Huge Victory for Iran in Lebanon

While the United States and the United Nations stand impotent and mute nearby, the terrorist group Hezbollah has taken control of approximately ⅔ of Lebanon's parliament, giving it de facto veto power over anything the country elects to do. The New York Sun's Benny Avni has the details:

In Doha, Qatar, Arab League foreign ministers announced an agreement yesterday to end Lebanon's 18-month political impasse, which has threatened to reignite the country's civil war. The pact includes no reference to the U.N. Security Council's demand that non-state militias disarm and ensures for Hezbollah and its allies a parliamentary majority. Israel and Syria's announcement of indirect peace talks through Turkish intermediaries, meanwhile, is sparking allegations that Prime Minister Olmert is seeking to deflect attention from a fund-raising scandal at home.

..."This is a dark day," a member of the Israeli Knesset, Yuval Steinitz of the Likud Party, told the Sun. "In the middle of an international effort to pressure Syria in order to salvage whatever remains of Lebanon, Israel is extending its hand to Assad," the president of Syria.

Mr. Steinitz said Syria, "an integral part of the axis of evil," does not really want the Golan, which Israel captured in the Six-Day War of 1967, "but Assad will take it if the international community allows him to also annex Lebanon."

This is a whole-scale capitulation to the terrorists by the Lebanese government. Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime Minister who failed to defeat Hezbollah during the skirmish in the summer of 2006 is crippled by corruption charges. These charges are very serious, and will probably, at the very least, lead to the resignation of Olmert in the middle of a very critical time for Israel.

I also can't believe the Arab League's role in the Lebanese surrender. They know that Hezbollah is a Persian Shia proxy for Iran - and that this move increases the possibility of mischievousness against Israel (oh, perhaps that's it...). I wouldn't be surprised to see Hezbollah attempt to draw Israel into another border war this summer - only this time the terrorist group is also the government.

And not a peep of any substance from the United Nations or the State Department. Shameful...