Hezbollah’s Nasrallah could be right http://www.youtube.com/user/Snordelhans It’s not impossible that Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was right when he described the tribunal investigating the assassination of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 as “an American and Israeli tool”. Though I myself see Israel’s military and political leaders as those with most to gain – I [...]

I think the empire’s hold on the Arab World has begun to unravel and I think we see in Tunisia the first spark of a revolution that will reshape the Arab world for the better and spell the end of repression. Here in Palestine, we face a relentless assault not only on us and our [...]

“The influence of the Likud and of its friends in Washington could be detected across the entire spectrum of American policy towards the Middle East,” writes Shlaim. By Stephen Sniegoski A friend, Phil Collier, an avid student of and sometime writer on Middle East affairs (and  a National Master in chess), recently  informed  me that [...]

For a leader who speaks eloquently about looking forward, President Obama still looks to the past, stacking his peace squad with personnel from previous Clinton and Bush administrations. There are very few signs of the “moral imagination” the President called for in Tucson. By James Wall When President Obama spoke in Tucson Wednesday night, he [...]

This week, I’d like to share my interest in writers who have brought important perspectives to one major issue: Israel and the role of America in the Middle East. Incidentally, of six of my choice authors (three here) are Jewish. In an article entitled “Weapons of mass deception“, I suggested that there has been too [...]

The sage of Lebanon, Dr. Hoss explained that a civil war is unlikely given the attitudes of the young generation and the fact that none of the sects could successfully confront the Opposition led by Hezbollah and western powers lack credibility here. Franklin Lamb’s Saturday Mideast Report — Al Manar Informed Congressional sources in Washington [...]

When it comes to parenting, the Chinese seem to produce children who display academic excellence, musical mastery and professional success… Dumbed down enough to be able to tell if the “War on Terror” which is destroying their own nation as well as other nations, is real or not? –-The Ivy League Morons Syndrome Response to [...]

I was all set to shunt Palestine into a mental siding because leadership is still lacking and so much time and effort is misdirected, unco-ordinated and wasted. Find something else to get angry about, I was telling myself. Stuart Littlewood for Veterans Today Yes, I was all set to shunt Palestine into a mental siding [...]