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Iran and the US: Beyond the War of Rhetoric

The Real News | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Hezbollah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Security, The Real News, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Home News

McCain's belief that Iran is going to hand weapons over to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah is unlikely because the Iranian government is fully aware that other countries could identify Iran as the provider.

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Did Hezbollah Win?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Hezbollah, Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel, Ehud Olmert, Middle East Conflict, Israel-Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange, Terrorism, Home News

It was not until television stations broadcast pictures of two black coffins being unloaded from a truck at the Israeli-Lebanese border that Israelis became certain of the fate of the soldiers.

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Freed Lebanese Militants Vow To Continue Fighting Israel

AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Lebanon, Israel, Hezbollah, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Hezbollah Israel Prisoner Exchance, Israel Frees Militants, Home News

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Five militants freed in a prisoner swap with Israel prayed and laid wreaths at the grave of a slain Hezbollah commander Thursd...

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Israel Releases 5 Lebanese Militants After Hezbollah Returns 2 Israeli Soldiers' Bodies

AP | STEVEN GUTKIN and ARON HELLER | Posted 07.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israel Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange, Home News

JERUSALEM — Critics of Israel's lopsided prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas said Wednesday that such deals only encourage more hostage-t...

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Israeli Cabinet Approves Prisoner Swap With Hezbollah

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Middle East, Warwire, Hezbollah, Israel, Prisoner Exchange Israel Hezbollah, Israel and Hezbollah, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Home News

NAHARIYA, Israel — Moshe Sasson felt the gun pressed against his head, a Lebanese assailant poised to shoot, when the lights in the hall of his ...

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Israel Signs Prisoner Swap Agreement With Hezbollah

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home

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JERUSALEM — Israel's military said it began digging up the bodies of Lebanese fighters Monday after the government struck a deal with Hezbollah ...

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Hezbollah Confirms Prisoner Swap With Israel

AP | HUSSEIN DAKROUB | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah's leader on Wednesday confirmed for the first time that his group will hand over two captured Israeli soldiers and i...

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Israel's Exchange and Obama's Enemies

Steve Posner | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home

Amid the cheers arising in Hezbollah's Beirut and the Gaza of Hamas, the sound of Obama's defense of Israel may also be heard.

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Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange Approved By Israeli Cabinet

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 06.29.2008 | Home

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JERUSALEM — The Israeli government agreed Sunday to free a Lebanese gunman convicted in one of the grisliest attacks in the country's history in...

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Israel's Diplomatic "JewJitsu"

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Sarkozy, Oil Exports, Olmert, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraq., Home News

Israel has secretly accomplished more diplomatically in the past few months with its adversaries than anything that Condi Rice could have or would have brokered in years.

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John "Top Gun" McCain

Diane Francis | Posted 06.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Iran, Iraq, John McCain, Jeffrey Klein, Navy, Hezbollah, Pow, Home News

John McCain is scary. Of course, he isn't frightening if you think that a reckless Top Gun personality embodies the skill set to be President and Com...

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"Appeasement" Israeli Style

Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, George Bush, Gaza, Middle East, Ehud Olmert, Hezbollah, Hamas, Israel, Appeasement, Home News

On the surface, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and a prisoner swap deal between Hezbollah and Israel provide a glimmer of hope for a period of tranquility between the conflicting parties.

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McCain Takes Harder Line On Hezbollah Than Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

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Visiting Beirut on Monday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lent her personal support to the new power-sharing agreement reached between the countr...

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Congress and Lebanon

Stephen Zunes | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Amal Militia, HR 1194, Saad Hariri, Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Congress, Lebanon, Gary Ackerman, Hezbollah, Salafi, Foreign Policy, Hizballah, Siniora, Israel, Home News

With a history like this, Congress should think twice before going on record in support of specific factions in Lebanon's confusing and violent political environment. But over 95% of House members disagree.

