Lebanon Has Radical

New Government

Israel Warns Lebanon Against Violating 1701

No Peace In Israel

Until God Brings Peace

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,  I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land (Joel 3:1-2).

"We hope the Cabinet will earn your confidence and the confidence of your representatives in parliament," he said, addressing the Lebanese people. The PM noted that the government's most important goals are to hold fast onto the Taef accord, defend the Lebanese constitution and liberate the remaining lands occupied by the "Israeli" enemy. "

Lebanon Has A Radical New Government

June 19, 2011 (June 17, 2011)

Lebanon has a radical new government

Debkafile

http://www.debka.com/article/21037/

     Lebanon has a radical new government. It gives Assad his second front. After five months of political stagnation, Lebanon has a new government headed by Najib Mikati, ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hizballah. Formed suddenly on June 13, the 30-minister lineup has awarded an unprecedented number of portfolios – 18, including defense interior – to Hizballah loyalists and pro-Syrian politicians. Gone is the careful sectarian balancing act which maintained a measure of equilibrium and kept civil war in Lebanon at bay. The breakthrough was directly spawned by the Syrian uprising: The Shiite Hizballah capitalized on neighboring unrest to grab its largest slice of government ever. Assad set up a second front against his foes in Beirut, added muscle to his military repression at home and signaled the US, Turkey and Europe that attempts to topple his regime risked sparking civil strife and chaos in neighboring Lebanon. The peril of inflaming the entire Levant was meant to deter foreign military intervention in Syria.

     Furthermore -

     1. Lebanon's first pro-Syrian defense minister can bend the Lebanese army to the will of Damascus and the pro-Iranian HizballIah. The minister, Fayez Ghosn, member of the Marada Movement led by MP Sleiman Franjiehof the influential northern Lebanese "Christian" clan whose private militia is traditionally funded by the Assad family in Damascus.  So next time Hizballah coordinates with Syria a mass Palestinian demonstration to storm the two frontiers – as it did on May 15 - the Lebanese army will not be there to block its advance. A clash with Israeli troops would then become inevitable on both fronts.

     2. Ghosn can count on firm support from the new interior minister, Brig. Gen. Marwan Charbel, a Marad follower who will control all the national intelligence and security services. Close cooperation between the two promises Damascus and Hizballah total grip on every aspect of security - domestic and external. Pro-Western agencies in Lebanon are in for hard times. General Charbel is close to another "Christian" powerhouse with a role in government, Gen. Michel Aoun, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement and Hizballah's chief "Christian" ally. This interior minister was chosen to cement the disparate parts of government and push the "Christian" President Gen. Michel Suleiman into a corner from which he has no choice but to kowtow to an administration which is the tool of Damascus and Hizballah.

     3. Aoun's "Christian" bloc was awarded eight ministerial portfolios, including the important justice, energy minister and telecommunications. For years, Hizballah coveted telecommunications because of its control over Lebanon's satellite communications, landline and cellular phone systems as well as radio and television networks. When denied this post, Hizballah used Iranian funding to establish its own independent media networks. Now telecommunications is in friendly hands.

     4.  Damascus and Hizballah have also attained command of Lebanon's judicial and security systems in time to anticipate the international court's publication of indictments for the 2005 assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. According tips they have received, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon-STL plans to issue indictments against Syrian military intelligence officials and members of Hizballah's security and intelligence organizations at the end of this month or in early July. Publication will come with warrants for the arrest and extradition of these suspects. Damascus sees Washington's long arm behind this move for the purpose of punishing Assad for his harsh punishment of Syrian dissenters. The new Lebanese government is structured to outmaneuver the special tribunal by issuing a statement invalidating its authority and refusing to obey its decrees.

     5. The pro-Iranian and pro-Syrian government installed now in Beirut is a major shot in the arm for the radical Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah alliance which sagged after the loss of one of its senior members, Turkey. Up until the eruption of the Arab Revolt in December 2010, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was a prominent member of this bloc, viewing it as the vehicle for fulfilling his dream of a dominant regional role and serving as the bridge between the Muslim world and the West. In the last three months, Erdogan established rapport with US President Barack Obama, as a result of which Iran, Syria and Hizballah decided to drop him. The new Lebanese government makes it possible to replace Turkey by Lebanon, the state, rather than Hizballah, the movement, as a full-fledged member of their alliance. (It is prophesied that Turkey will turn on Israel).

