Qifa Nabki
Lebanon
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
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
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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