Lebanon’s unity government collapses as Hezbollah, allies quit
CNN reports on civil unrest for Israel’s northern neighbor.
Comments (0) »Members of the powerful Hezbollah movement and its allies brought down Lebanon’s unity government Wednesday after resigning from Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s Cabinet.
Minister of State Adnan Sayyed Hussein turned in his resignation along with 10 members of the Hezbollah-led March 8 alliance, meaning that the threshold needed — 11 resignations from the 30-member Cabinet — to collapse the government had been reached.
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 at 5:28 PM | David Kuner
The Oral Historian of Israel’s Terror War
From an interview with Italian journalist Giulio Meotti, author of the compelling new book, A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel’s Victims of Terrorism:
If some day Israel were to fall into the hands of its enemies, the West as we know it would cease to exist. The West is what it is thanks to Rome, Jerusalem, and Athens–Rome’s rule of law, the Bible’s morality, and Greek democracy. If the Jewish part of those roots is overturned and Israel is lost, then we are lost too. Israel is a lighthouse of life at a time when life is our most endangered value.
Amen. Read the entire interview at Michael Totten’s website.
Comments (1) »Sunday, December 19th, 2010 at 12:21 PM | David Kuner
Security Cabinet okays Ghajar unilateral withdrawal
On Wednesday, Israel’s cabinet approved a United Nations proposal to withdraw Israeli troops from Ghajar, a village in the northern portion of the country that is straddling the Lebanese border. Responsibility for the village will be handed to UNIFIL (the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon), whose troops will redeploy around the village’s northern perimeter:
Comments (2) »Ghajar residents took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the security cabinet’s approval of a plan to unilaterally pull the IDF out of the northern part of their village, located on the Lebanese border.
In so doing, Israel has abided by Security Council Resolution 425 from 1978, under which the UN, in 2000, determined that the Israeli withdrawal line from Lebanon – known as the Blue Line – should run through Ghajar.
Its residents, however, had hoped to remain united under Israeli sovereignty.
Najib Khatib, a village spokesman, complained that no one had spoken with them about the new withdrawal plan.
Thursday, November 18th, 2010 at 4:56 PM | David Kuner
Lebanon: “Living on a volcano”
Politicians and diplomats, including IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, have voiced their concern that chaos will likely occur following release of the findings of a United Nations tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri. Many fear that if Hezbollah is indicted in the United Nations report, the terrorist group will usher in a new era of political instability, violence, and bloodshed:
Comments (0) »The last thing the United States wants now is a new Sunni-Shiite battle front as it struggles to contain similar sectarian tensions in Iraq, observers here say. Israel also is watching events anxiously, concerned that any internal Lebanese squabbles could spill southward and spark a renewed confrontation with Hezbollah, with which the Israeli military waged a deadly war to an inconclusive end in 2006.
Recent reaction to reports that Hezbollah members could be named in Hariri’s killing has demonstrated just how much power the organization has over the country’s affairs – and its psyche. In a blustery televised speech Thursday night, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said he won’t allow any members of his group to be arrested. “Any hand that will touch any of them will be cut off,” Nasrallah told a cheering crowd in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Hezbollah’s stronghold.
Observers here say if Hezbollah were named as being behind the murder of a Sunni leader, it would fuel historic Sunni-Shiite tensions that date back 1,400 years.
Monday, November 15th, 2010 at 4:03 PM | David Kuner
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