“political, moral and leadership suicide”

Tariq Alhomayed is advising P.M. Hariri to resign:

Either you contest the International Tribunal, merely so Hezbollah are acquitted, or they [Hezbollah] will continue to disrupt your work, paralyzing the government by calling for an investigation into false witnesses […] All that is happening today is blackmail, in order to damage the reputation of the Tribunal before it issues its indictments, and this is political, moral and leadership suicide, your Excellency.

As I’ve said before, the resignation of Mr. Hariri’s is the nuclear option. And as nuclear options go, it is far better to threaten (credibly) to use them than to actually use them. What Mr. Hariri needs to do is to issue a serious threat that he will resign and use that as a tactical tool to leverage his position.