Vol: 112 Issue: 13 - Thursday, January 13, 2011By Jack Kinsella
(Jack Kinsella and Bill Salus met in Phoenix on Januarly 11, 2012. The following day Hezbollah made a political move destined to collapse the Lebanese Government. Below are a few excerpts written subsequently by Jack Kinsella in his Omega Letter Intelligence Digest)
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Hezbollah Collapses Lebanon Government
The government of Lebanon collapsed overnight following Hezbollah’s withdrawal from the country’s fragile unity coalition government.
President Michel Suleiman asked Saad Hariri to stay on as caretaker prime minister after the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies resigned Wednesday and brought down Hariri's government.
The crisis was the climax of tensions that have been simmering for months over the U.N. tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of Hariri's father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The tribunal is widely expected to indict members of Hezbollah soon, which many fear could rekindle violence in the tiny nation plagued for decades by war and civil strife.
Business tycoon and Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, nicknamed “Mr. Lebanon” was assassinated in Beirut on Valentine’s Day, 2005 by a car bomb blast so massive that it killed twenty-two other individuals as well.
A UN fact-finding mission was dispatched to Lebanon to investigate the killing, prompting Hezbollah to stage a million-strong pro-Syria demonstration in response.
Five years later, the UN is preparing to hand down indictments against members of Hezbollah and possibly Syrian officials. Hezbollah claims the tribunal is really an Israeli-US plot aimed at discrediting Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah.
Hezbollah demanded that the tribunal dissolved and the Lebanese share of its funding withdrawn, and has called for a number of witnesses that they describe as "fake" to instead face the Lebanese justice system.
A court spokesman, Crispin Thorold, said that the contents of the indictments will remain confidential until confirmed by the pretrial judge, which could take "at least six to 10 weeks" from the time the indictments are submitted. That may now come as soon as Monday.
In the first stages of the UN inquiry, Syria, which had had several thousand troops in Lebanon, was accused of the Hariri assassination. Rafik Hariri was, after all, a man Damascus had difficulty ruling.
More recently, under the investigation’s third chief prosecutor, Canadian Daniel Bellemare, blame is falling on Hezbollah, which is what prompted Hezbollah to quit the coalition and force the government collapse.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up a four-nation tour of US allies in the Persian Gulf with unusually blunt remarks to a regional development conference in the Qatari capital of Doha.
Clinton was asked why Arab leaders should listen to her criticism when the US “can’t even get Israel to make peace with the Palestinians.” To her credit, Clinton responded by reminding her critic that:
“When the Israelis pulled out of Lebanon, they got Hezbollah and 40,000 rockets and when they pulled out of Gaza they got Hamas and 20,000 rockets.”
Clinton characterized the Hezbollah withdrawal “as a transparent effort...to subvert justice and undermine Lebanon's stability and progress".
The Jerusalem Post said in an editorial that;
“It is important to understand why Nasrallah is so concerned with the findings of the Hague-based tribunal: If Hezbollah is found guilty, as expected, of assassinating Hariri it would contradict the image it has tried to create over the years as being the defender of Lebanon.
If it was defending Lebanon, why did it assassinate the country’s former prime minister?
The problem for Hezbollah is that toppling the Lebanese government does not ensure that this “defender” image will be retained. What it is trying to do instead is force the current Prime Minister Saad Hariri to denounce the tribunal’s findings and clear Hezbollah's name.
The problem for Lebanon is that Hezbollah’s militia, ordered disbanded under the terms of UN Resolution 1701, has instead become more powerful than the existing Lebanese Army.
Assessment:
"While I, (Jack Kinsella) was in Phoenix (shooting a TV show for Jewish Voice TV), I had the pleasure of spending several hours with Bill Salus (also taping a TV show on Mideast events), author of “Isralestine” which explores the connection between the prophecies of Psalms 83, Isaiah 17, Jeremiah 49 and Obadiah and the Lebanon War of 2006.
We discussed the impending collapse and where things could go from here. It seems probable that the next step will be war. If this is the war Salus is anticipating, when the smoke clears, much of the Arab Middle East will be a radioactive wasteland.
Perhaps that will be the event that brings about the false peace covenant that results in Israel becoming the “land of unwalled villages” described in Ezekiel 38 at the time of the Gog-Magog invasion?
I was tremendously impressed with the ministry of Jewish Voice Ministries when I was there a couple of years ago; having made a second trip only cemented that impression.
Over the years, I have been greatly blessed over the course of my own ministry to rub shoulders with some of the giants of the faith.
The first prophecy conference at which I was a featured speaker included such luminary Christian leaders as Dr. John Walvoord, Hal Lindsey, Chuck Missler, Dave Hunt and Jack Van Impe. Since then, I've been blessed to rub shoulders with many, many more.
While I have met many giants, there are only a few men I would term “great” men of faith. Rabbi Jonathan Bernis, (pictured at right with an Ethiopian child), is a man of such genuine, certifiable greatness.Bernis had only recently returned from an outreach to the Bene Manache in Mizoram, India.
A passage in a JVMI blog of the outreach posted by a dentist volunteer explains what they were up against.
“The conditions for us Westerners were tough—sleeping in tents on hard floors; cold washes with a pitcher and bucket for a shower; reconstituted, freeze-dried food; bus rides that went on forever over bumpy, twisty roads. Let’s not forget the 48 hours of travel to get there. And did I mention all the need medically and dentally? It was overwhelming.
The dental need in every child that I say was incomprehensible for a Western trained dentist. All children older than 18 months had all or nearly all of their teeth rotted out beyond recognition.”
JVMI was able to bring medical and dental treatment for – get this – THIRTY THOUSAND people, most of whom had never ever seen a doctor or dentist. THIRTY THOUSAND! And that was just this past year.When I was there last, they had just returned from Ethiopia where they had treated similarly large crowds of people to whom medical care was as common as moon rocks.
The JVMI volunteers are not just treating diseased bodies – they are treating diseased souls as well.
Here are some typical statistics for JVMI’s most recent Ethiopian (2010) outreach from their website:
9,750 treated
918 salvations
354 healings
1,731 pairs of glasses
67 eye surgeries
5 babies delivered
After the taping, Jonathan took Bill Salus and me out for a late dinner and conversation. Later, I taped an interview with Bill for his (Prophecy Update) radio program.
Maranatha!
Jack Kinsella
