{"id":44607,"date":"2021-02-04T01:28:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44607"},"modified":"2021-02-04T01:28:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:28:29","slug":"reports-of-an-israeli-aggression-south-of-syrias-quneitra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44607","title":{"rendered":"Reports of an \u2018Israeli aggression\u2019 south of Syria\u2019s Quneitra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68\">\n<p>\nCAIRO\/BEIRUT: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi launched an effort on Wednesday to end the political stalemate that has left Lebanon without a government for six months.<\/p>\n<p>\nEl-Sisi held talks in Cairo with Saad Hariri, who was named prime minister last year after the previous administration quit following the Beirut port explosion. Hariri has been unable to appoint a cabinet because of squabbling over the distribution of ministerial portfolios among Lebanon\u2019s sectarian factions.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIn order to pull Lebanon out from its crisis, all political leaders must put the national interest first, settle their disputes and form an independent government,\u201d El-Sisi said.<\/p>\n<p>\nHis spokesman Bassam Radi added: \u201cPresident El-Sisi \u2026 wishes Hariri to form a new government that meets the aspirations of the Lebanese people. Egypt is ready to provide support and aid for Lebanon to overcome the crises, especially those created by the Beirut blast and the coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHariri will now visit Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, who has proposed a non-sectarian Lebanese government of experts and technocrats to launch \u00a0political and economic reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\nFormer MP Mustafa Allouch, a member of the Future Movement led by Hariri, told Arab News attempts to form a government were being blocked by Gebran Bassil, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement. \u201cThere is an explicit insistence \u2026 on including members of the FPM in the new government, and a total rejection of independents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said Hariri \u201cdoes not mind making concessions if this would lead to an effective government, but the government Bassil has in mind will be worse than all the ones before.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO\/BEIRUT: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi launched an effort on Wednesday to end the political stalemate that has left Lebanon without a government for six months. El-Sisi held talks in Cairo with Saad Hariri, who was named prime minister last year after the previous administration quit following the Beirut port explosion. Hariri has been unable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}