Jerusalem News (10 September, 2014, 15 Elul, 5774)
Hizbollah menaces Israel from Lebanon. Assad in Syria with his moon-worshipping Allawi sect menaced by everyone else. 11 million refugees in Syria meaning half the population.
Duration: 8.28 minutes
Contents:
1. Israel preparing for 'very violent' war against Hezbollah, TV report says
2. 14 Million Refugees Make the Levant Unmanageable by David P. Goldman
3. Proverbs 20: 25-27Â Honor Your Divine Soul!
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1. Israel preparing for 'very violent' war against Hezbollah, TV report says
Source: Times of Israel.    Article date: September 6th, 2014
https://www.google.co.il/?gws_rd=ssl#q=http:%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Fisrael-preparing-for-very-violent-war-against-hezbollah-tv-report-says%2F
Excerpts:
Just 10 days after a ceasefire ended a 50-day Israel-Hamas conflict, the Israeli army is 'making plans and training' for 'a very violent war' against Hezbollah in south Lebanon, an Israeli TV report said Friday night, without specifying when this war might break out.
The report, for which the army gave Israel's Channel 2 access to several of its positions along the border with Lebanon, featured an IDF brigade commander warning that such a conflict 'will be a whole different story' from the Israel-Hamas conflict in which over 2,000 Gazans (half of them gunmen according to Israel) and 72 Israelis were killed. 'We will have to use considerable force' to quickly prevail over the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, 'to act more decisively, more drastically,' said Colonel Dan Goldfus, commander of the 769th Hiram Infantry Brigade.
The report said Hezbollah has an estimated 100,000 rockets - 10 times as many as were in the Hamas arsenal - and that its 5,000 long-range missiles, located in Beirut and other areas deep inside Lebanon, are capable of carrying large warheads (of up to 1 ton and more), with precision guidance systems, covering all of Israel.
Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system would not be able to cope with that kind of challenge, and thus the IDF would have to 'maneuver fast' and act forcefully to prevail decisively in the conflict, Goldfus said.
Goldfus said it might be necessary to evacuate the civilian residents of the area.
He said that anyone who thought Hezbollah was in difficulties because it has sustained losses fighting with President Bashar Assad in Syria is mistaken. The report noted, indeed, that Hezbollah has now accumulated three years of battlefield experience, and has greater military capabilities and considerable confidence as a consequence.
The report said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2012 that, in a future war against Hezbollah, Israel would have to hit homes in villages across southern Lebanon from which Hezbollah would seek to launch rockets into Israel.
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2. 14 Million Refugees Make the Levant Unmanageable
http://www.meforum.org/4800/14-million-refugees-make-the-levant-unmanageable
by David P. Goldman
PJ Media
September 8, 2014
Extracts:
There are always lunatics lurking in the crevices of Muslim politics prepared to proclaim a new caliphate; there isn't always a recruiting pool in the form of nearly 14 million displaced people (11 million Syrians, or half the country's population, and 2.8 million Iraqis, or a tenth of the country's population). ... A new UN study, though, claims that half of Syrians are displaced. Many of them will have nothing to go back to. When people have nothing to lose, they fight to the death and inflict horrors on others.
That is what civilizational decline looks like in real time. The roots of the crisis were visible four years ago before the so-called Arab Spring beguiled the foreign policy wonks. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrian farmers already were living in tent camps around Syrian cities before the Syrian civil war began in April 2011. Israeli analysts knew this. In March 2011 Paul Rivlin of Tel Aviv University released a study of the collapse of Syrian agriculture, widely cited in Arab media but unmentioned in the English language press...
The Arab states are failed states, except for the few with enough hydrocarbons to subsidize every facet of economic life. Egypt lives on a$15 billion annual subsidy from the Gulf states and, if that persists, will remain stable if not quite prosperous. Syria is a ruin, along with large parts of Iraq. The lives of tens of millions of people were fragile before the fighting broke out (30% of Syrians lived on less than $1.60 a day), and now they are utterly ruined. The hordes of combatants displace more people, and these join the hordes, in a snowball effect. That's what drove the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648, and that's what's driving the war in the Levant.
...ISIS is overrated. A terrorist organization that beheads Americans and posts the video needs to be annihilated, but this is not particularly difficult. The late Sam Kinison's monologue on world hunger is to the point: they live in a desert. They may be hard to flush out of towns they occupy, but they cannot move from one town to another in open ground if warplanes are hunting them. That is what America and its allies should do.
More dangerous is Iran, as Henry Kissinger emphasized in a recent interview with National Public Radio. Iran's backing for the Assad regime's ethnic cleansing of Syrian Sunnis set the refugee crisis in motion, while the Iraqi Shi'ites' alliance with Iran persuaded elements of Saddam Hussein's military to fight for ISIS. Iran can make nuclear weapons and missiles; ISIS cannot. If we had had the foresight to neutralize Iran years ago, the crisis could have been managed without the unspeakable humanitarian cost.
... In practice, a great deal of the killing will be done by Iran and its allies: the Iraqi Shi'a, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Assad regime in Syria. It will be one of the most disgusting and disheartening episodes in modern history and there isn't much we can do to prevent it.
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Proverbs 20: 25-27 Â Honor Your Divine Soul!
25 It is a snare for one to say rashly, 'It is holy',
  and begin to reflect only after making a vow.
The upshot of this is not to make rash judgments whose effects may be irrevocable.
26 A wise king winnows the wicked,
  and drives the wheel over them.
Good government eliminates corruption and crime. There is no evading it. Bad eggs need to be dealt with. Evil practices must be stopped. The wise king represents those responsible for the well-being of society. They have an obligation to ensure equity for all.
27 The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord,
  searching every inmost part.
The words translated here as " The human spirit" in Hebrew are Nishmat-Adam i.e. the Soul (Neshamah) of Man.
We are own judges. God wants us to be good for our own good.
We all have subconscious desires and instincts.
Some of these may not be the most desirable.
We should be aware of this. Not hide from it.
Being aware however does not mean telling all and sundry our private yearnings.
Some things are best dealt with alone despite what others say.