tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320132022009-07-01T21:33:14.817-05:00My LebanamericaBoomaxerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01581109418602531695noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32013202.post-1163801763810569612006-11-17T17:10:00.000-05:002006-11-17T17:16:03.820-05:00

http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/11-2006/Article-20061116-f0fb0c35-c0a8-10ed-01a4-77dff3ba1d17/story.htmlIsn't this just more the same BS we've always seen in Lebanon?Yeah, except now it's nuclear-powered BS and Iran is flush with oil dollars.Brings REM to mind: "It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fiiiiiine."Divided loyalties amonst the Lebanese still abound and nothing

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"Thanks" to the Israeli bombing of the Beirut fuel depots, we have a new ecological disaster on our hands in the Eastern Mediterranean...Click on individual pictures to expand.Edde Sands Beach in Jbeil (Byblos)Ramlet el Bayda Beach in Beirut (not far from the AUB campus)The port of Jbeil (Byblos)

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Bashar "the Beesie" Assad accused the Cedar Revolution of causing the latest war because they "incited strife by asking Hizballah to disarm". (link)Hassan Nasrallah vows that HA "would not be disarmed by force" by either the Lebanese Army or the UN. (link)Y'all getting the message?It ain't over 'til the Sith Empire (a.k.a. Iran/Syria) and Darth Vader (a.k.a. Nasrallah) say so.Ceasefire, my ass.PS

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Famed investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, has a very interesting article.He alleges (from his sources) that Israel had told the US much ahead of time of its intention to attack Hizballah by air and that the US was studying this campaign in order to better evaluate a similar option it wanted in attacking Iran. HA supposedly gave Israel the excuse by staging their cross-border

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From Bob the Angry FlowerWebsite at: http://www.angryflower.comClick on the picture to expand it.

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Controlling the media out of the South and the Dahiyeh (Beirut's southern suburbs) is a speciality of Hizballah (no surprises there).Here is an write-up on someone's website with some proof of this (re: the Reuters photo scandal and others). You'll see some obvious photographic set-ups (in other words, fakeries). Basically, any reporter trying to cover these aforementioned areas in Lebanon, has

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There's an excellent article by Michael Young (the opinion editor of The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper published in Beirut, and a contributing editor at Reason magazine) in the NY Times - linked below.Although it's on the long-ish side, I highly recommend reading it. He provides excellent analysis and re-cap of what Lebanon's gone through in the last few years that led to this current

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Israel bombed bridges in the Christian area of Lebanon today, further isolating parts of the country from each other. If there's a strategic or military reason for this, I'd sure like to hear it!I'm all for Israel disabling Hizballah - but this does not conform to that goal. Again, if I'm wrong on this point, someone please explain why.This area is miles and miles away from the Lebanon-Israel

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From the AFP, Aug. 3rd 2006:"On Thursday...Lebanese officials reduced the Qana toll to 28 dead, including 16 children".This does not diminish the atrocity (that's 16 dead children too many), but we went from 52 dead/36 children to 28 dead/16 children?? I can't help but think that someone is using dead babies for propaganda, which really disgusts me.

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Link:'History Will Judge Us All On Our Actions'July 31, 2006; Page A10 of the Wall Street JournalI keep trying to figure Aoun out.In the late 1980's, in his wars against the Syrian army and the Lebanese Forces militia, he was immensely popular with most Christians (and others) in Lebanon who desperately wanted an end to Syrian hegemony and a return of a strong centralized government (as opposed

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I hope to make this blog about my experiences with/in Lebanon and America, the two pillars of my identity.I was born in Lebanon, but for the last 17 years, have made the USA my home. I lived through a good chunk of the Lebanese Civil War (1974-1990) and, like many others with the same experience, was forever marked and haunted by it. The latest troubles in Lebanon, preceeded by multiple

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