Lebanon Update: Druze Throw in the Towel

3 days ago, I said that things were happening fast in Lebanon. What an understatement.

The Druze villages in the Shouf mountains east of Beirut (1) include highly strategic places as Alei (2, in above map) and Bahamdoun (3) which control the Beirut-Damascus highway (4). Walid Jumblatt's Druze militia men are tough cookies, but they're down on a ten-count in the very first round of fighting with Hizbulla. It's hard to overestimate the significance of the recent Hizbulla victories. Nasrallah is now the man not only in the south of Lebanon, but in central Lebanon, the Shouf mountains, the Bekaa valley, and Beirut.

Hizbulla's forces are no longer a street gang of frenzied dudes from the Imam's Friday speech in the mosque. They are highly (Syrian and/or Iranian) trained and gung ho, with a more-than-itchy trigger finger on missiles aimed at Israel.

Anti-Syrian Saad al-Hariri, the leader of Lebanon's ruling coalition, today vowed not to surrender, but his rhetoric is a rubber check with insufficient clout.

Israel's anti-emuna leadership is so busy playing cat-and-mouse with the anti-corruption squads of the police that they're not paying sufficient attention to what's coming down in Lebanon.

One fact of life encourages me: a seed decays before it germinates. A new vibrant country of emuna will sprout from the moral and ethical decay of corrupt and self-serving leaders. More and more people are turning to Hashem. Moshiach will win his battles without firing a shot.