LEBANESE PM VOWS UNITED LEBANON AGAINST ISRAELI THREATS

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri voices concern about escalating Israeli threats but insists that Tel Aviv will be confronted by a united Lebanon if a war breaks out.

• "We hear a lot of Israeli threats day in and day out, and not only threats," Hariri told the BBC on Wednesday.
• "We see what's happening on the ground and in our airspace and what's happening all the time during the past two months — every day we have Israeli planes entering Lebanese airspace," Hariri added.
• The Lebanese leader noted that such moves by Israel were on the rise and warned, "This is something that is really dangerous."
• The remarks come after repeated threats from Israeli officials in recent weeks of a full-fledged war against Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement, and amid Tel Aviv's war of words with the Damascus Government.
• Hariri said Israel counts on Lebanon's confessionally-divided politics and the assumption that the Lebanese could not unite in case of a foreign attack.
• "I think they're betting that there might be some division in Lebanon, if there is a war against us…Well, there won't be a division in Lebanon."
• "We will stand against Israel. We will stand with our own people," he vowed.

Source: Press TV