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March 14th’s Blahbitty-Blah-Blah Electoral Program
March 14th launched its electoral campaign on March 14th with a big convention in which the coalition’s 14 leaders unveiled the 14 points of their electoral program. This was preceded by a spectacular circus act in which 14 jugglers rode around on 14-foot tall unicycles juggling 14 flaming cedar branches while Sami Gemayel’s gnarley math … Continue reading
Nasrallah’s Rhetoric Directed East or West?
Update: Joshua Landis responds to this piece; I’ve posted his comments below the article. *** I’ve got an article over at Joshua Landis’s Syria Comment. I reproduce the text below. In a speech Friday evening commemorating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, Hizbullah secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah rejected the recent American offer of dialogue along with its … Continue reading
Humorist for ‘The Onion’ Once Again Beaten to the Punch By Saudi Arabia
New York, NY — Joe Franklin, a comedic writer working for The Onion, found himself the latest victim of an uncanny trend afflicting the popular humor magazine. Franklin, who works at The Onion’s New York offices and writes political satire, had just finished a piece about a fictional 75 year-old widow in Saudi Arabia sentenced … Continue reading
Bashar: “I will work to involve Hizbullah and Hamas in the negotiations…”
I hate to say “I told you so…”, but this time I just can’t resist. Do y’all remember our lovely discussion from a few days ago, when I wrote a post about Lebanon’s role in the peace talks? The QN groupies (is it alright if I call you that?) said I was crazy to imagine … Continue reading
“It’s just a noisy hall, where there’s a nightly brawl…”
… and all that Chas. The above-the-fold story today is AIPAC’s whopping take-down of Chas Freeman as director of the National Intelligence Council. Here is some of the better commentary : Richard Silverstein in Tikun-Olam: “Freeman Withdraws: Israel Lobby 1- Obama 0” “I am sorry that Obama and Blair withdrew from the field with hardly … Continue reading
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