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Apostate Lebanese believers in Christ are in for a very rough Ride!

Especially during the time referred to as the Tribulation Period!

January 17, 2011

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Revelation 17:12,13,16,17 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

[13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [16] And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Revelation 18:4-8 – And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. [5] For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. [6] Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. [7] How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. [8] Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

Begin Excerpt from WikiAnswers

It is estimated that the Christian population makes up about 39% of the total population in Lebanon,

The Maronites are the largest

of the Christian groups. They have had a long and continuous association with the Roman Catholic Church, but have their own patriarch, liturgy, and customs. Traditionally they had good relations with the Western world, especially France and the Vatican. They traditionally dominated the Lebanese government, and the President of Lebanon is always Maronite. Their influence in later years has diminished, due to their relative decrease in numbers, but also due to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, which generally benefited Shi’a and other Muslim communities, and was resisted by most Maronites. Today the Maronites are believed to compose nearly 25.2% of the population, scattered around the Lebanese countryside but with heavy concentrations on Mount Lebanon and in Beirut.

The second largest Christian group is the Greek Orthodox. The church exists in many parts of the Arab world and Greek Orthodox Christians have often been noted for pan-Arab or pan-Syrian leanings; it has had less dealings with Western countries than the Maronites. They are believed to constitute about 7.8% of the total population, not counting

the Palestinian Greek Orthodox community.

The remaining Christian churches are thought to constitute another 9% (350,000) of the population (Greek Catholics i.e. Melkites about 200,000, Armenian Apostolic, Armenian Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, Assyrians, Protestants) with no single group over 5% of the total population.

Christianity is very important in Lebanon and most of the 15 million immigrants are Christian. the President of Lebanese Republic must always be Christian Maronite and so must the Commander of the army. half of Lebanese mem bers of Parliament must

be Christian.

Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Special Report

Nasrallah on course for anti-West government backed by Assad

DEBKAfile Special Report

January 16, 2011, 10:06 PM (GMT+02:00)

In his first speech on the Lebanese crisis, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday night, Jan. 16: “The opposition will exercise its own national convictions and will not be intimidated by the world’s reaction.” He added: “The opposition” had decided unanimously not to name Saad Hariri, the pro-Western prime minister they toppled l ast week,

as next head of government, meaning that the Hizballah-led camp will build its own regime shunning Hariri.

Nasrallah and Hariri will certainly go head to head to decide which rules the country.

DEBKAfile’s sources note that Hizballah has the advantage of being the most powerful armed force in Lebanon. Added to Hariri’s disadvantages is the refusal of his potential outside supporters, whether the US, France, Israel or Saudi Arabia, to intervene on his behalf.

The Hizballah-led government’s first step will be to declare illegal the Special Lebanese Tribunal whose prosecutor Daniel Bellemare is due to submit his report to pre-trial judge Daniel Fransen within 48 hours. Nasrallah’s pretext will be that his findings and the indictments of his henchmen were composed in Tel Aviv – not at the STL’s seat in The Hague.

Ironically, on Sunday, Jan 16, the very day that Robert Ford took up his post as the first US ambassador to Damascus in six years, Syrian President Bashar Assad threw all his weight behind Hizballah’s drive to rid Lebanese politics of the Saad Hariri and so derail the Obama administrations policy objectives in Lebanon.

DEBKAfile reports: Assad has now dropped the pose of aloofness from the Lebanese crisis which he has struck since after Hizballah toppled the Hariri government last week. The Syrian ruler has now stepped in with both feet to block any western moves

to save the ousted prime minister turned caretaker – as attested to by a clip broadcast Saturday, Jan. 15, by Al-Jadeed TV, a station sponsored by Hizballah and Syrian intelligence.

Hariri was shown in Aug.

2006 meeting with the Special Tribunal’s officials investigating the assassination of his father Rafiq Hariri in 2005.

The five-year old video showed Syrian military intelligence defectors present at the meeting. One was identified as Col.

Muhammad Zuhair al-Siddiq, whose testimony the STL later dismissed as untrustworthy. (He disappeared after that in one of the Gulf emirates.

According to some sources he was abducted by Syrian intelligence, brought back to Syria and put to death.)

Also filmed there were a number of Lebanese intelligence officials, whom Damascus and Hizballah branded “false witnesses,” accusing them of distorting facts to incriminate Syria and Hizballah

in the crime. One member of this group was identified as Col. Wissman al-Hassan, former chief of Lebanon’s intelligence services.

