Link: Lebanon Braces for Failure of Talks - TIME.
Almost as soon as Lebanon's leaders boarded planes for Qatar on Friday for talks to resolve their most dangerous political showdown since the end of the civil war, the Lebanese took a collective sigh of relief. Not because anyone thinks that peace is about to break out, but because Lebanon is arguably safer as long as most of the top men are out of town. "Don't come back until you've reached an agreement," read signs carried by disabled civil society protesters rallying in wheelchairs along the airport road. ....
But they seem to be coming home with out a solution. And that is bad news as it leaves the stalemate hanging. But what could be expected in the absence of the real players. Once again the future of Lebanon hangs in the balance, dependant on players that really don't seem to care what their conflicts and choices do to the little people and the little nations.
For now, the barricades are gone and the beaches are open, and Lebanon could have its first normal tourist summer in years. But absent a broad regional settlement that includes a modus vivendi between Washington and Tehran, and peace between Israel and its neighbors, the Lebanese summer is unlikely to last.
USA, Iran, Syria, Israel - what are you doing about it?
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