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Today, is one of those days when reality comes far too close for comfort. Today, the wars of the Mideast blasted their way into the city I live in in the most visceral way possible. This is from a King5-TV online report:
One person has been killed and at least five others have been […]

Ashraf Ismail, writing in ArabNews describes a depressing war scenario for the IDF in which it has no hope of vanquishing its foe or winning this war. In fact, the war can only lead to a weakening of Israel’s position vis a vis its adversaries. He first writes about Hezbollah:
The world is witnessing […]

As recently as 2000, Israel withdrew its forces from southern Lebanon after a disastrous occupation lasting 18 years. Not having learned its lesson well enough, it wishes to repeat the failure in 2006. The NY Times reports that Israel will reoccupy the same region until an international peacekeeping force takes control of the […]

It was an average day yesterday in the Israel-Lebanon conflict. Rockets and bombs flew on both sides of the border. Soldiers on both sides fired at each other. Some died. Some were wounded. Civilians too died on both sides of the border. But far more on one side than […]

Well, finally. Someone has come to their senses within the Israeli government. Or at least begun to come to their senses. Whether they’ve fully done so or not will become evident in the near term. Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced today that Israel would drop its earlier objection to any international […]

MaxSpeak alerted me to a Forward article about the supposed silence of the liberal blogs about the Lebanon crisis. The article’s author interviews a few of the “major players” in the liberal blog world and nary a one felt comfortable taking on the issue. But one of the dumbest statements came from Kos […]

Yesterday, I wrote that the main problem with Secretary Rice’s upcoming visit to the Mideast is the fact that she will refuse to give Syria anything it wants (the Golan Heights for example) while at the same time asking it to give up something it has wanted till now (involvement in Lebanon along with support […]

Excuse me while I barf at Jennifer Siegel’s awful, stupid piece of journalism at the Forward which posits this dubious proposition:
Bloggers — as the feisty class of Internet pundits are known — love to paint themselves as free-speech warriors who bravely tackle the hard truths that mainstream media outlets either ignore or distort. But as […]

Condi Rice is gearing up for some major diplomatic efforts to resolve the Lebanon crisis. She takes off for the Mideast on Sunday. I’m being a bit presumptuous in assuming that a diplomatic mission that has hardly begun will fail. But I’m afraid that it must. And even if she does […]

The Bush Administration continues its ghoulish support for the ongoing Israeli assault on Lebanon. We’re in favor of pounding the shit out of the country for another week until Hezbollah is supposedly vanquished or else weakened. Only then, will we be in favor of peace. This comes from the NY Times:
President Bush […]