Qifa Nabki
Israel
The Archipelago of Eastern Palestine
Strange Maps has a hi-res version of the brilliant aquatic visual metaphor of West Bank ghettoization. Read the introduction there, as well as Helena Cobban‘s useful commentary. Apparently, the response of pro-Israel pundits to this map is that it is anti-Semitic because it implicitly suggests that the Jews should be driven into the sea. Strange … Continue reading
Lebanese Armed Forces Unveil High-Tech Secret Weapon for Busting Israeli Spy Cells
This just in! Naharnet reports: “The number of Israel-linked cells that security forces discovered in the past two months rose to six as head of the Internal Security Forces, Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi said the ISF made the strongest security strike against the Mossad. Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat said that 17 people were arrested in the … Continue reading
Failure to Coordinate Grand Gesture Ends in Embarrassment for Israel, Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Fresh on the heels of a regional summit in Doha where President Bashar al-Assad had reaffirmed his support for resistance against Israel while expressing reservations about the Arab Peace Initiative, the Syrian president dropped a bombshell by embarking on an epoch-making visit to Tel Aviv, Wednesday morning. “Nobody saw this coming,” … Continue reading
Sy Says Syria’s Serious
Once upon a time there lived a legendary journalist named Sy Hersh, who wrote for The New Yorker, won five George Polk Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. His coverage of Lebanon, particularly in the period 2006-07, uncovered American complicity in Israel’s premeditated war on Hizbullah and American-Saudi-March 14 complicity in the Fatah al-Islam phenomenon. These … Continue reading
A Lebanon Accountability Act?
The following commentary was written by AIG, a reader of this blog. The post originated as a challenge from me to him, in the context of a discussion about the U.S. government’s likely response to a March 8th win in Lebanon’s upcoming elections. I told AIG that if he wanted to write a post arguing … Continue reading
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