[AFRICANEWS] Rwanda has been urged by La Belle France to end "all support" for M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC). Gay Paree made the call Tuesday on "Rwanda to cease all support for the M23 and to withdraw from Congolese territory". The Quai d'Orsay in communique said it was "very concerned by the situation in the East, particularly around Goma and Saké". **
The communiqué added that "attacks on the territorial integrity of the DRC are inadmissible" and that the "M23 must cease fighting immediately, and withdraw from all areas it occupies".
La Belle France's statement came ahead of the United States warning about the situation. At a meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday evening, the US had warned Rwanda and the DRC that they "must walk back from the brink of war".
"The international community must take immediate steps to stop the fighting in the eastern DRC and de-escalate tensions between the DRC and Rwanda," said Robert Wood, Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the UN.
This follows the warning of last Saturday, when the US condemned the escalation of violence attributed to the M23 rebels. The State Department also called for the withdrawal of the Rwandan army and asked Kigali to "withdraw its surface-to-air missile systems, which threaten the lives of civilians, UN force soldiers and humanitarian workers".
Rwanda has rejected the call and accussations. A Rwanda foreign ministry statement said its troops are defending Rwandan territory as Congo carries out a "dramatic military build-up" near the border.
The ministry spoke of threats to Rwandan national security stemming from the presence in Congo of an gang whose members include alleged perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them were killed.
The rebel group, known by its initials FDLR, "is fully integrated into" the Congolese army, the statement said. Although Rwanda has long cited a threat posed by FLDR, authorities there had never admitted to a military presence in eastern Congo.
Congolese authorities accuse the central African country of actively supporting M23.
Congo's U.N. Ambassador Zenon Ngay Mukongo urged the Security Council to demand that Rwanda withdraw its troops from the country without pre-conditions, and halt all support for M23.
He accused Rwanda's army of illegally occupying part of the eastern province of North Kivu, and of providing support to M23 to destabilize Congo and "to pillage our riches, our wealth in ore and minerals" in the east.
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[AFRICANEWS] The prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, resigned on Tuesday triggering the dissolution of his government, the presidency said in a statement.
Lukonde handed his resignation to President Felix Tshisekedi eight days after the validation of his mandate as a national deputy.
He plans to join parliament, after being elected in the country’s December polls as a member of the assembly representing the Kasenga district.
It is a legal requirement in the DRC that serving ministers are not members of parliament, which means one has to choose whether to remain a politician or quit to remain in government.
In a second statement on Tuesday, the presidency said it had called on Lukonde’s government to continue running the country until the formation of a new administration.
Lukonde was appointed prime minister in February 2021, at the age of 43, following the break-up of the alliance between Tshisekedi’s coalition and that of former president, Joseph Kabila.
After Tshisekedi was re-elected in December, he named a representative to identify a majority coalition within the National Assembly in view of forming his next government.
According to the provisional results which must be confirmed by the Constitutional Court, the parties supporting Tshisekedi won almost 94 per cent of the seats in the assembly.
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President Tinubu's Wife, Remi Deserves To Be Killed By Muslims For Being Leader Of Infidels, Says Islamic Cleric | Sahara Reporters pic.twitter.com/FisCQ5Xp24
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Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu GCFR (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician who is the 16th and current president of Nigeria. He was the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The leader of the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i revolution, Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... , said on Thursday that "the American enemy is trying to distort Yemen’s position with its ridiculous propaganda at the media level, with the aim of disrupting Yemen’s naval operations in support of the Paleostinian people."
In his speech on Thursday, Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi spoke against the campaign that aims to undermine Yemen’s operations in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea against ships linked to the Israeli occupation.
Sayyid Abdul-Malik explained that "the distorted propaganda begins with the American and British media and is then repeated by Arab media figures and some of the country’s traitorous mercenaries, who have become pure, specialized mouthpieces for the American benefit, repeating propaganda to distort every effort in support of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ."
He pointed out that some of the mercenaries who fought "Ansarallah" had and still have honorable positions towards the events in Gaza, and these people are rational and have some conscience left that moves them in the right direction.
The leader of the revolution said that there are attempts to incite "a takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... tone to stir up sectarian strife and highlight problems among the nation to overshadow the events in Gaza," noting that one of the most ridiculous new American propaganda is that "Yemen is blackmailing some European countries to pay royalties so that their ships can pass through the Red Sea and not be targeted."
Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi considered the propaganda of blackmailing countries "ridiculous and false, and it is part of countless lies spewed by hypocrites."
He stressed that "Yemen will provide protection for any ships carrying aid to the people of Gaza, contrary to the American propaganda."
"We are fighting the battle of the promised conquest and holy jihad for the sake of Allah, in a clean, strong, and courageous position that is admired by most free people in the world," he added.
He announced that Yemen’s military operations are continuing in constant and effective escalation, despite the hatred of the haters.
Sayyid Abdul-Malik revealed that military mobilization in Yemen through preparation and equipment is a very important issue, affirming that "the outcomes of military training amounted to 237,123 trainees as a popular army that received training, and before that, hundreds of thousands were trained appropriately."
