Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Egypt, Gaza, gaza Strip, guerilla warfare, Hamas, Hizballah, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, Rafah Crossing, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Syria, Zionism, Zionist
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11 January 2009
Source: Electronic Intifada
While Israel fervently attempts to terrorize the Palestinians into submission in Gaza, many observers have started to wonder why Hizballah has refrained from stepping in militarily to assist its brothers-in-arms, Hamas. Such musings fail to take account of the constraints on Hizballah’s room for action, as well as the circumstances under which Hizballah would ignore such constraints. The question that should be posed is not so much if Hizballah will act, but when.
As things currently stand, Hizballah is not in a position to directly help Hamas militarily by opening a new front with Israel. In the first place, Hizballah and its supporters have only recently recovered from the devastating impact of Israel’s war against them in July 2006. A Hizballah offensive against (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Afghanistan, Arab Regimes, Arab States, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Chechnya, Collective Punishment, Colonial Power, Colonialism, Dispossession, Egypt, Ethic Cleansing, Euro-Supremacy, Fatah, Gaza, gaza Strip, Hamas, Hilary Clinton, Hosani Mubarak, Imperialism, Iraq, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Jerusalem, Jews, Joe Biden, Jordan, Lebanon, Logic, Mahmoud Darwish, Muslim, Muslim World, National Liberation, Native Americans, Nazi Germany, Palestinain Liberation Organization, Palestine, Palestinians, Qassem al-Mughrabi, Racism, Shiite Iraqi, Somalia, State Terror, Syria, Tawfiq Jaber, Terrorism, United Nations, White Supremacy, Yemen, Zionism, Zionist
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31 December 2008
Source: Guardian – Comment Is Free
I have spent most of the Bush administration’s tenure reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and other conflicts. I have been published by most major publications. I have been interviewed by most major networks and I have even testified before the senate foreign relations committee. The Bush administration began its tenure with Palestinians being massacred and it ends with Israel committing one of its largest massacres yet in a 60-year history of occupying Palestinian land. Bush’s final visit to the country he chose to occupy ended with (more…)
