Conflicts Forum

On August 14, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech marking the end of the July 2006 war. 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.
Peace be upon you as you meet in […]

By the Rt. Hon. Michael Ancram, MP, Middle East Institute, April 19, 2007
“It is often a better use of time to talk to your enemies than your friends,” so said a wise, experienced and senior Israeli to me a few weeks ago. In a similar vein last summer following the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon […]

Part three: The political war
By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, Asia Times, October 14, 2006
In the wake of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, a public poll in Egypt asked a cross-section of that country’s citizenry to name the two political leaders they most admired. An overwhelming number named Hassan Nasrallah. Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad finished second.
The poll […]

Part one: Winning the intelligence war
By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, Asia Times, October 12, 2006
Introduction
Writing five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, US military expert Anthony Cordesman published an account of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. “Preliminary Lessons of the Israeli-Hezbollah War” created enormous interest in the Pentagon, where it was studied by planners […]

Part two: Winning the ground war
By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, Asia Times, October 13, 2006
Israel’s decision to launch a ground war to accomplish what its air force had failed to do was made hesitantly and haphazardly. While Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) units had been making forays into southern Lebanon during the second week of […]

Alastair Crooke et Mark Perry, 12-14 octobre 2006
Traduit par Marcel Charbonnier et révisé par Fausto Giudice
[La victoire du Hezbollah dans son récent conflit avec Israël est beaucoup plus significative que bien des analystes, tant aux USA qu’en Europe, ne semblent en avoir pris conscience. La victoire du Hezbollah est en effet un renversement total de […]