PREFER DIALOGUE OVER WARS: SAAD HARIRI TELLS ISRAEL

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri urged Israel on April 8 to move ahead toward finding a political solution with the Palestinians by privileging dialogue over little wars. “Israel must move ahead because we need to have a credible process that the Arab world can believe in,” Hariri said in Madrid at a joint news conference with his Spanish counterpart Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. He accused Israel of trying to create little wars here and there to hold up the peace process. “The Israelis have to understand that weapons and destruction only incite hate and violence,” he said. “Israel has to be told that ‘you can start all the wars you want in the Middle East but in the end there can only be a political solution’,” Hariri added.