Cease Quote by William Safire

Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

— Yitzhak Rabin

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that…

— Bashar al-Assad

Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.

— Richard Engel

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

— Walid Jumblatt

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

— Bashar al-Assad

You can't have a democracy with an armed political party willing to bomb its neighbor without the consent of its government or, you know,…

— George W. Bush

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

— Walid Jumblatt

The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time.

— Elliott Abrams

“In the summer of 1982, while Israeli armored tanks and gunships imposed a siege of another age on rampartless Beirut, cutting off the water…

— Rabih Alameddine

The question is: Shouldn't Hezbollah disarm? And ultimately they should. And it's necessary for the Lebanese government to succeed.

— George W. Bush

Syria is a signature to the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which bans the use of chemical warfare. Syria has violated that international norm. For…

— Ivo Daalder

Things have to be straightened out to keep Lebanon away from regional conflicts.

— Saad Hariri