Si Si ("Sissy") Siniora

The Emuna News "Wimp of the Week": Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. Image courtesy of Aljazeera.net.

Things are comin' down fast on the way to Moshiach. This past Thursday night, I wrote that we can expect a civil war in Lebanon. On Shabbat, three dozen gunman were killed and wounded when street fighting broke out in Northern Lebanon.

De facto, Nasralla and his Hizbulla thugs control West Beirut. Siniora, Lebanon's CIA-puppet prime minister, had a golden opportunity to come down like a ton of bricks on Hizbulla's head, when the latter opened up their own independent and illegal nationwide telecom system. Siniora the wimp told the army to close it down. Then, in a surprising show of muscle, he fired his airport security chief Wafiq Shuqair for ties with Nasralla. Nasralla gave the whistle, and in minutes Hizbulla was all over the streets of West Beirut.

You could hear Siniora's knees knocking as far away as Ashdod today. He backed down on both showdowns with Nasralla: In an idiotic decision, Lebanese style, Siniora decided not to decide, and threw the hot potato to Lebanese Army Commander Michel Suleiman. Suleiman - a man of leisure - doesn't want his peace of mind disturbed, so he reinstated Shuqair and he decided not to interfere with Hizbulla's new telcom system. Nasralla in return has temporarily withdrawn his thugs from the streets of Beirut. As long as Suleiman is bending to Nasralla - and not to his boss Siniora - there'll be a superficial calm in Beirut.

Nasralla just might take over Lebanon without firing a shot. But, he will take it over. A spineless wimp like Siniora can't stop a Nasralla.

Funny, how all the American-puppet prime ministers capitulate to terror. This is America's war on terror? Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Lebanon are all slipping through America's fingers.

Meanwhile, radical Islam is making big headway in Egypt and Jordan. Israel in the near future will be faced with radicals on all her borders. This is simply a part of Hashem's scenario to arouse His beloved children from their spiritual slumber.

Let's not be a bunch of pleasure-seeking wimps like Siniora and Suleiman. We must be stronger in holiness than Nasralla is in evil (and he's really tough in that area). It's time for teshuva and dedication to Torah - that's the way to stand up to terror.