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Tag Archives: Hizbullah
Waking from the Oslo Dream
Guardian- 01/05/2002 Israel is at war. The brief respite afforded by operation Defensive Shield ended with the killings at Adura. As I write, Israeli forces are in Hebron. Here in Jerusalem, once again, the streets are emptying. Tension, fear in … Continue reading
This War’s real Masters
Guardian- 14/07/2006 The kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hizbullah on the Israel-Lebanon border and the killing of eight others was an unprovoked act of war. Israel is now involved in a two-front confrontation with well-armed Islamist organisations that have … Continue reading
A Political Earthquake
Guardian- 02/05/2007 We knew that the Winograd report, investigating the failures during last summer’s war with Hizbullah, would be critical of Israel’s political and military leadership. But no one here in Israel expected a political earthquake of this magnitude. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Amir Peretz, Ehud Olmert, Hamas, Hizbullah, Kadima, Tsipi Livni, Winograd report
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Lebanon – a Return to Civil War?
Jerusalem Post- 02/02/2008 The recent killing of Captain Wissam Eid of the Lebanese Internal Security Force, and the shooting deaths of eight Shi’ite rioters – including four Hizbullah supporters – at the Mar Mikhael intersection in southern Beirut last week … Continue reading
Nasrallah’s Existential Dilemmas
Jerusalem Post- 25/02/2008 In a speech last week broadcast at the Sayed al-Shohada Mosque in south Beirut, Hizbullah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah promised his supporters that Israel’s ‘disappearance’ was an ‘established fact.’ The Hizbullah leader railed from his unknown hiding … Continue reading
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Tagged Fuad Saniora, Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah, Iran, Michel Aoun, Mughniyeh
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A Question of Power
Jerusalem Post- 10/05/2008 The recent events in Beirut pose a simple, fundamental question: Who rules in Lebanon? The answer proposed by Hizbullah last week is that the government of Fuad Saniora and Saad Hariri is to be permitted to hold … Continue reading
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Tagged Beirut, Fuad Saniora, Hizbullah, Iran, Lebanon, Rafik Hariri, Walid Jumblatt
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Fortress Gaza
Jerusalem Post- 02/07/2008 Since the agreement on the tahadiyeh (lull) was reached between Hamas and Israel on June 19, the border crossings between Israel and Gaza have already been closed six times in response to Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli officials … Continue reading
The End of Lebanese factional Fighting?
Jerusalem Post- 25/06/2008 A month ago, a deal was signed between the Lebanese government and opposition in the Qatari capital of Doha. The deal ended two weeks of fighting that saw the Shi’ite Hizbullah and its allies occupying West Beirut. … Continue reading
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Tagged al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Doha, Fuad Saniora, Hizbullah, Iraq, Lebanon, Saad Hariri, Salafi
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Hizbullah won’t stop at Shaba
Jerusalem Post-18/06/2008 Israel’s announcement of a willingness for peace talks with Lebanon is one of the early fruits of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s recent visit to the region and her unexpected visit to Lebanon. French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Condoleezza Rice, Fuad Saniora, Galilee, Hizbullah, Iran, Lebanon, Shaba
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We’ll take the Dowry – You keep the Bride
Jerusalem Post- 31/07/2008 A fourth round of indirect talks between Syrian and Israeli representatives was concluded in Istanbul this week and as the Turkish mediators kept themselves in shape conveying messages between the hotel rooms of the two countries’ delegations, … Continue reading
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Tagged Damascus, Hariri, Hizbullah, Iran, Syria, Walid Muallem
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