Syrian invasion of north Lebanon is understandable

I am not sure about the truth of Debka’s report that Syr­ian troops to invaded part of North­ern Lebanon, but what I know is there is a miss­ing link in this report which reported by Al-Akhbar yes­ter­day saying:

Hariri speed up the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion in North Lebanon, after receiv­ing infor­ma­tion from Euro­pean sources say­ing; with the grow­ing power of the extrem­ists Salafi groups in Tripoli, any Syr­ian inva­sion of the north will be “under­stand­able” by the west­ern countries.

It is no secret that this “Euro­pean accord” came from Sarkozy, and you can feel the improv­ing rela­tions between Syria and France in Al-Jazeera’s inter­view with Syr­ian for­eign min­is­ter Al-Mualam yes­ter­day where he quoted Sarkozy saying:

The United States should learn from the Euro­peans and the French pres­i­dent that Syr­ian geog­ra­phy and his­toric role put it main cor­ner of the solu­tion and sta­bil­ity in the region.

He also denied that the Sarkozy visit meant to medi­ate between the U.S. and Syria saying:

We don’t need a third party to medi­ate between Syria and the U.S. but we don’t deny the Amer­i­can role in the nego­ti­a­tions between Syria and Israel.

As for the Syria — Arabs rela­tions, Al-Hayat reported that there are no improve­ments yet but the Gulf-States lead­ers will be sur­prised with the out­come of the U.S. — Iran negotiations.