Arabs will back Lebanon if Israel attacks

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Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Thursday that Arab countries would stand by Lebanon if it were attacked by Israel, adding that the situation between the two countries is tense.

“If a new attack or aggression is in the process of being prepared, they [Israel] will not get away with it easily,” Moussa said after meeting with Foreign Minister Ali Shami. “We learned the lessons of 2006, and the Arab position is to stand by Lebanon.”

Moussa did not elaborate on what he meant by the lessons of 2006 or what he meant by the assurance of support.

Israel launched a devastating war on Lebanon in July 2006 after the Lebanese Hizbullah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.

The war killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mainly civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers.

It also devastated much of the infrastructure in southern Lebanon, just across the border and a Hizbullah stronghold.

Moussa, who was wrapping up a two-day visit to Beirut, was speaking amid growing fears in Lebanon that Israel might again attack the country.

“There are not just threats, but thousands of violations of the border zone and of south Lebanon, which demonstrate that the situation is complex and tense,” Moussa said.

He did not elaborate, but Israel warplanes frequently invade Lebanese airspace in violation of Resolution 1701, which ended the summer 2006 war.

Following talks with President Michel Sleiman on Thursday, Moussa said that Lebanon would participate in the Arab League summit scheduled to be held in Libya in March but added that it was up to Lebanese leaders to decide on the size and nature of the representing delegation. More

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