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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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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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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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Saudi Arabia: A Player in Middle East Elections

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - Jun. 13 (News Analysis) - Saudi Arabia shifts its focus from Lebanon to Iran. Mousavi finds support from Saudi-run media outlets. Will the monarchy influence these elections too?

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Lebanese TV Confuses Voters

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - May. 29 (News Analysis) - There is no country in the Middle East as fragmented and full of contradictions as Lebanon, yet it is perhaps the most pluralistic society in the Arab world. With a few days left before the parliamentary election due to be held on June 7th, Lebanese emotions have been running high

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Engaging the Muslim world

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Juan Cole - Mar. 17 (Special Report) - Despite their political support for Hizbullah, Lebanese Shiites should not be assumed to share its puritanical attitudes. Many Shiite young women are every bit as chic and oriented toward Paris fashion as their Maronite Catholic peers, and cosmopolitan Shiite families often have outposts in Brazil or West Africa. One of the more scandalous video music stars in Beirut, known for her baby face and steamy dance moves, is Haifa Wahbi, whose father is a Shiite. In December 2007, I flew to Lebanon to give a talk at the American University of Beirut. On my trip I had a conversation with a Shiite graduate student from the village of Qana in the south, who was studying comparative literature at Lebanese American University and enjoying Arundhati Roy's "God of Small Things" -- an Indian novel about a star-crossed romance that transgresses caste taboos.

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Did Hezbollah Win?

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - Jul. 21 (News Analysis) - in a rare public appearance, Hezbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah greeted the five Lebanese freed from captivity in Israel after his organization returned the bodies of two captured Israeli soldiers. Is the prisoners' homecoming a triumph for Hezbollah? Mosaic Intelligence Report Link TV's Middle East analyst and award-winning producer, Jamal Dajani, gives his weekly unique perspective and insight on major newsworthy stories.

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Armed and Dangerous

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By David Kenner - Jun. 02 (News Analysis) - as in most episodes of Lebanon's decades-long sectarian conflict, the true calculus of the country's politics is more complicated. The immediate gains made by Hezbollah this month only obscured the fact that Lebanese opinion is turning against them. There is good reason to believe that, in winning this temporary victory, Hezbollah has ensured its eventual ruin.

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Turkey and Qatar - New Mediators on the Block

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - By Jamal Dajani - May. 29 (News Report) - The Lebanese feuding factions reach an agreement in Qatar. The Syrians and the Israelis are talking peace with the help of Turkey. What's going on? And why are traditional mediators like the U.S. absent from the negotiating tables?

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Command vessel USS Mount Whitney posted opposite Lebanon

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

DEBKAfile - May. 17 (Special Report) - Debkafile's military sources report that Saturday, May 17, the USS Mount Whitney , considered the US Navy's most advanced command, control, communications, computer and intelligence vessel, took up position opposite Lebanese shores for an "unscheduled mission." The Sixth Fleet spokesman Lt. Patrick Foughty said the ship would be there "to support additional communication requirements for our ships already underway." DEBKAfile's sources add that the USS Cole missile destroyer arrived in that sector last week, while the USS Harry Truman carrier strike group began cruising in the Mediterranean around Greece, whence the aircraft on its decks can reach Syrian and Lebanese skies. The fleet spokesman added there are no long-term plans to keep the Mount Whitney away from its home base. Although the US lieutenant did not name those plans, military observers gained the impression that the American navy-air build-up off Lebanon was designed for a short stay or a specific operation, after which it will disperse.

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Losing Lebanon