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Lebanon

The Gaza-Israel War & The Chess Game – Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya [video]

108morris108
November 30, 2012

Shiite and Sunni divisions are political constructs
De-linking Hamas from Resistance Bloc to start a Muslim Civil War
Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah helped the Palestinians in Gaza
Stark contrasts between Gaza and Syria
From the RT Article here: http://rt.com/news/gaza-israel-syria-hamas-892
More Mahdi articles here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/mahdi-darius-nazemroaya
btw this video was re-uploaded because of an initial sound fault


Nasrallah Will Not Let Syria Fail – Mr Leb Resistance [video]

108morris108
December 5, 2012

The Goal of the Syrian insurgency has not really been to topple Assad but to prevent Hezbollah being rearmed through Syria.


McGrath on RT ~ Syria Fightings Spills into Lebanon [video]

crabbydogtrix
December 5, 2012

Charlie McGrath on RT


The Lebanese Conduit For The Syrian Insurgency – Lebanese Girl [video]

108morris108
December 1, 2012

Lebanese Jihadis dying and politicians financing terrorism in Syria
Sorry for the Tech problem – My mistake (Morris)


Lebanon commemorates assasinated Intelligence Bureau chief [video]

PressTV
December 2, 2012

A ceremony was held in Northern Lebanon’s city of Tripoli to commemorate the death of the assassinated Lebanese Intelligence Bureau chief General Wissam Al Hassan. Hassan died in a car bombing that rocked central Beirut in mid October.

Press TV’s Serena Shim reports from Tripoli.

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The Next War: Destination “Lebanon”

by Rev. Richard Skaff
Global Research
October 21, 2012

The New York times reported that a powerful bomb devastated a Christian neighborhood of Lebanon’s capital on Friday October 19, 2012, killing an intelligence official long viewed as an enemy by neighboring Syria and unnerving as Syria’s sectarian-fueled civil war threatened to engulf the region.

The blast which sheared off the face of buildings, killed at least eight people, wounded 80 and transformed a quiet tree-lined street in to a scene reminiscent of Lebanon’s long civil war. Within hours of the attack the Lebanese authorities said the dead included the intelligence chief of the country’s internal security service, Brig. Gen. Wissam Al-Hassan 47, spurring accusations that the Syrian government had assassinated him for recently uncovering what the authorities said was a Syrian plot to provoke unrest in Lebanon. They wanted to get him, and they got him, “said Paul Salem a regional analyst with the Carnegie Middle East Center.” [1]

The Associated Press reported that the Friday blast was a reminder of Lebanon’s grim history, when the 1975-1990 Civil War made the country notorious for kidnappings, car bombs, and political assassinations. The associated Press went on to say that even the war’s end, Lebanon has been a proxy battleground for the regional conflicts, and the seaside capital has been a prey to sudden and often unexplained violence shattering periods of calm. As usual State Department spokes-woman Victoria Nuland condemned the bombing. She said the U.S. had no information about the perpetrators. Meanwhile, Syrian information minister Omran Al-Zouebi denounced the bombing, calling it a “terrorist and cowardly” attack. At the same time, Syria’s top ally in Lebanon the Shiite Hezbollah movement also condemned the attack expressing its “state of great shock over this terrible crime.” [2]

Analysis

As in every crime scene we need to first assess who the instigators might be, and who would benefit from these acts of violence. Should we just gather the usual suspects and bury the truth? Or should we expand our horizon and explore other possible suspects.

Ironically and for decades, most of the sudden acts of violence in Lebanon have been committed by unknown hands and have gone unclaimed, leaving room for speculation and accusations, which is a convenient way to lay the blame on a specific person, group, party, sect, or country, resulting in the creation of a mistrustful and paranoid atmosphere that reinforces divisiveness.

It is no secret that Lebanon’s relationship with Syria has been toxic for many years despite the proximity between the two countries and the political declarations by their politicians who pronounce them as two closely-knitted nations.

Syria has been engulfed for the past year in an alleged civil unrest aiming at regime change just like in Egypt, Iraq, Libya and other neighboring Arab Countries under the guise of a revolutionary Arab spring financed by Western and Saudi money. These sham revolutions have been instigated, fueled, and staged by western powers and their proxies in the Middle East like the Israelis and the Saudis.