The Al-Jadeed TV announcer informed the audience that the broadcast was the first in a series of video films shot secretly by Syrian military intelligence. They go to prove, he said, that Saad Hariri was present at a conspiracy to pin the blame for his father’s murder on Syria and Hizballah.

He promised the next airing Sunday would show the ousted Lebanese prime minister charging the Syrian President’s brother-in-law Gen. Asif Shawqat with responsibility for the assassination’ s planning and execution.

DEBKAfile: This clip could be seriously damaging to Hariri.

His enemies will claim he lied about having nothing to do with false witnesses. Just the image of him sitting with Siddiq could damage his credibility.Apart from damaging Hariri, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report the release of this clip, whose only possible source is Syrian intelligence, shows two things: One is that Assad is now solidly behind the all-out drive of Hassan Nasrallahto remove the pro-Western Hariri from Lebanese politics once and for all; the other is that both are scared stiff of the contents of the report the STL prosecutor Daniel is about to submit to the court. It will be up to Judge Fransen to decide when and in what form to publish it.

In another attempt to tarnish the ousted Lebanese prime minister, Damascus leaked a report accusing Hariri of two-timing Assad by sabotaging the Saud-Syrian formula for resolving the Lebanese crisis. In his first speech on the Lebanese crisis Sunday night, Jan. 17, Hassan Nasrallah pinned the blame on Israel and America. Together they presented Hariri as colluding with both powers to destabilize the country.

The international tribunal, he accused of “conspiring against the Resistance.”

Assad hopes to put Hariri finally on the spot by calling together in Damascus Monday, Jan.17, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Edrogan and the emir of Qatar, Sheikh A Thani – purportedly to confer on ways to ease the Lebanese crisis, but in reality, to back up actions by Syria and Hizballah to invalidate the international tribunal and its expected decision to indict Hizballah officials for the Hariri murder.

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Feeding 2 Million in the Negev during last 3 & 1/2 Years of Tribulation Period

January 15, 2011

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ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 9

February, 2001

In our last update we revealed the fantastic amount of water God has stored deep under the Negev. It is in the Negev wilderness that between 1.6 and 1.9 million Jews will live during the last 3 and ½ years of the Tribulation Period.

But what about food, could the Negev use this great surplus of water to produce enough food for this new population? The truth is this: Israel is well on the way to doing this today!

Once Israel was

able to tap into the billions of cubic feet of fossil waters under the Negev, she immediately began to put it to use in production of a variety of botanical products. It has caused the spread of hothouses, orchards, and fishponds from one end of the Negev to the other.

The Negev now grows tomatoes, olives, and melons along with other types of vegetation. Pipelines from the fossil water sources, laid to fish farms, have generated some 15 fish farms in the Negev.

Some farms have ponds up to 75 feet in length, which can contain up to 20,000 fish. The fish industry continues to grow and expand, as do all the Negev’s agricultural endeavors. Successful production of a crop of seedless, purple red grapes, will eventually lead to grape vines covering the barren Negev from Ramat Hanegev to Mitzpe Ramon.

This botanical development can only accelerate, and within three years there will be enough foodstuffs produced to sustain an initial influx of up to 1.9 million Jews for a few months. The utilization of a part of this population explosion will dramatically increase food production by the end of their first year, and it will be sufficient to feed all the Negev residents for the rest of their stay. However, there will be a period of insufficient food, but this same God, who provided the water and technology for developing the Negev, will also cover this need by the “they” in verse 6 of Revelation, chapter 12: “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that THEY should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” I was taught as a young man that the “they” were angels. I certainly do not preclude this possibility, because God has used angels in the past for such situations. However, I believe I can prove from scripture what seems more reasonable, and will cover this in our next prophecy update.

ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 10

March, 2001

In our last prophecy update we discussed how the usage of a vast underground water supply in the Negev was producing a large variety of foodstuffs across its surface. However, when one-third of the population of Israel is pushed into the Negev by the Antichrist in the middle of the Tribulation Period, the initial food supply and production will only be sufficient for a few months initially, and it will take a year to bring it to adequate levels for such a rise in numbers. So, for a few months, additional food will be provided by the “they” found in verse 6 of the 12th chapter of Revelation: “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that THEY should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” The answer, as to who the “they” represents, is to be found in the preceding verse 5, where the word “NATIONS” acts as the precedent to the word “THEY” in verse 6: “And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all NATIONS with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.” (Revelation 12:5). Remember, in the initial attack of the Antichrist from Syria, all the nations of the world are not involved. All the nations of the world do not become involved until some three years later at the final battle identified as Armageddon. So the “they” in verse 6 refers to nations from the free world. Such nations as the United States, England, Canada, and Australia, will airlift food, clothing, and shelters to Israel in the Negev during this critical period of shortages. The Antichrist, since he has previously overrun the fertile and industrial heartland of Israel, will seek to gain world approval of his actions by appearing, at this point, to be a merciful conqueror, and will not contest this airlifting of foodstuffs to the Negev. In fact, his aircraft will be under orders not to fire on any foreign aircraft for fear of getting involved in a war with the western powers. As I informed you in previous prophecy updates, the Antichrist will be well aware of the defenses in the Negev, and will have no desire to penetrate any further south than Beersheva.

But at the end of the Tribulation Period, he will send out a call to the European mainland, all the nations once under the Soviet Union, Russia, and all the countries of Asia and Africa, and many will come to this final great battle: “And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Revelation 16:16).

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Raising fish in the Desert

01/14/2011 00:09

By DAVID SHAMAH

With fewer fish in the sea with each passing year, Israel’s “Grow Fish Anywhere” has found a way to grow them absolutely anywhere.

“There’s plenty of fish in the sea,” the old saying goes – but that’s not as true as it once was. In fact, says Dotan Bar-Noy,

CEO of Israel’s GFA (Grow Fish Anywhere) Advanced Systems, there are fewer fish in the sea with each passing year. “Overfishing is a much bigger problem than people realize, and in a few years, many species of salt water fish are simply going to disappear if something isn’t done.”

Bar-Noy and 30 or so others – mostly engineers, marine biologists and other technical folk – have found a solution to the diminishing numbers of fish in the sea. Based on the work of Israeli scientist Dr. Yossi Tal and Hebrew University professor Jaap van Rijn – inventor of the system – GFA has developed an on-land environment where fish can be raised, without having to exchange water or treat it chemically.

“We call this a zero-discharge system,” Bar-Noy tells ISRAEL21c. “We use biological filters and specially developed bacteria to treat the water the fish are growing in, without wasting anything. The system can be set up to raise salt-water fish anywhere in the world – even in the desert, thousands of miles from the ocean,” he asserts.

Fish farms are nothing new.

They’ve been around for years, enabling growers to set up controlled environments that can ensure a specific yield of fish, allowing them to guarantee delivery without worrying about dwindling supplies in the ocean, pollution, inclement weather, and other factors that are hard to control.

Fish farm foibles

Still, while they enhance the conservation of fish in the sea, fish farms have problems of their own – mostly due to the need to circulate the water in the pools and tanks where the fish are raised. Most fish farms are located adjacent to a body of water, and their waste-laden water is channeled into the sea, and replaced with “fresh” sea water.

While fish raised in captivity don’t produce an increased amount of waste, at sea it would be dissipated over a much wider area. The fish waste, with its nitrogen and other elements concentrated in a relatively small area, renders the water that it’s dumped into uninhabitable for fish.

As the tanks are generally located near the shore, in relatively shallow water, the wastewater tends to linger there. With the movement of the currents, nearby jurisdictions are liable to find a considerable number of fish floating belly-up in their bays and harbors, having been poisoned by the high concentration of nitrogen and nutrients in the wastewater dumped from the tanks.

This problem is so serious that in some areas fish farms are banned, despite their being perhaps the only technologically feasible solution available to combat overfishing, says Bar-Noy. Alternative purification systems are based on electrical treatment systems which are expensive to install and run, and are not all that effective, he notes. “Even when they work, the electrical purification systems are too expensive, and fish produced with those systems will cost far more than fish from the sea.”

GFA is currently the only solution that eliminates the environmental problems associated with fish farming. Tanks are filled with water, then with fish – and added to the mix are microbes perfected by GFA to treat the nitrogen and organic waste byproducts of fish production, in the tank.

Water is only added to replace that which evaporates, and the fish can grow through their natural cycle and remain in the tank until they are ready for market. “It’s the most efficient fish growing system possible,” claims Bar-Noy, “There is no pollution, and there is no need to fish at sea. Just set up tanks with GFA technology anywhere in the world, and harvest the fish when you’re ready to go to market.”

