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...ancient hills of Lebanon hold little charm for Abdullah Sulhani and his family. Though they live just a bus ride away from some of the most pleasant countryside on the eastern Mediterranean, they don't dare go out for a picnic or family day trip. This is an exaggerated reading of the risks of living in Lebanon - a turbulent country no doubt, but one which, when not a war zone, is the vacation destination of choice for the Arab world. Sulhani, 85, is Palestinian, though, and his family lives in Shatila, an impoverished refugee camp on the edge of Beirut...
...time since the two countries severed diplomatic ties with the birth of the Islamic republic in 1979. Obama's foreign policy team views Tehran as both the source of and a possible solution to most of America's problems in the Middle East--from militants in Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza to what Washington believes is Tehran's secret nuclear-weapons program. At his first presidential press conference, Obama said that over many years, Iran's actions had been "unhelpful when it comes to promoting peace and prosperity." His national security team, however, was "looking at areas where we can have...
...Lieberman's surge in the polls to edge the once-dominant Labor Party out of third place reveals a deep insecurity on the part of many Israelis, who feel surrounded by implacable enemies in the form of Hamas in Gaza and Hizballah in Lebanon, both backed by a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. This fear was accentuated by Israel's 22-day offensive in Gaza, which inflicted widespread casualties among Palestinian civilians but failed to defeat Hamas or even stop the group from firing rockets into southern Israel. Nor did the assault manage to free a kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad...
...Khatami represents moderation in the Muslim world." -Lebanon's late former President, Rafik Hariri (AFP, May13...
...Israel's overwhelming firepower. By this reasoning, Israel had overinflated the Hamas threat. The militants are able to lob dozens of crude, badly aimed rockets into southern Israel, but that may be the limit of their abilities. And Israeli officials are congratulating themselves on their tactics. "Hamas and [Lebanon's] Hizballah are worried that Israel has broken the DNA code of urban fighting," says reserve Brigadier General Shalom Harari, while cautioning that Hamas' military leaders are probably already at work planning ways to block the Israeli military's next assault if fighting in Gaza breaks out again, as it undoubtedly...