Prime Minister Miqati: Government Belongs To All Lebanese  

June 15, 2011

Lebanese 30-Minister Government Headed by PM Najib Mikati Sees Light, Minister Areslan Resigns

By the Islamic Resistance In Lebanon Website

http://www.english.moqawama.org/essaydetails.php?eid=14297&cid=221

     Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Monday after the formation of the long-awaited new government that he will remain committed to the constitution, liberation of Lebanon's occupied territory, and dialogue as a means to end dispute among the Lebanese. He said from the Baabda Palace: "I thank you for your tolerance and for bearing all the obstacles and demands we faced during the government formation process. We have overcome the differences in the government formation and we should immediately head to work. We hope the Cabinet will earn your confidence and the confidence of your representatives in parliament," he said, addressing the Lebanese people. The PM noted that the government's most important goals are to hold fast onto the Taef accord, defend the Lebanese constitution and liberate the remaining lands occupied by the "Israeli" enemy. 

     Miqati announced his government line-up following nearly five months of arduous negotiations over key portfolios including the Interior, Justice and Telecommunications Ministries. "There can be no substitute to coexistence to confront the major dangers facing Lebanon," Miqati continued. "This government belongs to the whole of Lebanon. Don't judge intentions and the people, but their performance," he added. The Prime Minister credited Speaker Nabih Berri for his efforts in the formation process, saying it would not have been formed without him. "I took the last minute decision because the matters in the country had reached an unbearable point," Miqati concluded.

     Areslan Refuses His Share in New Government: Lebanese Democratic Party leader State Minister and MP Talal Areslan resigned on Monday from the newly-formed government whose lineup was revealed earlier in the day. He said during a press conference: "In line with my convictions, I announce before the Lebanese people my resignation from the government of the so-called Premier Najib Miqati whom I am not honored to be seated next to." He added that he had nothing against all other ministers in government. "Miqati tried to incite disagreements between the LDP, Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, the Resistance and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt," he said."Such practices are deception and a conspiracy against national unity," the MP stressed adding "I believe that the worst is yet."

     Areslan said that it was unfortunate that discrimination was adopted in the formation process and that the issue of the distribution of sovereign portfolios was dealt with in an "inappropriate" manner. "It's as if the Druze aren't allowed to acquire the Interior, Finance, Defense, and Foreign Ministries," he noted. "This is a conspiracy against the social contract and national principles," he stressed, noting "It demonstrates the fragility of our political system, which has become marred with discrimination." However, he said that nothing "can divide" him and Hizbullah. The MP demanded that Speaker Nabih Berri set him as the first speaker at the parliament session dedicated to granting the government confidence, adding that the Lebanese Democratic Party will not grant it confidence.

Israel Warns Lebanon Against Violating 1701

June 16, 2011

Israel warns Lebanon against violating 1701

By Patrick Galey The Daily Star  

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Jun-16/Israel-warns-Lebanon-against-violating-1701.ashx#axzz1Pgpp4BAU

     BEIRUT: Israel warned Lebanon’s new Cabinet Wednesday to respect its international legal and border agreements, including the cessation of hostilities between the two one-time belligerents. A statement released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry also appeared to indicate that it was prepared to negotiate with Lebanon, should the latest government in Beirut recognize Israel’s right to exist. “Israel hopes that the new Lebanese government will contribute to reinforcing regional stability and respect for the law along its border,” the ministry said. “Israel expects the Lebanese government to apply U.N. Security Council resolutions, in particular Resolution 1701, and it calls for the resolution of all outstanding issues through negotiations and with mutual respect.”

     Resolution 1701, drafted in the wake of the devastating 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel – a conflict that killed more than 1,200 Lebanese and 160 Israelis – stipulates that the Blue Line be respected. Pre-existing U.N. resolutions demand the eradication of all non-state arms in Lebanon, an obligation Israel accuses Hezbollah of ignoring. Israel (has been accused by the Lebanese Army countless times of crossing the Blue Line into southern territory routinely violating Lebanese airspace with near daily reconnaissance flights and mock air raids). The Blue Line is not the border between Lebanon and Israel. Rather, it is the U.N. delineated boundary of Israeli military withdrawal from south Lebanon. U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon spokesperson Neeraj Singh said that both Lebanon and Israel had made a commitment to respect a cessation of hostilities, even before Resolution 1701.

