Americans are not following the matter closely or attaching great importance to it, and that 40% said they are not sure whether Biden was striking the right balance.
Among Americans between the ages of 18 and 29, 46% of those surveyed said that the way Israel is carrying out its response to the October 7 attack is unacceptable, while only 21% said it was acceptable, and the rest responded that they were not sure.
5- The Instagram application crashed for thousands in the United States and the world
The Down Detector website reported that the Instagram application, affiliated with #MetaPlatforms, crashed for thousands of users around the world on Thursday.
According to DownDetector data, more than five thousand users reported problems accessing the photo-sharing platform in the United States at the height of the outages.
The site tracks outages by collecting service status reports from several sources, including reports sent by users on its platform.
We have selected for you from Al-Nahar’s articles for today:
Many may be surprised and may not find it reassuring to invoke or borrow models from the past wartime in #Lebanon and project them onto the current peacetime crises, knowing that the current peaceful designation has become closer to burying heads in the sand, as “peace” has become an alleged state that contains all the factors of various explosions. However, we will not hesitate to express our reservation in the face of questions raised by the experience of the experimenter, such as issuing a document or a “Christian paper,” even if it is justified by those involved in it or who still continue to believe that “documents” and postulates, announcing the principles and gathering wills around them will be the restored means necessary to deter a disastrous coup approach that took the country by storm. What has become of the ugliest images of states and societies floundering with the ends of failed states.
Rosanna Boumonsef wrote: The big war in Lebanon has strong possibilities
Unless an actual truce is achieved in Gaza lasting for six weeks, as is currently being done, so that its effects spread to southern Lebanon and American mediation is initiated in the matter, diplomatic fears of a major war in Lebanon will continue to remain strong, even if there is a noticeable decline in military operations between #Israel. #Hezbollah has been on the southern border since the beginning of the month of Ramadan. These fears are no longer linked, as in previous months, to some error in estimation or calculation that could lead to war, as was widely believed when it was based on Iran’s unwillingness to have an expanded war or the desire of the #United States for that not to happen, and pressure in this direction, or even an assignment. President Joe Biden and his energy advisor, Amos Hockstein, are making an effort in this direction. Rather, these fears are due to the fact that a major war, which cannot be ruled out, will be the result of specific calculations starting with the fact that Israel wants the party to retreat a few kilometers back and for the settlers to return to their villages on the northern border, whether through a diplomatic solution or otherwise, that is, through military action that forces Lebanon is on this, according to what Israeli officials have announced more than once, and it does not actually end, as these Israeli positions find real resonance in the diplomatic corridors and are taken very seriously. This does not prevent the Israeli or Lebanese parties, or Hezbollah in particular, even though they continue to publicly confirm that they will not discuss any matter related to the truce in the south before the end of the war in Gaza, each of them shows willingness to discuss a diplomatic and political solution to the explosive situation on the border.
Radwan Aqeel wrote: Announcing Safa’s Emirati visit removes its secrecy… Its success depends on time and the progress of communications traffic.
The statement confirms what is certain, and denies that the visit is secret. Upon his return yesterday, more than one media machine moved from within the party to mourn any serious initiative or any potential agreement that many had been waiting for, especially in light of what was reported about Emirati dissatisfaction with the leaking of the news from Safa himself.
What is certain is that there are no taboos or prohibitions in the world of intelligence and the behind-the-scenes relations between countries and party forces. There are no hostilities or open friendships forever.
These words came out today after the uproar that occupied the media, represented by the visit of Hezbollah security official Wafiq Safa to Abu Dhabi, which was entitled to end the file of Lebanese detainees there. Many people stopped at the party’s rush to address this issue months ago, from a humanitarian standpoint, at a time when all Lebanese forces from all walks of life have been keen, for many decades, to establish relations with the Gulf countries. The party to the “Free Patriotic Movement” may be the first of the two Lebanese parties that do not have contacts with the Gulf, with the distinction of Qatar, which has channels with various Lebanese parties, and whose influence increased even more after the “Doha Agreement.”
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