Saturday 10th May 2008
Sources report that Hezballah’s advance on two key Lebanese locations on Sat. 10th May had immediate effect on the strategic balance between the Iran-backed Shiite group and Israel; and also Sidon in the south, Lebanon’s second largest city, which provides Hezballah with control of a long continuous coastal strip from its southern Beirut district all the way to Tyre.
The second point is on the northern slopes of the Hermon range. After Hezballah seizes control of this enclave and the Syrian 10th and 14th armored divisions step over the border into Lebanon, the two forces can join to form a strong military frontline facing Israel near the Litany River. Sources report that the vanguard of the 10th Division has already moved across to the Lebanese side of the border.
Hezballah’s victory in taking over western and central Beirut therefore has had the effect of adding another link to the pro-Iranian chain encircling Israel. In many ways it is a more damaging setback for Israel’s national security than the Palestinian Hamas' seizure of the Gaza Strip
Yet Israel’s prime minister, defense minister, and foreign minister are all too busy with the political fallout of the bribery case against Ehud Olmert to lift a finger to arrest Lebanon’s reduction or conversion to an Iranian satellite state before it is too late; any more than Hamas was stopped from becoming a major military menace.
Equally inert are the two presidents of the USA and France who have pledged support for the Saniora regime and The UN and the UNSC which maintain 15,000 armed peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, backed by marine forces off the shores of Beirut, and who have no thought of stopping the Iranian-Syrian-backed terrorist militia from capturing Lebanon.
And most inert of all is The Arab League of Notions who might be thinking: Better Lebanon than us, but who don’t know that: If Lebanon goes, they will follow sooner or later, because Iran is paving the way for the return of the Mahdi and the setting up of Iran’s version of A UNITED STATES OF SHIITE ISLAM!