Archive for January, 2008
A wonderful day in the neighborhood
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, January 17, 2008
“Good fences make good neighbors,” the American poet Robert Frost once wrote, and he oughta know. The failed farmer turned schoolteacher was a professional Puritan who spent his lifetime not hugging people, though he is now described as one of America’s “most beloved poets”. That is to say: […]
Posted: January 27th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Israel, Mark Perry, Syria.
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Nasrallah forecasts the prospect of coming conflict
On January 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech celebrating the death anniversary of Shi’i Imam Al-Husayn. The following is the text of the speech carried by Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV. The text is reprinted here with permission from and thanks to Mideastwire.
“Esteemed scholars, brothers and sisters…I would like to […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2008 under Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria.
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Dependency politics
By Alastair Crooke, Bitter Lemons, January 3, 2008
“I can’t see what more the international community can do to help,” the exasperated official in Brussels complained as she contemplated the likelihood of a further postponement of Lebanon’s presidential election. Many envoys indeed are involved with “helping” Lebanon but it seems that for presidents George W. Bush […]
Posted: January 6th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Middle East.
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