Word: hizballah
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...next in line to take a bullet for the Lebanon fiasco. Olmert will be glad to see him go; according to an opinion poll last week, Peretz's approval rating hit bottom at 1%, a fallout over the military's inconclusive war against the Lebanese Shi'ite militia, Hizballah. (Olmert's own approval rating, of course, is only...
...view of Rice as being detached from the realities on the ground is underscored by a Palestinian professor who had previously dealt with Rice: "She thinks of big issues as small ones,? he says. "She believed that Israelis could wipe out Hizballah, and she believes - mistakenly - that Abbas can wipe out Hamas from Gaza and the West Bank...
...Yeah. We don't want them to become the kind of regional - the kind of regional challenge that they could become. They're a pretty bad regional already. But over time, if they're - you know, their arms and legs, Hizballah, even now links into Hamas, the ability to have nefarious intellects in Iraq. They're going to have influence in on Iraq - Iraq's neighbors. That's not (inaudible.) But the kind of influence that destabilizing their and their ability to marry that with a nuclear weapon suggests to me that it's quite a big problem...
...fact that a movie satirizing anti-Semitism opened around the same time that Hizballah launched a campaign of protests to bring down the Lebanese government is surely mere coincidence, and not evidence of a subtle Hollywood-Jewish plot to undermine the Islamist group's anti-Israel agenda. Nevertheless, it remains remarkable that Borat played in Lebanon...
...could just as likely be the high water mark in a Weimar-like interregnum before the forces of reaction and intolerance reassert themselves. Outside of the theaters, Lebanese society is in the midst of a sense of humor failure. When a Lebanese television comedy show poked fun at Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah last year, his followers rioted, cutting off the road from Beirut airport. And with Hizballah firmly ensconced in central Beirut, no one dares laugh at the Sheik...