Could a peaceful and stable future for Lebanon be hammered out in the conference rooms of Doha's Sheraton? Coming off a Thursday deal brokered by the Arab League, both Fuad Saniora's government and the Hezbollah opposition agreed to "remove the roadblocks that have paralysed air traffic and shut major highways, and ... stop using language that incited violence." As quoted by The Australian, Hezbollah's second-in-command, Naim Qassem, said, "We want a political settlement that will lead in the end to there being no victor and no vanquished."

Things now have moved directly into the Qatar talks. More:

"Al Jazeera's Rula Amin reported that there was a lot of hope that the talks would yield positive results, though it would be difficult to make the different factions agree.

'People have a lot of hope that it will work. However, they know that the issues are real. The political factions that are here have different interests, different concerns and have different visions for Lebanon. So it is not an easy job to bring them all together and to get them agree in a short time as well,' Amin said.

'Only a week ago, these leaders were talking to each other through the guns and there were bloody clashes between their supporters on the streets. However, there seems to be a will, not only among the Lebanese factions but also from the regional Arab countries and Iran, that this crisis has to be contained and an end to the violence has to be put.'

...Parliament in Beirut is scheduled to convene on June 10 for its 20th attempt to elect a president."