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Israeli planes trigger sonic booms over Lebanon in possible response to drone dispatch

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Times of Israel - Oct. 07 (News Report) - iIsraeli planes flew into Lebanese air space and broke the sound barrier Sunday, causing sonic booms, Lebanese media reported. The sortie appeared to be in response to the infiltration of Israeli air space Saturday by a drone Israeli officials suspect was launched by the Lebanon-based terror organization Hezbollah.

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Latitude: Possible Change in Lebanon's Electoral System Is Move to Address Sectarianism

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Elias Muhanna - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - The president's move to introduce proportional representation to Lebanese elections is a bold step toward dismantling political sectarianism.

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Nakba protests bring Arab spring to Israel's doorstep

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ariel Zirulnick - May. 16 (News) - The unprecedented Arab protests on Israel's borders, pegged to the 63rd anniversary of Israel's declaration of statehood, resulted in at least 10 dead and hundreds wounded. Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags during a rally marking the 63rd anniversary

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In Lebanon, Hezbollah is watching, and waiting out, the Arab uprisings

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By David Ignatius - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - Hezbollah appears to realize that the revolt sweeping the Middle East has subtly changed the game for them. Officials see the Arab world moving into a more democratic and pluralistic politics with the fall of regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and perhaps Libya. In this new environment, Hezbollah doesn't want to be seen as a sectarian militia or a wrecker, but as a democratic partner (albeit a potent one that has thousands of missiles pointed at Israel).

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Lebanon's Missing

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Photography Dalia Khamissy, Production Benjamin Chesterton - Jan. 20 (Special Report) - Photographer Dalia Khamissy attempts to uncover what happened to the thousands of people who were kidnapped during the Lebanese civil war.

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Rarity in Region, Lebanese Paper Dares to Provoke

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Robert F. Worth - Dec. 29 (News) - Earlier this month Al Akhbar became the only Arab newspaper to obtain its own substantial batch of WikiLeaks cables and gleefully cataloged various embarrassments to the region’s kings, princes and politicians.

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James Zogby: Unhelpful Provocations

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By James Zogby - Oct. 16 - In "Arab Voices" I describe Lebanon as "a tinderbox, with too many groups still playing with matches". Iranian President Ahmadinejad's visit to that dear but...

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Ahmadinejad Visits Border Area With Israel On Alert

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Radio Free Europe - Oct. 14 (News) - After a tumultuous welcome on October 13 in the capital, Beirut, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad was expected in the southern Lebanese towns of Maroon Al-Ras and Bint Jbeil, just a few hundred meters from the Israeli frontier.

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Researcher: Suicide terrorism linked to military occupation

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Laura Rozen - Oct. 11 (Research) - Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political science professor and former Air Force lecturer, will present findings on Capitol Hill Tuesday that argue that the majority of suicide terrorism around the world since 1980 has had a common cause: military occupation.

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Lebanon: Suspected spy asked to collect data on Ron Arad

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ynetnews - By Roee Nahmias - Oct. 11 (Breaking News) - Lebanese media outlets reported that one of the suspected Israeli spies recently detained by the army was allegedly asked by Israeli intelligence agencies to collect information on missing navigator Ron Arad in return for a large sum of money. According

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Talking up an attack on Tehran

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Patrick Barry - Aug. 17 (News Analysis) - War hawks are banging the drum for strikes against Iran, but the Obama administration must cleave to its policy of containment Iran policy circles are alight with reactions to an article by Jeffrey Goldberg in this month?s Atlantic that reaches a worrying conclusion: there is a better than 50% chance of an Israeli strike on Iran within the next year. Despite the provocative conclusions reached in this piece, conversation about this possibility is far from new. Whether by intention or not, Goldberg?s article dovetails neatly with a campaign by American war hawks and neoconservatives to push for, if not an American military strike on Iran, an Israeli one. Last month, Reuel Marc Gerecht wrote that an Israeli attack on Iran?s nuclear facilities ...

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Is the U.S. Pursuing the Wrong Mideast Peace Process?

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:42:02 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 12 - The recent skirmish on the Israel-Lebanon border has amplified fears that the Middle East could be on the brink of another war. So the fact that U.S. Special Envoy Senator George Mitchell arrived in Israel this week hoping to restart peace talks ought

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Tensions Flare Along Israel's Borders

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Lourdes Garcia Navarro - Aug. 07 (News Report) - Israel's long hot summer is becoming increasingly tense. Over the past 10 days there have been three serious incidents — two separate attacks on Israel's southern border and clashes in the north with the Lebanese army.

