Category Archives: Lebanon

Out of context

What’s missing from this AP piece on the Lebanese president insisting he won’t ask Hizballah to disarm? Lebanon’s president says the government cannot ask Hezbollah to give up its weapons at a time of heightened tension with Israel. A U.N. … Continue reading

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Your Thursday morning snark

Stop making sense, you racist! One of the drafters of the Arizona immigration law has an op-ed in the Times that points out the lies in the propaganda of the law’s opponents—including, of course, our Constitutional scholar of a president. … Continue reading

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The benefits of Israel concessions

The AP seems to think that Netanyahu has caved to Obama on a settlement freeze, but I can’t find anything in the Israeli press that confirms this (and the JPost can’t confirm it, either). (Update: Here’s the closest thing I … Continue reading

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Fisking Robert Fisk on Scuds

I normally don’t even bother reading the man whose name became the blogosphere’s first verb (“fisk”), but I was researching a post, and I came across Fisk’s take on Hizballah having Scud missiles. This is what leaped out at me: … Continue reading

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Thursday snarks

More of Obama’s outreach dividend: Hassan Nasrallah, speaking from a secure, undisclosed location, says that Israel is going to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Note the timing; tomorrow are Friday prayers for Muslims. Watch for riots. And oh, yeah—he thanked Syrian … Continue reading

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Misplaced honors

Recently there were a couple of items of how the United States is honoring (in different ways) people they shouldn’t be. Martin Kramer on the American Ambassador to Afghanistan honoring a past Afghan hero. No doubt it made diplomatic sense … Continue reading

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Pre-Snowpocalypse 2 briefs

Frozen peace: See what peace dividends bring to Egypt? The nation’s journalist’s union punished two editors for having contact with Israel. Ew, Jew cooties! That famous Muslim tolerance for other religions: Egyptian Christians are protesting for the right to build … Continue reading

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Nighttime briefs

Interpreting the Times, so you don’t have to. Shorter Gail Collins: If only ten percent get to dictated American policy, then by Gaia, it had better be the ten percent that the elites (David Brooks’ “educated class“) are in! Smells … Continue reading

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Briefly

He’s Gumby, dammit! Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath, died yesterday. I know that Davey and Goliath is Christian proselytizing, but it’s one of the shows from my childhood and I watched it every Saturday morning. Even … Continue reading

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The Turkey-Syria lovefest (and Israel hatefest)

You have to read between the lines to really appreciate what the Turkish Prime Minister is saying at this press conference. The Bashar Assad stuff, well, it’s standard Bashar bullshit. The man responsible for the iron-fisted control over Lebanon, the … Continue reading

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Watch the media spin

The AP released a brief story on the Lebanese government affirming Hezbullah’s defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 to disarm. This version holds too much of the truth in it. Prediction: Mention of 1701 will be dropped to the … Continue reading

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Lebanon’s descent

In Lebanon, the raidicals keep on strengthening their positions. Peter Berkowitz writes (via memeorandum): Six days later, on March 14, a Sunni, Christian, and Druze crowd of more than 1 million–a quarter of Lebanon’s population–shook their nation by gathering in … Continue reading

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… and creating a nuisance

Investment scandal damages Hezbollah And now, his life’s fortune is gone, too, lost along with the money of thousands of other Lebanese who put their faith in a billionaire financier with close ties to Hezbollah. The investment scheme, which is … Continue reading

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To be overlooked in the next Lebanon war

When Hizbullah attacks Israel, and Israel retaliates by bombing strategic points in the whole of Lebanon, and the world reaction is shock and disgust that Israel attacked the state of Lebanon instead of “just” Hizbullah, kindly refer back to this … Continue reading

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When smuggling arms is political

There’s an interesting tidbit in a report of the indictment of Lebanese men for smuggling arms to Hezbollah. Harb, Moussa Ali Hamdan of Brooklyn and Hasan Antar Karaki of Beirut were also charged with seeking to funnel to Hezbollah counterfeit … Continue reading

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