Word: beirutization
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...Mabhouh case now has Hamas officials vowing revenge - after months of an uneasy truce between Hamas and Israel. Talks between Israel and Hamas over a prisoner swap to free captured Israeli Gilad Shalit are effectively dead, a Hamas official in Beirut told TIME. If a unilateral Israeli operation like this - or an air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities - ends up increasing the risks for American soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan, the U.S. public's romance with Israel may finally begin to sour...
...With reporting by Rami Aysha / Beirut...
With our hopes high and confidence higher, we walked into the foyer. A few guys were playing Beirut in one room while a handful of others were idling by the stairs. The turnout was surprisingly scarce, but we now had a more urgent problem: our friend C. had elusively disappeared into the skimpy pockets of people and become our night’s Waldo...
...ambassador is recognition of a new spirit of partial cooperation from Damascus. Since the waning days of the Bush era, Syria has helped tighten its border with Iraq to prevent jihadists from crossing; it has for the first time recognized Lebanon's sovereignty by opening an embassy in Beirut (Damascus has traditionally regarded its neighbor as a Syrian province illegitimately turned into a separate entity by France in the wake of World War I); and it has regularly called for direct peace talks with Israel. The reappointment of an ambassador would be of a piece with the Obama Administration...
...Beirut, Lebanon, and Eliot House