Who’s The Real Appeaser?

                   
msn.com     May 17, 2008            

This administration's few successes have come when it's agreed to engage with adversaries. chose an odd place and time to claim that talking to "terrorists and radicals" in the Middle East is like appeasing Hitler in the 1930s. As Bush was speaking in Israel, his preferred strategy against such... [read full story]                

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Siniora Makes Concessions towards Hizbullah

themedialine.org     May 15, 2008          

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has rescinded two decisions his cabinet took last week, which prompted deadly battles across Lebanon. The cabinet cancelled a probe into the Iranian-backed Hizbullah's private communications network and the sacking of the head of security at Beirut's...                

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Daily Star Political News: Dialogue to resume in Doha under Arab League watch

beiruter.com     May 15, 2008          

Leaders of Lebanon's opposition and pro-government parties will head to Doha on Friday to hold talks aimed at defusing a long-running feud between rival political factions, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani said Thursday. During a news conference in...                

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Daily Star Political News: Israeli general says Hizbullah proved strength

beiruter.com     May 15, 2008          

Hizbullah proved last week that it is the strongest force in Lebanon and could have seized power if it had wanted to, Israel's military intelligence chief said in remarks published on Thursday. "Hizbullah did not intend to take control ... If it had wanted to, it could have done it," Major...                

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Daily Star Political News: Hizbullah's rout of government supporters deals blow to US policy

beiruter.com     May 15, 2008          

The Lebanese Cabinet's climbdown in its latest showdown with Hizbullah marks a major victory for the Shiite resistance group and a slap in the face for US policy in the region, analysts said. "This climbdown is a major retreat, not only for the government but the US agenda in Lebanon," Amal...                

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'Hizbullah's Digging Its Own Grave

usc.edu     May 16, 2008          

'HIZBULLAH'S DIGGING ITS OWN GRAVE' By Brenda Gazzar Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1210668639076&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull May 15 2008 Hizbullah is "digging its own grave" by having turned its weapons against its own people in recent days, a Lebanese...                

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An Israeli Interpretation

beiruter.com     May 16, 2008          

YNet:The latest events in Lebanon are a result of an internal power struggle. Israeli’s ability to influence them is small to non-existent. However, we must realize that the latest developments, which prove that Hizbullah is back to being Lebanon’s strongest military and political power, are a...                

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What Just Happened?

beiruter.com     May 16, 2008          

Economist:IT LOOKED disturbingly like a sequel to Lebanon's bloody civil war of 1975-90: gun battles in city streets, kidnappings, execution-style slayings and tearful vows of vengeance. With at least 81 people killed so far, the violence of past days represents the most serious internal strife...                

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Daily Star Political News: Hizbullah's arms should be finessed (again)

beiruter.com     May 16, 2008          

It took a brush with national ruin, but the downward spiral of Lebanon's long-running political crisis has at last been halted - and even, however slightly, reversed. Much more will have to take place for the processes of reconciliation and re-stabilization to gather positive momentum, but at...                

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Daily Star Political News: Syria 'absolutely' backs talks in Doha

beiruter.com     May 16, 2008          

Damascus supports a deal brokered by a Qatari-led Arab delegation that helped to end fighting in Lebanon and sees a "real opportunity" for the country, Syria's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Friday. Walid al-Moallem told the Lebanese As-Safir newspaper he had called the prime minister...                

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How not to deal with counterinsurgencies

israelmatzav.blogspot.com     May 17, 2008          

Caroline Glick has read up on fighting counter-insurgencies, and she says that Israel is doing everything wrong and has been since 1993 when the Oslo Declaration of Principles was signed. As Galula explained, one of the main advantages that insurgents have over the governments they seek to...                

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