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Tag: lebanon
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I am delighted to discover that arabist.net has Jamaican readers. One of them, Jamzen, sent in this YouTube video about the recent war in Lebanon:
Very catchy tune.
Israel to lift blockade
Al-Jazeera has just reported that: “Israel says it will lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon on Thursday evening.”
European military buildup in the Mediterranean
My friend Ryan O’Kane sent me this interesting piece from Debka Files, a security website with close ties to Israeli intelligence circles.
“Lebanese Security� Is the Pretext for the Naval Babel around Lebanon’s Shores
Baheyya on national security and domestic dissent
A must read….
The good, the bad … and the leftovers
Lewis Lapham, erstwhile editor of Harper’s, is back after a couple of issues off with a classic lead editorial on the profitable business that is war in Iraq, George Galloway is sucking wind in the Guardian and Nassrallah calls on the anti-imperialist workers of the world to unite… or did he?
The Lapham piece, unfortunately, isn’t online, and I’m not in the mood to retype the whole thing for the benefit of those who won’t fork out the measly fifteen bucks a year for the world’s best magazine– well, one of them anyway–but I will offer a couple of teaser quotes.
“For the friends of the free market operating in Iraq it doesn’t matter who gets killed or why; everyday is payday, and if from time to time events take a turn for the worst … back home in America with the flags and the executive compensation packages, the stock prices of our reliably patriotic corporations rise with the smoke from the car bombs exploding in Ramadi and Fallujah.�
Life goes on
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A wedding in a bombed-out neighborhood in Southern Lebanon.Interview with Kefaya activist
The Arab Ché
(Via The Blubbering Corner)
These posters are circulating the Arab cyberspace, depicting Hizbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah as the new Ché Guevara.
Black humor
No prizes for guessing where this is.