The Western intelligence agencies in Syria as in Libya, Egypt, and Iraq have unleashed once again their mercenaries known otherwise as the Mujahedeen or Al Quaeda fighters who were once trained and financed by the Central Intelligence Agency, Mossad, and other Western Intelligence apparatus to fight Soviet Troops during the Soviet-Afghani war in the 1980s. These mercenaries have been moved from one hot spot to another to fuel and destabilize countries that are not fully aligned with US policies. The destabilization process usually begins with instigation, bribes to local politicians and peasants to create a fertile breeding ground for recruiting criminals who become well-paid resistance fighters. Subsequently, the undesirable regimes will buckle and their leaders are dethroned and assassinated. Meanwhile the US media is grooming and preparing the American public to accept and support another low intensity conflict in a far region of the earth. By the time they are done the public is fearful and fully behind their president to take down another evildoer that threatens American interest and sovereignty. Remember that you have to give a dog a bad name before you kill him. The media is always ready for this entertaining task that terrifies the proles and improves their ratings. You must also realize that people love pseudo-wars that are easily won, because they vicariously act out their instinctual aggression through these military exercises called wars by our politicians and the media.

Mr. Obama doesn’t need another mini-war or a terror attack to win this coming election despite the multimillion dollar theatrics of a pseudo-democracy. His inept opponent was picked by the elite to ensure an easy win, because Mr. Obama has continued his predecessor’s policies and completely fulfilled what is expected of him despite the caustic rhetoric that get the proles excited. Therefore, and after the election is over, Syria, the poor country with no significant resources that borders Israel, an old Soviet client, and a current Russian ally will be fully embroiled in deeper violence that will eventually obliterate its secular regime that was once supported by the U.S., which will result in a total disintegration of that country into small, fanatic, allegedly independent, and homogeneous principalities bickering with each other and under the indirect control of the Israeli Zionist regime. The Western plan for the Middle East coincides with Yinon’s vision to redraw the region and the new re-mapping has to go through Syria.

Lebanon and Iran will follow. Iran would be the toughest to divide because of its homogenous Shiite population, but the nuclear weapon card will be played to its fullest.

Lebanon’s alleged past “Civil War” was a financed prototype for balkanizing countries, and a prospective model for the entire region and the world. Unfortunately, Lebanon that was once called the Switzerland of the Mediterranean will never have peace and will continue to have bloodshed until “Hezbollah” “God’s party” is totally disarmed and destroyed in order to ensure the security of Israel and the re-division of that country. The Israeli intelligence has been extremely active in Lebanon for years in a continuous effort to destabilize it, or to create incidents of provocation that will justify an invasion of the country or an assassination of powerful Lebanese political figures.

Meanwhile, the great Colonial Western Powers will deem these financed and pre-planned conflicts in the Middle East as zealous, barbaric and uncivilized, which will give them high moral ground and the green light to justify and maintain their blood sucking strategy to impoverish these nations and send them back into the middle ages. Ironically, these western nations that claim sophistication and magnificence acquire their superpower through their innate and natural parasitic mechanism that allows them to forcibly or manipulatively attach themselves to any host country and suck the blood (oil, resources, gold, etc) out of it, then, slowly leave it to die. At the same time, these resource vampires arrogantly promulgate their new aristocracies on the graves of other nations, and proclaim grandeur and superiority by attributing it to their Christian love, morality, and democratic ideology.

Finally, Lebanon will continue to bleed as the whole Middle East will continue to hemorrhage until every drop of oil and resource are totally depleted, and then and only then, the Near East where the dawn of Western Civilization began will be left alone to quietly perish.

Notes

1. Barnard, Anne (2012). Bomb kills 8 in Beirut. New York Times, October 20, 2012
2. Mroue, Bassem (2012). Bombing renews fears. Associated press October 20, 2012

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Latest Beirut Bombing Incident: “False Flag”?

by Stephen Lendman
Global Research
October 21, 2012

First impressions suggest another “who done it” incident. Similar ones occurred many times before. Guilty parties often get named later. Key always is cui bono?

The mainstream media never explain what’s most important. Instead, headlines like “Blast in Beirut Is Seen as an Extension of Syria’s War” circulate.

The New York Times said it “devastated a Christian neighborhood (Friday), killing an intelligence official long viewed as an enemy by neighboring Syria and unnerving a nation as Syria’s sectarian-fueled civil war spills beyond its borders and threatens to engulf the region.”

Instead of explaining what’s likely going on, managed news misreporting like the above substitutes.

Intelligence head of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, General Wissam al-Hasan, was killed. He appeared the likely target. He was the most high-profile death since former prime minister Rafiq Hariri’s 2005 assassination. More on him below, what’s really going on, and what’s at stake.

At least seven others died. Information Minister Walid Daouk said 86 people were wounded. Buildings were heavily damaged.

A follow-up Times report headlined “After Attack, Lebanese Opposition Calls for New Government,” saying:

Opposition pro-Western March 14 alliance officials called for “the Hezbollah-led government to resign….intensifying fears that Syria’s ‘civil war’ could lead to a political crisis in Lebanon.”

Again, dubious reporting substituted for explaining things correctly. Syria was invaded. Washington bears full responsibility. Fighting since winter 2011 reflects nothing civil. Saying so is false and misleading.

