{"id":2961,"date":"2008-02-29T18:01:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2008-02-29T18:01:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T00:01:28","slug":"berri-sees-american-hand-in-failure-of-arab-mediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Berri sees American hand in failure of Arab mediation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daily Star staff<br \/>\nSaturday, March 01, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri accused the United States on Friday of being against the recent Arab initiative to end Lebanon&#8217;s ongoing crisis. Speaking in an interview broadcast by ANB satellite television late Friday, Berri quoted a senior French official as having told Lebanon&#8217;s ambassador to Paris that the US was not in favor of implementing the Arab initiative, which calls for the election of a president, the formation of a unity government and agreement on a new electoral law.<\/p>\n<p>Berri also accused the US of deploying the USS Cole and other warships to the Eastern Mediterranean to support and cover up Israel&#8217;s deadly attacks in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=1&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=89441\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Star staff Saturday, March 01, 2008 BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri accused the United States on Friday of being against the recent Arab initiative to end Lebanon&#8217;s ongoing crisis. Speaking in an interview broadcast by ANB satellite television late Friday, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-LL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}