Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Tuesday. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.

Al-Liwaa: Tuesday appointments limited to oil … Israel for direct negotiations on maritime border
Jumblatt: Rhetoric on weapons result of sectarian tension
Bellemare in New York and indictments in connected crimes before year end

If the ceremony hosted by Hezbollah to commemorate the victory of the [2006] July war and the stances by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will be monitored and rejected by the March 14 [coalition], a conference in support of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) would be a milestone in the work of the court in light of funding or financial obligations to the STL or the arrest of suspects in line with the arrest warrants [thought to have been issued against four Hezbollah members] prompting Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare to be in New York close to U.N. officials.

In this regard, STL official spokesman Martin Youssef said the 30-day deadline given by the court for the arrest of the four suspects ends on Aug. 11, given that the STL considers the ultimatum as 30 working days.
Youssef said after Aug. 11 and if the Lebanese government failed to arrest the suspects, it is up to Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen to announce the indictment in full and publish it in the Lebanese media, or keep some parts or sections of it secret, saying that the tribunal's work is “purely judicial” and that the court expects the full cooperation of the Lebanese government.

As for Nasrallah’s televised speech to be delivered at 8:30 p.m. local time Tuesday, it is expected that he will reiterate the party’s position on the STL and stress the resistance’s role in liberation and the need to hold on to weapons to deter Israeli attacks and liberate the remaining occupied territories.

Apart from the maritime border and the Israeli position in this regard, Hezbollah's weapons remained a hot controversial issue, particularly between the Future Movement and Hezbollah with Nasrallah affirming his obligations to dialogue without discussing arms while the Future Movement, along with its allies in the March 14 alliance, insists that the issue of weapons should be the sole topic up for discussion in the framework of a defense strategy for Lebanon as well as conditioning the implementation of decisions made during previous rounds of national dialogue in 2006.
In this respect, the head of the National Struggle Front MP Walid Jumblatt told Al-Liwaa that pressing ahead with a battle for arms through the  media and political bickering was a “battle with no horizon and will not lead to any results desired by campaigners.”
“The only certain outcome of this battle is more Sunni-Shiite tension and the more likely each side will hang on to its positions,” Jumblatt added.
 
Al-Akhbar: Israeli general: No hope in victory but to destroy Lebanon

Pending what Nasrallah is going to say this evening at the dignity and victory ceremony, stances Monday varied between concerns in Israel over the outcome of any future war in the wake of Hezbollah’s growing capabilities and the ongoing focus on weapons in the interior.
While citing the calm in Lebanon regarding developments in Syria and Lebanon and not to the July war, the head of Israel’s former National Security Council head Gen. Giora Eiland said the Jewish state followed a “real strategic policy” in terms of the option to initiate war, adding that Israel would only engage in war or attack if faced with a strategic threat to existence such as attacking the nuclear reactor in Iraq.
In a July 2011 interview with the Israeli newspaper Haartez, Eiland said he did not change his view that the July 2006 war was a failure in terms of setting goals.

He said threats and war should be against the Lebanese state because no one wants the destruction of Lebanon or Syria or Iran. Eiland said that the core issue was the ability of deterrence before war erupts, in addition to the need to achieve victory quickly by saying that the Lebanese state bears responsibility for friring from its territory. He believed this saying was more true today “after Hezbollah’s hold over the Lebanese government became stronger. "
He concluded by saying that he believes Israel will only defeat Hezbollah in the next war if it targeted Lebanon’s infrastructure as well as the Lebanese Army.

Al-Mustaqbal: Indictments to be publilshed on Aug. 11 if government failed to arrest suspects
Bristol meet in support of STL and justice

In a move that would constitute one of the opposition steps in its open battle with the government and the March 8 coalition, March 14 will hold a conference at the Bristol hotel Tuesday under the slogan "justice for stability."
The conference will send out messages to the U.N. Secretary-General as well as Justice Minister Shakik Qortbawi and State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza.

Al-Mustaqbal has learned that among the participants at the Bristol conference are legal, judicial, human rights and academic figures who are not affiliated to the March 14 coalition and that their attendance is a message that the STL does not only concern March 14 and that justice itself is not for one group.
Among the speakers are former bar association heads - one from Beirut and the other from Tripoli.

Deputy Lebanese Forces chief MP George Adwan told Al-Musatqbal that the conference was designed to keep up with the work of the STL.
“It is unreasonable for the whole world to be interested in truth and justice, and jurists [in Lebanon] do not move,” Adwan said, adding that the conference would “focus on that truth and justice are the way to stability, in the sense that there is no impunity anymore because once the criminal  knows that no crime will go unpunished, this will lead to stability and non-recurrence of assassinations."
In parallel, high-ranking March 14 sources told Al-Mustaqbal that "the objective of the conference is to underline to those who are targeting the court, namely Hezbollah, that the STL will not succumb to blackmail.”

As-Safir: Sleiman tests pulse of dialogue participants
U.S. military delegation in Beirut: strong partnership with Lebanese Army

A Standstill prevailed over political activity while a visit by Lt. Gen. Vincent Brooks, commanding general of U.S. Army Central Command, and his meeting with Army commander Gen. Jean Kahwaji “to discuss ongoing cooperation between the armies of Lebanon and the U.S. and bilateral security cooperation” according to U.S. Embassy in Beirut, drew attention less than a week after a U.S. House panel unveiled a bill that would block U.S. aid to Lebanon [unless Washington reassures Congress that they are cooperating in the battling of terrorism.]

Meanwhile, sources close to the president said President Michel Sleiman began consultations to test the pulse of the main political parties about the best formula for the resumption of dialogue.
In this regard, Sleiman met with the head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad as well as a delegation from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.