     “In 2000, when Israel withdrew from south Lebanon, both the parties agreed to respect the Blue Line,” he told The Daily Star. “UNIFIL’s mandate doesn’t touch upon a long-term solution [between Lebanon and Israel]. That’s something that has to be addressed through political means.” Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s Cabinet, formed after nearly five months of negotiation, contains 18 ministers from Hezbollah’s March 8 bloc. Announcing the conclusion of the talks Monday, Mikati said the new government would work on “defending Lebanon’s sovereignty and its independence and liberating land that remains under the occupation of the Israeli enemy.” The new Cabinet has been endorsed by Iran, Hezbollah’s prime regional backer, and Syrian President Bashar Assad. A senior U.S. lawmaker has threatened to withdraw financial assistance to Lebanon, and France, which still wields influence over a country it used to have a mandate on, has urged Beirut to adhere to its international obligations, including cooperation with the U.N.-backed court probing the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

     Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yigal Palmor said his ministry’s statement did not constitute a call for immediate negotiations with Lebanon. “The way to solve everything, one day, is through negotiations,” Palmor told the German Press-Agency DPA. “We call on the Lebanese government to adopt the negotiating approach. If they agree to negotiate, then yes, of course we would. If the other side agrees to recognize Israel and to negotiate with Israel and to solve problems through negotiations, then yes, we will negotiate with them,” Palmor said.

No Peace In Israel

Until God Brings Peace

It Is Prophesied The Anti-Christ Will Bring A Deceptive Peace Deal To Israel & Palestinians

--Only To Break The Peace Deal In The Midst Of The Tribulation

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.  ...Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:  ...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: Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 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.

Joel 3:1-12

Abbas Says Recognitions Hit Israel

Jan. 2, 2011

Abbas Says Recognitions Hit Israel

By AP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/

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     BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said that a recent wave of nations recognizing a Palestinian state based upon 1967 borders (see The Giving Away Of God’s Promised Land Principles Of The Accords: The Genocide Of The Edomites)  is pressuring Israel and the U.S. to return to negotiations and reach a peace deal. Abbas, in Brazil to lay the cornerstone of a Palestinian Embassy and attend the inauguration of President-elect Dilma Rousseff, told The Associated Press in an interview that recent recognition of a Palestinian state by several Latin American nations would help push the U.S. and Israel into new talks. "These recognitions of a Palestinian state will help us to convince the Israelis on the necessity to reach a two-state solution," said Abbas.

     The current round of peace negotiations collapsed in late September, just weeks after they were launched, when Israel ended a slowdown on settlements in West Bank areas it captured in 1967, land where the Palestinians plan to build their state. By December, the U.S. abandoned trying to persuade Israel to halt the settlements. The Palestinians refuse to negotiate while Israel builds homes for Jews in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Abbas said he expects other Latin American and European nations to soon join Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia in recognizing a Palestinian state. Uruguayan officials have said they'll likely recognize the state soon. Cuba and Venezuela did so long ago.

     Eventually, Abbas said, "It will only be Israel and maybe the United States who do not recognize the Palestinian state — and this will put pressure on them." The Israeli government has reacted testily to the recognitions, saying that inaugurating an embassy for a nonexistent state — and Palestinians efforts for recognition of that state — is not the best way to achieve peace. "The Israeli government has been trying to relaunch and re-engage Palestinians in direct talks for a very long time," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Shachar Azani told the AP. "Unfortunately, so far there has been no response." Azani said that the Palestinians "must remember that at the end of the day peace is done with your neighbor and not in faraway continents or with the United Nations."

     Earlier this week, Palestinian officials said they plan to ask the U.N. Security Council to declare Israeli settlements illegal and demand a halt to their construction. That would be a key element in a Palestinian campaign to rally international support for independence. Abbas said the settlements were the cause of the stalled talks. "It's not that we don't want the negotiations. We were extending our hand always to the negotiations with the Israelis," he said. Despite the deadlocked talks, Abbas said he is "optimistic that 2011 will be the year of peace." "The Palestinian people have suffered a lot. They need to live free in their own state and they hope this will be achieved in 2011," he said.

     Earlier Friday, Abbas laid the cornerstone for a future Palestinian Embassy in Brazil. "We seek peace. We demand this peace not only for our generation but also for our children, our grandchildren and their children," Abbas said at the ceremony. "We know the Israelis believe in this peace." Brazil donated a plot of land in its embassy district in Brasilia — as it has done for nations in the past. At the ceremony, white doves were released and a banner overhead read: "Palestinian Homeland" in Arabic.

Off The Record: Is Time Running Out For Peace?

Dec. 9, 2010

Off the record: Is time running out for peace?

By Paul Danahar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11959693

     The recent talks, launched in September at the White House, led nowhere "It was a total waste of time." This, a Palestinian assessment of the 18 months of proximity talks run by the US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell. "Rubbish, nothing, no progress whatsoever," said to me by someone with in-depth knowledge of the process, shortly after the direct talks began to run into the sand last month. Those talks have been abandoned over the issue of Jewish settlements being built on occupied Palestinian land. So, the State Department has said, George Mitchell is heading back to the region to start over. Mr Mitchell privately joked that his role as the special Middle East envoy was his "second retirement." Perhaps this will be his third.

