Speaker Nabih Berri encouraged a military and a political strike against Hizbullah during the 2006 war so that the Israeli aggression against Lebanon doesn’t last long and so that the operation doesn’t have any repercussions, revealed a leaked U.S. Embassy cable published in al-Mustaqbal newspaper on Monday.

The WikiLeaks cable dated August 18, 2006, reported about a meeting between the speaker and then U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman during which Berri described Syrian President Bashar Assad’s speech on Aug. 15, 2006 as “stupid and unreasonable… because people forgot everything related to Israel.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has said he made the “final clarification” to Hizbullah and Amal movement that his remarks on an electricity project have no political motives.

In remarks to As Safir daily published Monday, Jumblat said that a meeting held at the residence of General Security Department chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim the day before was “excellent.”

A meeting held between officials from the Progressive Socialist Party, Hizbullah and Amal movement on Sunday night failed to reach agreement on how to fund a $1.2 billion project to generate 700 Megawatts of electricity, involved sources said.

The sources told As Safir daily that the officials agreed on a roadmap on the role that the cabinet would play in the implementation of the project and the formation of an electricity regulatory authority but failed to decide on how to fund the plan because the government doesn’t have the capacity to cover all its expenses.

Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Monday against widening the dispute over the electricity project, stressing that a breakthrough must be achieved to solve this vital issue that concerns all the Lebanese, As Safir newspaper reported.

“It should be an issue that unites (all the Lebanese) not divides them,” Berri told his visitors.

A delegation from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon held talks with Premier Najib Miqati at the Grand Serail on Monday, media reports said.

MTV said the delegation most probably discussed with Miqati the funding of the court. However, there was no information about the delegation or the nature of the meeting.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi noted Sunday that his visit to France, where he arrived Saturday, will allow him to “meet with the top officials of the French administration, in order to analyze together Lebanon’s problems and the changes currently affecting the geopolitical structures of some Middle Eastern nations.”

“These changes are still confusing and preoccupying us, especially that the outcome is still unknown,” al-Rahi said in a sermon at the Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Paris.

The head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad accused on Sunday the opposition of seeking to create unrest in Lebanon through executing a foreign agenda in Lebanon.

He said: “The opposition is still delusional in thinking that it can strip the Resistance of its arms.”

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel stressed on Sunday that the security situation in Lebanon is “very good”, saying that the real danger lies in the divisions among the people.

He told Voice of Lebanon radio: “The Lebanese should be persuaded that Lebanon is passing through a blissful phase, but politics is affecting the security situation.”

Hizbullah and Iran will not go out of their way in defending the Syrian regime given the international pressure it is being subject to and the likelihood that it will soon be overthrown, diplomatic sources told the daily An Nahar in remarks published on Sunday.

They added that the international pressure on Syria to halt its crackdown against anti-regime protests is also weighing on its allies in Lebanon, especially Hizbullah.

Twelve people were wounded on Friday when clashes broke out between supporters of the Deir al-Qamar and the Tawheed basketball teams, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

Knives and guns were used in the clash that first started as a fistfight between the two sides.