Toward eliminating world hunger

Because the GFA system uses cheap and easy-to-produce bacteria to cleanse fish tanks, the costs for raising the fish are fully competitive with those for raising fish from the sea, or other farms, Bar-Noy points out. And tank-raised fish are uniformly tasty. “Fish from the sea are subject to the natural weather cycles of cold and heat, while farmed fish can be raised at a constant, ideal temperature. GFA fish have an even greater advantage, since the water they grow in is always fresh, making the fish taste better than fish from other sources.”

The system has already been set up in several locations in Israel, and the company runs a purification facility in upstate New York, which has been operating since 2009.

The facility, the largest using GFA technology, produced about 100 tons of fish last year – mostly salt-water fish like sea bream, bass, tilapia, and others.

GFA is currently working on the third generation of its purification system. While the company was formed in 2008, its technology was developed over a 20-year period. “While the ideas were there for awhile, the only viable purification techniques were based on electrical devices. It was only with the rise of biotechnology techniques that we were able to develop the bacteria that enable us to do the purification cheaply,” Bar-Noy explains.

The resulting system allows for high-capacity fish production – as much as 100 kg of fish per cubic meter of water (220 pounds of fish per 35 cubic feet) – along with the ability to grow fish in any environment.

Fish farms can be set up anywhere – including in large cities, where fish may be brought to market the same day they’re harvested, thus enabling growers to eliminate transportation time and costs.

After raising funds from several angels, GFA recently raised NIS 18 million from Dutch private equity fund Linnaeus Capital Partners.

The money will finance a number of projects, including expanding the New York facility and further refining the technology.

“As populations grow, more countries are looking to fish as sources of protein, but overfishing threatens to destroy that dream,” says Bar-Noy. “With our system, fish can be grown anywhere – even in the desert – with minimal environmental impact. This is about more than just growing fish,” he adds. “This could help feed millions.”

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Persian Iran shows all Arab Nations and the West it Controls Lebanon

It’s sending a sharp signal to Obama he has no Beirut leverage Left

By the Hizbullah Demonstration of its Control over the Parliament!

Iran Was Chosen by OPEC Members for 2011 Cartel Presidency

To increase odds for a Continuing Rise of Oil Prices into 2012!

I’m Confident Islamic Masses will Strike Israel before 2015!

Now, the Sands of the Middle East Cover U.S. Motivation

For its need for OPEC oil in Saudi and Iran Oil Policies!

January 14, 2010

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Revelation 17:12,13,17 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

[13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give

their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it

shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and

against his army.

[20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Begin Series of Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

January 13, 2011

Excerpt Number 1 – Institute for Contemporary Affairs

Iran Sends a Signal to Obama through Beirut

Shimon Shapira

The Hizbullah leadership is seeking to pre-empt the publication of the decision of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), which is expected to charge that senior Hizbullah members were involved in the 2005 assassination of Rafiq Hariri, the current prime minister’s father. The STL was established pursuant to UN Security Council Resolutions 1664 and 1757; the latter resolution was adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which is generally reserved for acts of aggression.

There is a tendency in the West to underestimate the Iranian role in Hizbullah decision-making.

Iran is signaling to the Obama administration that the main political developments in Lebanon are being decided today in Tehran and not in Washington. Iran is testing U.S. power and determination, and the states of the Middle East are closely following what will be the outcome. Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira is a senior research associate at the Jerusalem Center. (Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Excerpt Number 2 – The New York Times

Lacking Leverage, U.S. Grasps for a Solution in Lebanon

Mark Landler and Robert F.

Worth

As Lebanon’s government collapsed on Wednesday after a walkout by Hizbullah ministers, President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton both threw their support behind Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, as well as reaffirming the work of the international tribunal that is investigating the assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. But critics say the administration’s engagement in Lebanon has been episodic, in part because it is preoccupied with bigger problems in the region – not only Iran, but also the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the terrorist threat in Yemen. The U.S. also has little leverage over pivotal players in the drama, most notably the Islamist militant group Hizbullah.

