Posted on 01/13/2011 8:15:52 AM PST by nuconvert
Nobody wanted it. Few expected it. Many are worried it will lead to armed confrontation in the streets of Beirut.
The fall of the government of Prime Minister Said Hariri marks a significant escalation by Hezbollah in their effort to take control of Lebanon; it also ratchets up tensions between Sunnis and Shias that could explode into violence if not checked.
Eleven opposition cabinet ministers resigned on Wednesday, constitutionally causing the government’s collapse. At issue: the Special Tribunal Lebanon’s (STL) imminent announcement of indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. It is widely expected that high ranking members of Hezbollah will be among those named in the crime – a turn of events that obviously doesn’t sit well with the terrorist group/political party. Indictments would tarnish its image in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Arab world as an incorruptible bulwark and “resistance” force against Israel. More importantly, it would weaken its political position in Lebanon, delivering a body blow to the party’s efforts to achieve de facto control of the government.
Hezbollah is demanding that Prime Minister Hariri not only disassociate the government from the STL, but they also want him to issue a public statement declaring the Tribunal to be a Israeli-US controlled device to destroy Hezbollah. Hariri has firmly refused to do so, saying he would not sit in any room with a cabinet that even voted on such measure while Hezbollah has said they won’t sit in a room with a prime minister who refuses to hold such a vote. Therein lies the seeds of the crisis that came to fruition on Wednesday with the opposition ministers resigning.
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Get it on, kick those Islamo dorks out, and feel the freedon baby!!!!
And Obozo's buddies. Hence they have NO fear of US
how about a constitution designed to thwart this crap so the government doesn’t collapse?
Functioning Constitution? Chances of that went out when the Phalangist Militia Leader “Bashir Gemayel” (Maronite Christian)was assasinated in Beirut, Lebanon in September 1982. There will never be peace in Lebanon, it is not in the Muslim DNA.
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