Israel Foreign Minister: Lebanon Situation Explosive

Israel foreign minister: Lebanon situation 'explosive'
PARIS - Israel's foreign minister on Wednesday called the situation in Lebanon "explosive" and urged the international community to work quickly to deploy peacekeeping troops there. Meanwhile, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora urged the United States to help end Israel's sea and air blockade, and said his country was making "every effort" to secure its borders.

Israeli PM rules out talks with Syria...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday ruled out any resumption of peace talks with Syria, which stalled for more than six years ago, as long as Damascus continues to support "terrorism."

"As long as Syria continues to support terrorism, there is no basis for negotiations," Olmert said.

"When Syria stops support for terror, when it stops giving missiles to terror organisations, then we will be happy to negotiate with them," he said.

US says Iran reply falls short of demands
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that Iran's response to a package of incentives offered from world powers fell short of a U.N. Security Council demand that Tehran abandon enrichment activities.

Russia offers to mediate between Iran and the West on the nuclear dispute
Moscow and Beijing urge taking Tehran up on its offer of serious negotiations in response to the six-power proposal of incentives in return for giving up uranium enrichment. The Security Council has given Iran until August 31 to make that announcement failing which the United States will press for a separate resolution imposing sanctions.

Ancient biblical waterworks found in Israel
RAMAT RACHEL, Israel (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed an ancient water system which was modified by the conquering Persians to turn the desert into a paradise.

Why this man (Almadinejad) should give us all nightmares
Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons? We have them, so has America, France, Russia, Israel, China, Pakistan, India and possibly North Korea. So why make such a fuss about Iran?

After all, we gulped, but then decided to accept Pakistan's and India's nuclear bombs. Why? Because we recognised that their bombs are, essentially, a continuation of the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine which, as a deterrent, kept us from nuclear Armageddon throughout the Cold War.

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Syria is threatening the closure of the Lebanese-Syrian border if U.N. peacekeeping troops are deployed along their border.  This would prevent traffic coming or going from either country.  

Israel, on the other hand, says it won’t lift its sea and air blockade if they’re not deployed on the border.  Israel, and anyone with good commonsense, believes Hizbollah is being re-armed by Iran by way of Syria…and you can bet they are.  

Here’s a story that just doesn’t make any sense at all.  Apparently, Amnesty International, a human rights group, is accusing Israel of war crimes against Lebanon.  

The report said “the widespread destruction of apartments, houses, electricity and water services, roads, bridges, factories and ports,” taken with statements by Israeli officials, “suggests a policy of punishing both the Lebanese government and the civilian population in an effort to get them to turn against Hezbollah.” http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=4352 

It amazes me that everyone in the (free) world recognizes Hizbollah to be a proxy army of Syria and Iran who is based illegally in Lebanon except Amnesty International.  If terrorists are allowed to kidnap Israeli soldiers and fire missiles from Lebanon…then Lebanon will have to be held accountable.  And if Hizbollah fights and hides within Lebanese population centers then that’s where the war will have to be fought.  

Hizbollah has proven time and again that they care nothing about the safety of the Lebanese people.  Let’s not forget that virtually all of Hizbollah missiles were aimed at Israeli population centers.  They chose not to target military installations. 

No other country in the world would put up with what Israel has endured.  Certainly not the U.S. as they proved when they overthrew Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban after they refused to give up the leaders of Al Qaeda.  Nobody was crying that the response was disproportional then!  

Today, I read an article titled “Why This Man Should Give Us All Nightmares”.  The man the article is referring to is Iranian President Mahmoud Almadinejad. 

Certainly, since his rise to power in 2005, he has made a number of eyebrow raising statements toward Israel and the West.  But it is his strict religious beliefs and apocalyptic speeches that have produced many a restless nights for leaders around the globe.  He even decided to make his response to the U.N. resolution on a sacred day (August 22^nd) in the Islamic calendar.

It is the day on which the Prophet Mohammed made his miraculous night flight from Jerusalem to heaven and back on Buraq, the winged horse.

As one Iranian exile told me yesterday: 'The trouble with you secular people is that you don't realise how firmly Ahmadinejad believes - literally - in things like the winged horse. By choosing this date for his decision, he is telling his followers that he is going to obey his religious duty.

'And he believes that his religious duty is to create chaos and bloodshed in the "infidel" world, in order to hasten the return of the Mahdi - the Hidden Imam. So don't expect him to behave, in your eyes, "reasonably".'  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_article_id=401858&in_page_id=1787

Whether you believe it or not God has even raised up Almadinejad for this moment in time…and you can bet his day is coming.

Are you ready to meet the Lord?  If not, your time is running out!

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