(New York Times)

Excerpt Number 3 – Ynet News

Hizbullah’s Strategic Skill

Ron Ben-Yishai

Hizbullah quit the Lebanese government because it wants Lebanese public opinion to be preoccupied with the task of forming a new government, thereby diverting its attention from the conclusions of the special UN tribunal in respect to Hizbullah’s responsibility for Prime Minister Hariri’s assassination in 2005. The U.S. supports the effort to bring Hariri’s killers to justice, but shares the concern over the prospect of an ethnic war that may break out in Lebanon as result of such a move. At this time it appears that the domestic Lebanese crisis has no direct or immediate bearing on Israel. (Ynet News)

Excerpt Number 4 – Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Oil Policy

Simon Henderson

During the past three months, world prices for oil have steadily increased, leading to predictions that the $100 per barrel level will soon be breached.

In the past, Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, has used its market strength to influence prices.

A particular challenge for the U.S. is that rising oil prices undermine policy on Iran, where sanctions are intended to cause lower oil revenues. Yet figures released last month by the U.S. Department of Energy show that Iran’s January-November 2010 revenues were $64 billion, an increase of $11 billion over the full-year 2009 figure. An additional problem is that Iran has been chosen by OPEC members for the cartel’ s 2011 pre

sidency. (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

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Lebanon Stares Down into the Bottomless Pit

As One of Daniel’s Toes Hangs over Abyss’ Edge

Becoming 1 of

10 Kingdoms replaced by the Christ!

January 13, 2011

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Joel 3:9-17 – Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

[11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.

[12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. [13] Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. [14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. [15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. [16] The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. [17] So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Collection of Hizbollah News Headlines via World News

January 13, 2011

Lebanon stares into the abyss

Gulf News

Once again, Lebanon is on the brink of major social and political upheaval. Rumours of an impending armed clash between the Hezbollah and the pro-western governing coalition have…

Hizbollah forces Lebanon gov’t collapse

The Jordan Times

|Lebanon’s unity government collapsed on Wednesday after Hizbollah and its allies resigned from the Cabinet over a UN probe into the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri.

| Energy Minister Gebran Bassil told a press conference that…

Timing of Hezbollah’s resignation from Lebanon government no coincidence

Ha’aretz

It was no coincidence that the opposition Hezbollah party and its allies resigned from the cabinet yesterday, bringing down the Lebanese government, at the same moment that Prime Minister Saad Hariri met with U.S. President Obama in Washington.

Party leader Hassan Nasrallah stopped performing only…

Hezbollah and Hariri’s hour

Khaleej Times

Beirut is simmering with renewed tensions. Hezbollah’s ultimatum to pull out of the coalition, if the controversial trial under way to apparently indict the Shia militia is not stopped, will not merely be an ordinary political upheaval. | It is bound to create ripples for the fragile social fabric a…

Israeli troops on alert after Lebanese government falls, fearing new violence with Hezbollah

Star Tribune

JERUSALEM – A senior Israeli military officer says thousands of troops in the north are on alert following the fall of the Lebanese government. | Authorities are concerned that the political turmoil in Lebanon will spill over into renewed violence …

Lebanon government fails as Hezbollah allies quit

San Fransisco Chronicle

(01-13) 04:00 PST Cairo – — | The Lebanese government collapsed Wednesday after ministers from the Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies resigned in advance of expected indictments against members of the organization by a U.N.-backed tribunal in…

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Hariri cuts US visit short after his gov’t topples

By ASSOCIATED PRESS JPOST.COM STAFF

01/12/2011 19:50

Hizbullah and its allies pull out of Lebanese government over Hariri tribunal indictments expected “within hours or days”; move comes as Lebanese PM is in United States; Lebanese PM heads to Paris to meet with Sarkozy.

A Lebanese government official said Lebanon’s prime minister is heading to France for consultations on his government’s collapse.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri met with US President Barack Obama Wednesday. The official said Obama offered US support.

The Lebanese official said Hariri was traveling to Paris to meet President Nicolas Sarkozy before returning to Beirut. The official discussed the matter on condition of anonymity due to security and diplomatic concerns.

Lebanon’s year-old unity government collapsed Wednesday after Hizbullah ministers and their allies resigned over tensions stemming from a UN-backed tribunal investigating

the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

The walkout ushers in the country’s worst political crisis since 2008 in one of the most volatile corners of the Middle East.

The tribunal was widely expected to name members of Hizbullah in upcoming indictments, which many fear could re-ignite sectarian tensions that have plagued the tiny country for decades.

