Position of Lebanon in the 2006 Lebanon War had made comments on television saying that Israel should consider a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. On 13 July, a prominent Lebanese Druze member of parliament, Walid Jumblatt, criticized Hezbollah in an interview with the French daily "Le Figaro": "Hezbollah played a very dangerous game by kidnapping these two soldiers. ... Israel has withdrawn from Lebanon. These kidnappings took place outside our country's borders. Hezbollah is raising the stakes, with the support of Iran and Syria, which in the past year has become a satellite state of Tehran. … Hezbollah will have to explain itself to the Lebanese. ... [We need
The Lebanon Patriot it was owned and edited by Mary V. Proctor Wilson. The paper was last issued in December 1936 when it merged with "The Western Star", another weekly in Lebanon. The combined paper was published as "The Western Star and Lebanon Patriot" from January 7, 1937, to June 30, 1938. This article was compiled from the catalog records of the newspaper in the OCLC database with information from the "History of Warren County, Ohio" (Chicago, Illinois: W.H. Beers, 1883) and "The Centennial Atlas and History of Warren County, Ohio" (Lebanon, Ohio: The Centennial Atlas Association, 1903). The Lebanon Patriot The Lebanon