Archive for the 'Lebanon' Category

An Iran on the Mediterranean?

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

I wrote a reply to a friend of mine about Lebanon and figured I might as well publish an edited version here. My issues, as always, comes from how Lebanon’s problems (that is to say the government and the opposition) are portrayed in the media. From here it all looks very simple: The freely-elected and […]

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The mess that is Lebanon

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

For those who feel like reading a simple and good article about what has actually been going on in Lebanon over the past ten days, should read the linked article written by the Syrian analyst Sami Mobayed. Forget all the nonsense in the headline-driven media about Hizbollahstan and coups.
http://www.mideastviews.com/articleview.php?art=318

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Gearing up for war II

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

From Syriacomment
“Policy Brief” by Alistair Crooke, circulated by the U.S./Middle East Project, of which Henry Siegman is the Director
TICKING CLOCKS AND ‘ACCIDENTAL’ WAR
BY ALASTAIR CROOKE *
9 October 2007
Editor: Robert Malley
In an article in Salon.com on 19 September, Steven Clemons describes a debate at a recent Washington dinner party attended by eighteen persons at which […]

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Syria, Libanon og Japangudhjelpemeg

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Heisann
Da var jeg paa plass i Tartous, der jeg har tenkt til (inshallah) aa
vaere
fram til midten av desember. Det har vaert litt hektisk de siste to
dagene
siden jeg kom fordi jeg har styret med aa finne leilighet og slikt, men
naa
har i det minste det gaatt i boks (haaper jeg), selv om det ble litt
dyrere
enn jeg hadde […]

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