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Pro-Syrian Assailants Batter Lebanese Future TV Journalist

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Samir Kassir, The Cedar Revolution, Syria, May Chidiac, Doha, Al Sharq Radio, An-Nahar, Lebanon, Hezbollah, March 8, Omar Harqous, Beirut, LBC TV, Reporters Without Borders, Future News TV, Saad Hariri, Syrian Social National Party (SSNP), Future Movement, Gebran Tueni, Al Mustaqbal, Qatar, Nadim Munla, March 14, Rafic Hariri, Sivan, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

The attack on Harqous drew widespread condemnation, with scores gathering in front of the news channel's headquarters to express solidarity with the Future TV organization.

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You and Khartoum: Why Darfur is Our Problem

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Omar Al-Bashir, Africa, Ethnic Cleansing, Massacre, Khartoum, Terrorism, Darfur, Genocide, Hezbollah, Sudan, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Ashley Rindsberg

What is happening in the world's finance markets is a crisis. What happens when gunmen hold hostages at a bank is a crisis. What is happening in Darfur is genocide.

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Iran's Offensive in Latin America: The Chicago Connection

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago

Read More: U.S. Latin America Policy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Latin America Policy, Ecuador, Chicago, Hezbollah, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Iran Latin America, Eyal Sela, Israel Iran, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

Tuesday morning, the Honorable Eyal Sela, Israel's Ambassador to Ecuador, held a roundtable discussion about Iran's growing influence in Latin America.

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What Happens in Syria Stays in Syria

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lebanon, John McCain, Middle East, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Conspiracy, Hezbollah, Attack on Syria, US Elections, Israel, Iraq, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Another bizarre incident was added to the string of assassinations and attacks that have plagued Syria for the past year. On October 26th an American ...

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Documents: Iran, Hezbollah Training Iraqi Militias In Tehran As 'Proxy Force'

New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran Training Iraqi Militias, Iran Iraq Militias, Hezbollah, Iran Iraq Proxy Force, Iran, Iraq, Politics News

They wake before dawn, with time to exercise, eat and pray before the day's first class in firing Kalashnikov rifles. Over the next eight hours, they...

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As It Meets, Time to Make OPEC Understand Access To Our Market Can No Longer Be Taken For Granted

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Oil, King Abdullah, Chavez, Hezbollah, Opec, Nytimes, Crude Oil Prices, Crude Oil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The US market for oil should no longer be available to all suppliers irrespective of their adversarial policies and their pricing strategies.

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Seth Colter Walls

Not To Be Discussed At RNC: How To Tackle Islamic Extremism

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Muslim Brotherhood, Terrorism, Mitt Romney, Hezbollah, Islamic Extremism, Hamas, Republican National Convention, Politics News

Michael Hirsh has a good article over at Newsweek about the many foreign policy dilemmas Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin needs to get smart about, and soon. A...

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Syria and Iran: An Alliance of Convenience

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel Syria, Hezbollah, Iran, Iran Syria, Hamas, Israel-Syria Peace Talks, Syria, Politics News
Alon Ben-Meir

The imposition of American and some Western sanctions against Syria and the accumulative international sanctions against Iran have provided an impetus for their political alliance.

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My Interview With Deborah Campbell: How Hezbollah's Triumph is Blowback for U.S. Policy

Omid Memarian | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Syria, The Middle East, John McCain, Terrorism, Deborah Campbell, Terrorist Organization, Olmert, Prisoner Exchange, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Shiite, Barack Obama, u.s. Foreign Policy, The United States, Iran, 2006 War, Saudi Arabia, Doha Agreement, Saudi Money, Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, Sunni, Politics News
Omid Memarian

Why after the Israel-Lebanon 34-day war two years ago, and particularly after the Doha accord in May, which restored Hezbollah to the Lebanese governm...

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Iran and the US: Beyond the War of Rhetoric

The Real News | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

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

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

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 | Politics

Read More: Lebanon, Israel, Hezbollah, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Hezbollah Israel Prisoner Exchance, Israel Frees Militants, Politics 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 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israel Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange, Politics 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 | Politics

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

Read More: Israel, Hezbollah, Israel Hezbollah Agreement, Israel Hezbollah Prisoner Swap, Israe Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Politics News

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

Read More: Israel, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Israel Lebanon Prisoner Swap, Home News

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 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hezbollah Lebanon, Lebanon, Terrorists, War on Terror, Terrorism, Hezbollah, Palestinians, Barack Obama Israel, Global War on Terror, Barack Obama, War on Terrorism, Israelis Palestinians, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Palestinian Authority, Terror, Palestinian, Jews Obama, Lebanon Fighting, Obama Israel, Barack Obama Palestine, Politics News
Steve Posner

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 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Hezbollah, Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange, Israel-Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange, Hezbollah Prisoners, Israeli Soldiers, Politics News

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 | Politics

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

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 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Iraq, John McCain, Jeffrey Klein, Navy, Hezbollah, Pow, Politics News
Diane Francis

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 | Politics

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

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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Seth Colter Walls

McCain Takes Harder Line On Hezbollah Than Bush

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

Read More: John McCain, Hezbollah, Israel, Barack Obama, Politics News

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 | Politics

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

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 | Politics

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

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 | Politics

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, Politics News
Omid Memarian

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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