     Coercion, not seduction: So after all the noise and bluster and the "wasted" time, has this American administration lost all credibility? George Mitchell is well-liked, but is he up to the job? "Absolutely," another senior Palestinian source told me this week. And while they like and respect Mr Mitchell, the Palestinians believe it's going to take someone higher up the food chain to move things on. "It needs the [full] clout of the United States to tell [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu 'You are going to do this', to show willingness to take measures such as those taken by Mr Bush, the father [George HW Bush]." It was time for Mr Obama to stop trying to "seduce" the Israeli prime minister. But many commentators from all sides believe that there is little prospect of a peace deal with the present Israeli coalition.

     A senior Israeli politician told me last week: "At the end of the day, the choice is between this coalition and peace. Not 'peace process'. They can live with peace process, they like peace process." The Palestinians too want Mr Netanyahu to dump the right-wingers and offer the centrist party, Kadima, a role in government. I was told that the leader of Kadima, Tzipi Livni, once said privately about Mr Netanyahu that she would "join the coalition if only to hold his shaking hand while he signs the peace deal." But while the leaders of the two main Israeli parties do have occasional talks, they seem a long way from a new coalition.

     Laughing and fighting: The peace process has been going on now since October 1991, nearly 20 years. The issues are not new, the likely look of a final deal is not new, not even the people that are discussing the issues are new. The peace process has been going a long time They all know each other, greet like old friends, crack jokes. Then sit down and argue. The only things that have changed over the years are the lengths of the sideburns and the width of the trousers. But can it keep going on like this? The Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon told me earlier this year that peace would only be possible with the next generation of Palestinians. The problem he said was that "the Arabs are still teaching their kids to deny Israel's right to exist." Attitudes could not be changed in two years, he said: "If they can do it in five years, OK, but..."

     'Now-ish or never:' Palestinians say the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad is about as moderate as Israel is going to get. Hoping that the next generation of Palestinians, walled off by Israel's concrete barrier, is going to be more benign is, they say, wishful thinking. A former Israeli cabinet minister told me recently he thought that "time is of the essence" before shifts in Israeli society and the growth in the ultra-Orthodox population changes the dynamics for good. "We have no other alternative, we need to do it. Ten years from now we are going to see something completely different demographically in Israel. "It's not only about the state of Israel as a democratic and Jewish state but also the substance of the nature of the Israeli Jewish state.

     "What does it mean from a religious perspective, from a national perspective… the Jewish-ness of the state? Without solving this, it's going to make it almost impossible." The fear that it's "now-ish or never" is also shared by foreign diplomats. "Jerusalem today is Israel tomorrow," one told me, and the demographics in Jerusalem are already "incredible" with just a small percentage of children being educated in secular state schools. The growth is coming from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish and Israeli Arab communities - the two ends of the spectrum.

     Endangered species: The secular Israeli right are also worried about growing signs of intolerance in Israeli society. [President] Obama took himself up a high tree and we went with him.” Prime Minister Netanyahu just this week condemned a call by 50 state-funded rabbis for a ban on the renting or sale of property to Israeli citizens who are not Jewish. The call for peace used to be led by the Israeli left but they have been completely marginalized and are up there on the endangered list with the panda. If this generation can't reach a deal, will the next one even try? A peace deal within a year was Mr. Obama's ambition. That looks very unlikely now. A peace deal within this generation of Israeli and Palestinians leaders is still not impossible. A peace deal with this present coalition, according to many, is. The Palestinians were "hopeful that this administration had all the good intentions to really take us somewhere." Mr. Obama had made all the right noises about "the linkage of the peace process and settlements" and so "Obama took himself up a high tree and we went with him," I was told by a source.

Conclusion

     Do not divide up the land of Israel and give it away! That is the message of the prophets. God did not authorize the Quartet, Shimon Peres, or the Oslo Accords to divide up Israel and give it away to the heathen. There will be a heavy penalty to pay for disobeying God’s command. The scenario, according to Bible prophecy will be the nations of the earth gathering in Israel from the north in the Valley of Jezreel into Judaea. The Palestinians, her army and civilians, are going to be wiped out completely. That is the fate of the Middle East. Why? Because they refuse to bless God’s chosen people the Jews, they divide up their land and steal it, they terrorize the Jewish population, and they scatter them from their homeland.

     The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. Behold, I have made thee (Palestinians) small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

     The Palestinians are a greatly despised people. No nation is willing to take them as a people and help these refugees. They may receive lip service but they are only being used as a propaganda tool by the nations. It is their fate since they choose to terrorize God’s chosen people.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you (to possess the anti-Christ), having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman (Israel) which brought forth the man child (Jesus Christ). And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth (Rev. 12:12-16).