Prime Minister Saad Hariri's political survival depends on Hizbullah's consent, something more important to him than his family honor, Israeli daily Haaretz said Friday.
"I was personally informed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri before his visit to Washington (in May) that the tribunal will accuse some undisciplined members" of Hizbullah, Nasrallah said in a press conference on Thursday.
Hariri may have concluded that if he supports the international tribunal's rulings in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination, "he will share his father's fate - or, alternatively, that doing so could risk renewed civil war between Hizbullah and his own March 14" alliance, Haaretz said.
"In such a face-off, Hizbullah would certainly win. Thus Hariri hopes to resolve the problem by distinguishing between the operatives and the organization," the newspaper added.
Nasrallah said Hariri had assured him he would publicly avow that it was undisciplined members of Hizbullah, and not the party itself, who were implicated in the murder.
However, according to Haaretz "Hizbullah is well known for its rigid hierarchy, iron discipline and involvement of senior officials in all decisions at the field level. That makes it highly unlikely that Hizbullah operatives would have been involved in such an incident without the senior leadership's knowledge."
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