Rafiq Hariri’s son Saad heads the pro-Western March 14 alliance. Hezbollah, the Amal Movement, the Free Patriotic Movement, Progressive Socialists, and other political groups comprise the March 8 alliance majority.

Washington and Israel want March 14 extremists replacing it. Killing al-Hasan appears intended for that purpose. It also advances the ball for full-scale NATO intervention in Syria.

The regional pot keeps boiling dangerously. The Western media add more heat. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wants America openly involved in arming Free Syrian Army (FSA) death squads.

Headlining “Rethinking Syria Policy,” he called for all-out US support. He played the jihadist terrorists/Syrian chemical weapons card threat.

He spent time in Syria. He met with FSA commanders. They’re “solid military leaders,” he said. They need more guns and money, he added. Pile it on, he recommends.

“The Free Syrian Army has a long shopping list.” He named enough to blow up half the country. Washington doesn’t “have to sign off on this whole war chest….” Just enough for greater conflict to topple Assad.

Mossad-connected DEBKAfile (DF) threw its own fuel on the fire. It pointed fingers the wrong way. It headlined “Syria, Iran, Hizbollah attack while US and Israel play (earlier planned) computerized war games,” saying:

The East Beirut Ashrafiya district bombing “marked the brutal spillover of the Syrian bloodbath into a second Arab capital and the threat of its spread towards Israel.”

Blaming Syria, Iran and Hezbollah is spurious. On October 20, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) headlined “Russia, Iran Condemn Beirut Terrorist Blast,” saying:

Moscow’s Foreign Ministry said “Russia expresses solidarity with Lebanon and support to its sovereignty, territorial integrity and stability based on a Lebanese national dialogue.” It added:

“What happened showed once again the importance of stopping the activities of destructive forces that are trying to drown the Middle East in chaos and sedition.”

Iran’s Foreign Ministry also condemned the blast. It said “the Zionist entity is the beneficiary of instability in Lebanon.”

On October 19, Press TV said Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told his Lebanese counterpart, Adnan Mansour, that “enemies seek to increase insecurity in the region and achieve their ill intentions.”

Tehran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said “the attack aimed to sow discord among different currents and social classes in Lebanon.”

Reuters quoted Syria’s Information Minister Omran Zoabi saying, “We condemn this terrorist explosion and all these explosions wherever they happen. Nothing justifies them.”

DEBKAfile claimed General al-Hasan “uncovered a Syrian plot to destabilize Lebanon by a bombing campaign….” Pro-Assad politician and former information minister Michel Samaha was arrested “for complicity in the plot.”

“The Syrian bloodbath is spreading more malignantly than ever with solid Iranian and Hizballah support and Tehran is closer than ever to realizing its nuclear aspirations.”

All of the above doesn’t wash. More spurious accusations followed. DF often reports inaccurately. This account was one of its worst. It was straight out of Mossad’s propaganda playbook. Charges were laughable on their face.

Syria, Iran and Hezbollah have everything to lose and nothing to gain from Friday’s blast. Israel, Washington, key NATO partners, and regional allies benefit greatly from further instability and conflict.

Killing al-Hasan looks very much like Hariri 2.0. Compelling visual and audio evidence identified Israel as likely responsible. Real time intercepted Israeli aerial surveillance footage showed routes Hariri took on the day his motorcade was attacked. That and more pointed fingers the right way.

Initially, Syria was falsely blamed. Hezbollah was then wrongfully accused. The assassination was typical Mossad. Killing al-Hasan looks like its latest false flag.

Press TV interviewed political analyst Ralph Schoenman. He said:

“As 1992 to today in the day bombing of Beirut the identical scenario, who benefits from attempting to divide Lebanon and spread the turmoil, who benefits destabilizing the government in Damascus, who states to destabilize Beirut and subject Lebanon to civil war, the Zionist regime (Israel), the Mossad. It is a classical operation of Mossad.”

It’s hard disagreeing. Mossad’s entire history reflects targeted killings, false flags, and other destabilizing acts. CIA elements operate the same way.

Take nothing about these incidents at face value. Look deeper for more likely explanations than what media scoundrels and other dubious sources provide.

Washington and key allies want the last independent Arab nations destabilized, toppled, and reinvented into pro-Western ones. Ousting Assad and Hezbollah are key objectives. So is isolating Iran ahead of focusing full attention on regime change in Tehran by any means including war.

The Levant is in serious crisis. Tinderbox best describes things. Aggressors are playing with fire. Everyone may end up burned. Regional war is overreach. It assures losers, not winners.

Drawing a red line on Syria is top priority. It’s up to Russia, China and other anti-war nations to make clear they’ll tolerate no more.

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