He stated that the military parades amounted to 248 military parades, the maneuvers amounted to 566 maneuvers, and the marches amounted to 359 military marches, indicating that the popular vigils are part of the distinguished and honorable activity, which amounted to 70,670 vigils, and the awareness evenings amounted to 30,571 evenings.
The leader of the revolution stressed the great importance of activities supporting Gaza and Paleostine in spreading awareness, which amounted to 23,738 events, while the demonstrations reached 2,081 demonstrations in the provinces and districts.
Sayyid Abdul-Malik added that the process of collecting donations is continuing, and what is collected will be delivered to the delegates of the Paleostinian movements who are in Sanaa.
He pointed out that the Yemeni people presented a model and became the focus of admiration for all free people in the world.
In this regard, Sayyid Abdul-Malik praised the interaction shown by the Yemeni people towards supporting the Paleostinian people in the face of the genocide practiced by the Zionist killing machine.
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[KavkazUzel] Disagreements between refugees from Palestine are unacceptable, warned the head of the Ministry of Press of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, declaring the absence of religious movements in the republic.
The "Caucasian Knot" reported that by January 29, Chechnya had accepted 206 refugees from Palestine, local media reported on the employment of 30 of them. Most of the refugees got jobs in medical institutions, some were settled in the Gorny Klyuch camp, where displaced people from Palestine live. In a video published by the head of the Ministry of Press of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, some refugees are teaching classes in school classes. At the same time, economists interviewed by the Caucasian Knot noted that the promoted employment of 30 refugees from Palestine will not affect the labor market of Chechnya. Chechnya provides assistance to refugees on the instructions of the Kremlin, the Caucasus expert emphasized.
The head of the Ministry of Nationalities of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, reported on his visit to the Gorny Klyuch camp, where internally displaced persons from Palestine live. According to him, in parallel with the registration of the Palestinian diaspora in Chechnya, a head of the diaspora will be selected, through whom the work will be “organized,” as follows from the video published on his Telegram channel.
Dudayev noted that the Chechen authorities understand the problems of refugees from Palestine, since “the residents of our republic, about 25-30 years ago, were also forced to wander around various regions.”
Disagreements and misunderstandings among refugees are unacceptable, Dudayev said, without specifying what caused this statement. “There are no religious movements in this republic. <...> In the Chechen Republic over the past 20 years, not a single conflict on interfaith or interethnic grounds has been recorded,” he wrote in a message.
He added that during the meeting, refugees from Palestine raised issues regarding the provision of medicines and the issuance of various certificates for obtaining a residence permit.
Dudayev also reported that about 45 of the adult Palestinians have already been employed. “Today 13 displaced people went to work under the Ministry of Education,” he said in a video that was published on the evening of February 21.
According to official data, the unemployment rate in Chechnya has decreased slightly. Thus, according to Rosstat, the unemployment rate in the republic in 2023 was 10.6%, according to Chechenstat, for the same period - 7.9%. The data also differed in 2022. According to Rosstat, there were 11% unemployed in Chechnya, according to Chechenstat - 8.0%.
Dudayev also noted that preschool children are placed in kindergartens in the Shalinsky district. The construction of apartments for displaced people has already begun - a total of 35 apartments will be built, since so many refugee families have arrived in the republic, mainly large families, Dudayev emphasized.
[IsraelTimes] Federal complaint filed in Florida against news agency over its ties to freelance photojournalists accused of being embedded with Death Eaters during Hamas massacre
The organization listed four photojournalists whose names appear in News Agency that Dare Not be Named pictures from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yusef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.
A number of survivors of the Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... October 7 attack on Israel and families of victims of the unprecedented terror assault have filed a lawsuit against the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, accusing the news agency of being complicit in the Paleostinian terror group’s killing spree over four months ago by working with freelance photojournalists they believe were embedded with the thousands of Death Eaters who overran southern communities.
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The AP was informed at least five years ago that Eslaiah "was affiliated with Hamas, promoted and glorified terrorism, called for people to commit acts of violence, celebrated murders, and was even officially working for a Hamas-affiliated news station," according to the lawsuit, which was spearheaded by the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) on behalf of the terror victims.
[IsraelNationalNews] UNRWA, the UN agency for "Palestinian refugees", warned Thursday it has reached a critical juncture as it struggles to cope with the war in Gaza, AFP reported.
"It is with profound regret that I must now inform you that UNRWA has reached a breaking point," the agency’s chief Philippe Lazzarini said. You know, Philippe, somebody in UN hierarchy must really hate you - to arrange for that particular posting at that particular time.
"The Agency's ability to fulfill the mandate given through General Assembly resolution 302 is now seriously threatened," he said in a letter to the UN General Assembly, a reference to the resolution under which the agency was founded in 1949.
