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Lebanon recalled their ambassador to the US on Wednesday night for "expressing his support for Hizbullah in the US media."
Carl gives us some more background:
It seems that Abboud was interviewed by CNN last night, and said exactly what Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora did not want him to say:
"We did not declare war. It was declared against us when our country was occupied by the Israelis, with prisoners taken from Lebanon into Israel, and with Palestinian prisoners pushed into Lebanon's territory. We did not occupy Israel and we did not declare war on it.
"At this stage any solution must be negotiations on Israel's withdrawal from the occupied Lebanese territories and a release of the Lebanese prisoners. We have our prisoners. They have prisoners. An exchange would be appropriate, and I think it will resolve the problem.
Hezbullah's Hassan Nasrallah could not have done a better job of stating his own position than Abboud did.
So, was Abboud (the ex-ambassador) speaking his own personal beliefs (in his capacity of official representative of the Lebanese government to Israel's most powerful ally) that were the opposite of his government's position? Or did Abboud just mess up by letting the world know exactly whose Lebanon is supporting in this big mess?
