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...although it’s actually quite striking, even in today’s asymmetric warfare, how much people on opposite sides are speaking the same language. You saw that in the conflict in Lebanon last summer, where both Hezbollah and the Israelis were citing UN Security Council resolutions, and were claiming that tactics used on the other side were “disproportionate” or “not necessary.” They had very different understandings of what those words meant, and they were citing very different Security Council resolutions, but they were all playing...
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world
...State Department official defended U.S. policy in Lebanon, while some audience members said that the Bush administration hadn’t done enough to promote peace in the region, in a videoconference discussion hosted by the Institute of Politics (IOP) Friday. The videoconference featured Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the director of the State Department’s Office of Egypt and the Levant, whose purview includes Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. In Washington, D.C. at the time of the conference, she spoke with students and faculty using telecommunications equipment recently acquired by the IOP. Abercrombie-Winstanley, who headed the U.S. task force...
...serious offenses ever leveled against a serving high-ranking Israeli politician. And it means Olmert, his administration already in turmoil, must now contend with the eruption of another in a series of scandals that - although this one is not of his making - together with the ongoing fallout of the Lebanon war are eroding public faith in Israeli leadership...
...Olmert's management of the Lebanon War continues to be intensely criticized. The main plank of his election campaign - the promise to withdraw roughly one third of West Bank settlers and the consolidation of the rest behind an expanded security barrier - has been put in the deep freeze by the crises in Lebanon and Gaza. Questions have arisen about the propriety of a real estate deal he made years ago. And he's generating further controversy by seeking to bolster his shaky ruling coalition through courting a far-right political faction leader, Avigdor Lieberman, who has called for the forced...