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Beirut Nostalgia

Haim Watzman | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Israel, Lebanon, Yehuda Ben-Meir, Roger Cohen, Beirut, Beirut Lebanon, War, New York Times, Hezbollah, Home News

We had barely slept for two nights and were caked with the mud stirred up by a late-winter downpour. Within a few minutes we threw our gear together and lugged it into the choppers that flew us to Tyre.

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And Now Whose Foreign Policy Is Naive?

Omid Memarian | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Ahmadinejad, Militia Groups, Axis of Evil, َU.S. Military, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Afghanistan, Hezbollah, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hamas, Iran. Iraq, Arab Countries, Barack Obama, Home News

By opening a dialogue with Khamenei, the next U.S. president could seriously undermine general international perceptions of Ahmadinejad's power.

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Is McCain Building An Iran War Drum?

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Ahmadinejad, Mccain, Matthew Plaevksy, Middle East, Senator John McCain, Hezbollah, Aipac, Iran, Hamas, The Real News, Israel, Aijaz Ahmed, Nuclear Bomb, Nie, Home News

Kowtowing to an Israeli fear of Iran, McCain used the AIPAC forum to reinforce his three most dubious and dangerous policy claims and beat the drums of war.

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Hezbollah Sides With Iraqi "Resistance"

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home

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When Hezbollah reached a power-sharing agreement with Lebanon's U.S.-supported government last week, the State Department called it "a really welcome ...

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Hezbollah Warns Lebanon's New Government: Don't Attempt To Disarm Us

AP | HUSSEIN DAKROUB | Posted 05.26.2008 | Home

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's new president got a red carpet welcome Monday, but was quickly thrust into the political thicket as Hezbollah's lead...

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Hezbollah, Lebanese Government Reach Peace Deal Ending 18-Month Political Stalemate

AP | HUSSEIN DAKROUB | Posted 05.21.2008 | Home

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's feuding factions reached a breakthrough deal Wednesday that ends the country's 18-month political stalemate, but als...

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Why Republicans Might Attack Iran Before the General Elections

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Human Rights, Sen. Clinton, Democracy, Weapon, Washington, Nuclear Program, Congress, Al-Qaeda, Washington Institute, Hamas, Hezbollah, National Intelligence Estimate, Patrick Clawson, Nie, Muslim World, Lieberman, The White House, Iran, Congressman Henry A. Waxman, Sen. McCain, Adm. Michael Mullen, Tehran, Baghdad, General Election, Foreign Policy, War With Iran, Kyle, Nie Iran Report, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Neo-Conservatives, Home News

One of the strongest scenarios among neo-conservatives is based on the hypothesis that in the case of any military attack against Iran, the greatest beneficiary would be John McCain.

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Hezbollah Now Most Powerful Force In Lebanon

Huffington Post | Posted 05.18.2008 | Home

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The Washington Post determines that Hezbollah's recent show of force In Beirut has carried the group to the forefront of power in Lebanon: Hezbollah ...

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Iran Wins in Lebanon

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Iran, Lebanon, Lebanon Fighting, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Hariri, Hezbollah, Bush, Nasrallah, Home News

The warring parties in Lebanon agreed to a deal brokered by Arab diplomats, and incoming flights to Beirut's International airport have resumed ending...

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The Case for 'Appeasement'

Lionel Beehner | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Middle East, Terrorism, Appeasement, Osama Bin Laden, Foreign Policy, Home News

We should not appease, engage, or give shoulder rubs to Islamist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. But wishing they would go away, while arming their enemies has gotten us nowhere.

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Swift Boating Comes to Jerusalem

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.15.2008 | Home

Read More: George Bush, Iran, Barak Obama, John McCain, Lebanon., Jerusalem, Israel, Congress, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Hezbollah, Hamas, Biden, North Korea, Home News

Because Bush has little to offer in the way of a new American Middle East strategy, he preyed on Israelis' worst fears. That's quite a birthday present to a nation that has endured so much.

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