Israel presented evidence that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the Hamas October 7 attack on Israel. In the wake of this, the United States and a host of other countries announced they were temporarily pausing funding for UNRWA.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told foreign reporters last week that Israel has found intelligence that more than 30 of UNRWA’s employees actively participated in the massacre, and assisted in the kidnapping of civilians and soldiers.
One of the UNRWA workers involved was identified as Faisal Ali Musalem Na’ami, 45, who was photographed during the massacre abducing a body of an Israeli from Kibbutz Be’eri. He was killed in an air strike targeting his house in Nuseirat, along with five of his children and one of his wives.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it has formulated a new "security position" concerning the return of residents to communities near the border with the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, after they had been displaced following Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7 attack.
According to the IDF’s position, it is safe for residents to return to communities that are more than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the Gaza border, along with 18 communities in the 0- to 4-kilometer range.
The 18 border communities are Zikim, Karmia, Yad Mordechai, Erez, Or Haner, Ibim, Sderot, Nir Am, Gevim, Mefalsim, Sa’ad, Alumim, Reim, Magen, Nir Yitzhak, Shlomit, Naveh and Bnei Netzarim.
The IDF’s position still warns that there is "no complete absence of risks," noting that there still may be rocket fire from Gaza on border towns.
The IDF says plans to allow the return of residents to the Gaza border communities are being formulated in joint discussions between the Home Front Command and local authorities, with the decision on the timing being made individually for each locale and according to an updated situation assessment
Some residents of border communities have already returned to their homes, while many others remain in state-funded hotels or with relatives.
[IsraelTimes] Smotrich says over 3,000 units will be green-lit in Ma’ale Adumim, Kedar, Efrat as ’an appropriate Zionist response’ to deadly terror shooting, sure to anger US amid Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war
Israel will advance plans for the construction of more than 3,000 settlement homes in response to a deadly terror shooting in the West Bank, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced late Thursday night.
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Israelis were willing to sacrifice Israeli land for peace. But now, when it's clear to anybody even marginally rational, that peace is impossible...
[An Nahar] Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... on Wednesday said that his group’s "presence in the confrontation" with Israel is "what deters the enemy."
"The ceiling of the confrontation on Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s front has been limited, except for some exceptions and responses to these exceptions, but when the enemy escalates to a higher ceiling, our response will be bigger," Qassem said.
"We will not retreat on the battlefield and any development depends on the battlefield and the confrontation," Hezbollah’s number two added, noting that Hezbollah is "in the position of deterring the Israeli enemy and rejecting its schemes" while "hoping for victory."
Hezbollah has been striking at Israeli posts along the border since the Israel-Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... war broke out on October 7.
More than 200 people, the vast majority of them Hezbollah fighters, have been killed in Lebanon since the violence broke out more than four months ago. The dead include more than 20 civilians.
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[NAHARNET] Visiting the Israeli Air Force’s new giant missile-detecting balloon in northern Israel, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... ’s "equations" are "collapsing."
"The equations that Hezbollah thought it had created collapse when the Air Force and the IDF (Israeli army) decide to attack -- in Damascus, in Beirut, in Sidon, in Nabatiyeh, everywhere. They do this work and no equation stands in the way," Gallant said at the base housing the detection system, dubbed "Elevated Sensor," or "Sky Dew" in Israel.
"Every day the IDF (Israeli army) wins and Hezbollah loses. I hope there won’t be more difficult days, but if there are, you are ready," he added to the Air Force soldiers.
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[NAHARNET] Tehran has informed the relevant parties that it is "not concerned" with reconstruction operations in south Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... when the current confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah ends, a media report said.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has argued that Israel’s war machine is to blame for the destruction, Lebanon’s Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Thursday.
Tehran said that its experience during the eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s "did not lead to Iran getting compensations from the former Soviet Union after Iraq’s use of Soviet weapons back then," the daily said.
Cross-border exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah have killed at least 271 people on the Lebanese side since October 8, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians. On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.
Israel’s attacks have also caused major destruction in south Lebanon’s border towns and tens of thousands of residents have been displaced.
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[NAHARNET] Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... has received an official paper containing Gay Paree’ vision for resolving the border conflict with Israel, following the previous unofficial paper, media reports said.
"The new paper was submitted by the French embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday and is written in Arabic, French and English, knowing that the previous paper contained only an English text," the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Thursday.
"The official paper mentions the Shebaa Farms and the Kfarshouba Hills and the need to discuss their issue in the future," the daily said.
Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, who received the paper, will discuss with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati the official response that should be sent to the French side, the newspaper added.
Cross-border exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah have killed at least 271 people on the Lebanese side since October 8, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians. On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.
The fighting has also displaced tens of thousands of residents on both sides of the border and Israel has repeatedly warned that it might use force against Hezbollah to secure its residents' return.
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Unless it says Si tu veux vivre, arrête d'attaquer Israël, I don't see the point.
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If the UN presence in Lebanon was to demilitarize Lebanon south of the Litani River it has failed miserably. If Lebanon does in fact want peace with Israel then it must in fact demilitarize that region.
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...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
