Aid to Lebanon should be frozen

AP/NY Times:

A congressman said Sunday he would ask the U.S. administration to freeze the $230 million aid package to Lebanon proposed by President Bush until the Lebanese government takes control of its borders with Syria and prevents arms smuggling to Hezbollah guerrillas.

Rep. Tom Lantos, the top Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, spoke after meeting with senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Lantos said he told Olmert the U.S. aid package to Lebanon was important, ''but that this package should be withheld until the Lebanese government displays responsibility.''

''A porous Syrian-Lebanon border will only invite the repetition of Hezbollah attacks in the future. Hezbollah must not be allowed to rearm again,'' he said.

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Lantos is right. Lebanon, Syria and Hezballah have already shown bad faith on this issue. The UN resolution called for the disarmament of Hezballah and an embrago on future arms shiopments and Syria and Iran are trying desperately to restock the attrited weapons stocks of the Hezballah death cult.

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