Religious scholar Sheikh Ali al-Khatib praised Speaker Berri’s positions and questioned the authorities’ insistence on negotiations despite their failure: We will be the safety valve against strife

Vice President of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council, Religious scholar Sheikh Ali al-Khatib, questioned in his Friday sermon at the Council’s headquarters “the authorities’ insistence on continuing negotiations with the Israeli enemy despite the repeated failure in all the rounds that have taken place. He condemned the “intimidation and scare-mongering tactics that…