“This cabinet has become a burden on the Lebanese, unable to do its work,” Energy Minister Jibran Bassil said at a news conference announcing the resignations, flanked by the other ministers who are stepping down.

“We are giving a chance for another government to take over.”

Hizbullah, which is backed by Iran and Syria, has denounced the tribunal as an “Israeli project” and urged Western-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri — the son of the slain politician — to reject any findings by the court even before it announced any indictments.

But the prime minister has refused to break cooperation with the tribunal.

The office of Hariri had no immediate comment on the walkout that brought down his year-old government.

Hariri was in Washington on Wednesday to meet with Obama.

The walkout followed the failure of a diplomatic push by Syria and Saudi Arabia to ease political tensions in Lebanon. There had been few details about the direction of the Syrian-Saudi initiative, but the talks were lauded as a potential Arab breakthrough, rather than a solution offered by Western powers.

Bassil said the ministers decided to resign after Hariri “succumbed to foreign and American pressures” and turned his back on the Syrian-Saudi efforts.

Calls to the tribunal seeking comment Wednesday were not immediately returned.

Hariri formed the current national unity government in November 2009, but it has struggled to function amid deep divisions. The crisis over the tribunal has paralyzed the government in recent months.

Violence has been a major concern as tensions rise in Lebanon, where Shiites, Sunnis and Christians each make up about a third of the country’s four million people. In 2008, sectarian clashes killed 81 people and nearly plunged Lebanon into another civil war.

Rafik Hariri’s assassination in a suicide bombing that killed 22 other people both stunned and polarized Lebanese. He was a Sunni who was a hero to his own community and backed by many Christians who sympathized with his efforts in the last few months of his life to reduce Syrian influence in the country. A string of assassinations of anti-Syrian politicians and public figures followed, which UN investigators have said may have been connected to the Hariri killing.

The Netherlands-based tribunal has not said who it will indict, but Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has said he has information that members of his group will be named.

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There Can Never Be A Sustainable Negotiated Peace

With a Religion that Justifies Burying the Truth in LIES

Of scenarios that surpass All Limits of Sane Credibility!

Sustainable peace will only come by Son’s Rods of Iron

Following His 2nd Coming at the Battle Of Armageddon!

January 12, 2011

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Titus 1:12 – One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

II Thessalonians 2:8-12 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Revelation 16:13,14 – And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth

of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

II Thessalonians 1:7-10 – And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, [8] In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: [9] Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; [10] When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Luke 21:25-27 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

[27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Revelation 1:7,8 – Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

[8] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 2:26,27 – And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: [27] And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Psalm 2:6-9 – Yet have I set my king upon

my holy hill of Zion.

[7] I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. [8] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. [9] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

The 2 Excerpts are from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

Begin Excerpt 1 from State Department

Clinton: Only a Negotiated Settlement Will Bring a Sustainable Peace

State Department

From an interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Al Arabiya Television in Dubai on Tuesday:

Q: Why don’t we support the Palestinians and recognize the Palestinian state within the borders of 1967?

Clinton: “Because we don’t believe that there is any lasting solution other than through negotiation. We think that unless the two parties agree – which would not come about through unilateral recognition, but only through a negotiated settlement – that there is not a sustainable peace.

We want a sustainable, durable peace. That’s what we are committed to.” (State Department)

Begin Excerpt 2 from National Interest

Muslims and Truth

Benny Morris

In the wake of the New Year’s Day bombing outside the church in Alexandria, Egypt, in which 23 Coptic Christians were murdered, Sheikh Muhammad Rashid Qabbani, Lebanon’s Grand Mufti, immediately announced: “This assault…is not an individual internal Egyptian act, but a criminal act with Zionist…fingerprints.” A spokesman for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Munim Abu al Fattouh Abdel, said: It could not have been Egyptians.

Perhaps it was the Mossad. Iranian TV put it: “It goes without saying that no Muslim…will ever commit such an inhuman act.”

This r aises

a serious question. What are the bounds of credulity in the mendacity-ridden Muslim societies of the Middle East? Is there no limit to what

the infidel can be accused of – and to the expectation that the charge will stick? Which raises the still more profound question: What are the long-term prospects for peaceful cohabitation on planet Earth between us in the West and these Muslim societies in which truth has absolutely no traction or importance, where the masses believe that the CIA or the Mossad knocked down the Twin Towers on 9/11? (National Interest)

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