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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