“He [PM Saad Hariri] has already brought his “price” down by exonerating Syria … He has also exonerated Hizbullah’s leadership from any connection with the crime … All that’s left is for him to join his opponents in claiming that the STL [Special Tribunal for Lebanon] was infiltrated by Israel and that his father was the victim of a Zionist plot,” writes Qifa Nabki about the the Syrian-Saudi negotiations over the fate of the STL.