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Robert Fisk: Israel-Lebanon tensions flare after skirmish leaves four dead

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Robert Fisk - Aug. 04 (Opinion) - Can a tree start a Middle East war? It almost did yesterday. That such a question can be asked is a symbol of the incendiary state of the region, the mutual distrust of Arabs and Israelis, and the dangerous border of southern Lebanon which was – as so often – drenched in blood yesterday, the blood of three Lebanese soldiers, an Israeli lieutenant-colonel and a Lebanese journalist outside an otherwise nondescript village called Addaiseh.

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Israel to Deploy Hi-Tech Anti-Rocket System

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:59:56 -0700

Voice of America - Jul. 20 - This picture provided by the Israeli Defense Ministry on 6 Jan 2010 and made within 48 hours of release, shows a rocket fired from the "Iron Dome" system during a test in southern Israel Israel's new anti-rocket system, called the Iron Dome, has passed

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Right Wing Thought Police - An Analysis

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Lawrence Davidson - Jul. 10 (Opinion) - Lawrence Davidson writes: 'The American right wing is achieving its long-term goal of becoming the nation's thought police. They are realizing this goal through the timeless practices of extremists (be they on the right or the left, religious or secular), which are intimidation, slander and harassment.' Lawrence Davidson, Reader Supported News

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Online Praise for a Cleric Draws Fire, Again

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robert Mackey - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - A British diplomat's words of praise for a Lebanese cleric who inspired the founders of Hezbollah disappeared from her blog on Friday after Israel's foreign ministry expressed outrage.

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The Sheikh Who Got Away

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By David Kenner - Jul. 06 (Special Report) - How the United States got Lebanon's leading Shiite cleric dead wrong -- and missed a chance to change the Middle East forever.

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How a negotiated peace could leave Afghanistan looking like Lebanon

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Daniel Serwer - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - ... even if the United States and its coalition allies can succeed this summer in clearing a town like Kandahar of Taliban fighters, there is no one to hold the terrain, build the necessary institutions or accept responsibility once the military has completed its work. This spring's experiment in clearing Marja, where Taliban fighters have been leaking back in, has demonstrated how difficult the task is likely to be in Kandahar.

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Fears of West Bank deportations

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 12 (News Report) - Israel is set to impose a military order which could see tens of thousands of Palestinians deported from the occupied West Bank. The order, which comes into force on Tuesday, could have "severe ramifications" for people in the West Bank human

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A New Middle East War?

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CounterPunch - By Conn Hallinan - Apr. 03 (News) - When Israeli Minister without Portfolio Yossi Peled said recently that a war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah was “just a matter of time” and that such a conflict would include Syria, most observers dismissed the comment as little more than posturing by a right-wing former general. But Peled’s threat has been backed by Israeli military maneuvers near the Lebanese border, violations of Lebanese airspace, and the deployment of an anti-missile system on Israel’s northern border.

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With friends like Israel …

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Sydney Morning Herald - By Paul Daley - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - Mossad has made it much harder for Australians to travel in the Middle East, writes Paul Daley. If you travel to Arab countries on a passport as seemingly innocuous as one bearing the Australian coat of arms, some security authorities will still

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US' Expanded Weapons Stockpiling in Israel

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Nora Barrows-Friedman - Feb. 10 (News Report) - Approximately 1,400 Palestinians were killed - including more than 300 children - and over 5,000 people were wounded in the 2008-2009 Israeli attacks, dubbed Operation Cast Lead, using advanced American-made weaponry. Now, a year later, Israel and the United States have agreed to a weapons stockpiling deal that will store $800 million worth of American-made arms and military equipment on Israeli soil.

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Hezbollah rebuilds, in more ways than one

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Ben Gilbert - Dec. 18 (News Report) - he bombing of Beirut’s southern suburbs by Israel in 2006 destroyed and damaged hundreds of buildings. Now, despite three years of political instability, the global financial crisis and United States sanctions, the Hezbollah-run

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The Daily Star - Politics - Beirut violence underscores still-simmering tensions

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Star (Lebanon) - By Nicholas Kimbrell - Jun. 30 (News Report) - The brief eruption of violence in Beirut Sunday night underscores the unresolved political tensions and sectarian suspicions facing Lebanon's next government, political and security analysts told The Daily Star Monday. The street clashes, on the eve of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri's first round of consultations to fill the new cabinet, left one dead and at least three injured and snapped the period of calm since fiercely-contested parliamentary elections at the beginning of the month.

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