Prisoners in Egypt released by Hezbollah

Egypt continues to look like nothing more than a war zone out of some Hollywood action movie.

The situation has grown from bad to worse as protesters and supporters of President Mubarak took to the streets for a violent battle. Gun fire, beatings, Molotov cocktails being thrown, its pure pandemonium. Journalists and world class reporters including Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour have been in the middle of the crossfire and today, a Fox News crew were severely beaten and were taken to a hospital.

But that's not all that gone from bad to worse. Reuters reported that Hezbollah, which recently collapsed Lebanon's government, managed to help several of its members escape from prison in Egypt at the height of the chaos. In addition, thousands of other inmates were also able to escape, and with the Egyptian military and police force concentrating all of their efforts on the protests, a few of them have managed to muzzle their way back to the Gaza Strip.

Just moments ago, Ms. Amanpour, having dealt with getting attacked by the mob of protesters yesterday in Cairo, managed to finally talk with President Mubarak himself. In a ABC news exclusive, President Mubarak told Ms. Amanpour that "I'm fed up, I want to go, but if I resign today, there will be chaos..."

President Mubarak does have a point. There is no question that the people in Egypt are fed up with an authoritarian rule, but if he does cease power, this is one step further in what the Muslim Brotherhood wants, which again, is to destabilize the region and unite radical Islam to get rid of Israel.

Meanwhile, as expected, Iran is cheering for the protests in Egypt. Just like the Obama Administration is doing by the way.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the protests are a sign of "Islamic Renaissance" and that "any opposition to the movement of the Egyptian people ... will bring about the anger and hatred of all Muslims around the world..."

This is also what Iran wants and will have no problem in helping Hezbollah establish its goal here, which is to dominate the entire Middle East under an Islamic rule.

Iran backs Lebanon; asks U.S. and Israel to stop interfering

The circus in the Middle East is asking the United States and Israel to stop interference with Lebanon's recently collapsed government. When I say circus, I'm referring to the joke that is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad responded on Lebanon's situation: "I tell the Zionists and the U.S. ... be ashamed of your interference in Lebanon and be sure that the Lebanese and regional nations will chop your dirty hands off." 


He went on to say that each time the United States interferes in any country in the Middle East, it makes things much more complicated and that Lebanon can take care of itself.

This is a president that is basically for the most part, offering safe haven to the Militant Shiite group Hezbollah, which effectively collapsed Lebanon's unity government last week when its representative ministers resigned because Hezbollah remains at the top of the list of an international tribunal in the assassination of former Lebanon Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hezbollah is hoping to establish a new power in Lebanon and to possibly wage a new war on Israel sometime down the road.

Hezbollah has issued a warning that they will "cut off the hands" of anyone who blames any member of the group for Hariri assassination. But the pressure is mounting. While Lebanon's government remains ineffective for the most part, Israel is basically having to battle enemies from all sides by itself and will have one more thing to worry about if Hezbollah gets it way. On the same front, Iran has a nuclear program which is for the most part, aimed at Israel and resentment is harbored by other Middle East nations after Israel was accused of carrying out the assassination on a leader of Hamas.

Things right now in the Middle East are not at all calm. President Obama might want to start getting serious that this idea of international talks and relations is not working. The Middle East could care less about this idea of peace. They want Israel out. If the United States chooses to do nothing, that entire region of the world may become a much larger threat than was anticipated.

Hezbollah collapses Lebanon's government

Earlier this week, Lebanon's government collapsed following the resignations of 11 ministers, 10 of which were representatives of the Militant Shiite Hezbollah, which opposes the parliament. The two main reasons as to why its government collapsed is because Hezbollah is hoping to establish a new form of government without a parliamentary and it would mean no further action can take place regarding indictments in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri from 2005, which the international tribunal is investigating. By collapsing Lebanon's government, Hezbollah has effectively ceased the tribunal's investigation and indictments because wouldn't you know it, Hezbollah is at the top of the tribunal's suspect list for Hariri's assassination.

It is quite obvious what is happening here, because Hariri is the father of Lebanon's current prime minister Saad Hariri and apparent that Hezbollah is hoping to stifle his investigation and opposition of their radical agenda, and remove him from his position. With this current situation growing, some leaders are fearing that the country could lead to the brink of turmoil including violence on the streets.

Of course Lebanon has had problems like this for many years. Find any country in the Middle East that doesn't have these radical problems from militant or terrorist groups, its not necessarily "new" news. Lebanon itself has had to deal with government turmoil before, which include a laundry list of never-ending problems such as assassinations, bombings, a war with Israel and at one point, almost went to the brink of civil war back in 2008. Just about every country over there, with the exception of Israel, hates the United States and they want to kill us.

But coming to a more political standpoint, it seems completely logical to conclude that with President Obama having to deal with all of our problems here, it is the right opportunity for an issue to start over there. Lebanon, is becoming more aggressive like Iran, and they know President Obama does not want to engage in becoming the world police or having to assist in going to war. It occurs to me however, if Lebanon's new government eventually is re-established as being completely dominated by Hezbollah, could also mean another war on Israel.

You think Iran will miss out on an opportunity to help Hezbollah if they want to rage another war on Israel? I think not. So while the resentment continues to grow in the Middle East, some people in Washington right now are continuing to not pay much attention, if any, to this new development that Lebanon is functioning without a government and becoming increasingly dominated by a radical militant group, and most likely, nobody is going to admit that they'll pose as a potential threat to Israel.

But I'll say it here.