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Netanyahu Risks Triggering an Unwinnable War to Avoid Losing Election

Jonathan Cook • September 10, 2019

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Every Israeli prime minister – not least Benjamin Netanyahu – understands that a military entanglement with Hezbollah, Lebanon’s armed Shia movement on Israel’s northern border, is a dangerous wager, especially during an election campaign. It was Shimon Peres who lost to Netanyahu in 1996, weeks after the former prime minister had incensed Israel’s Palestinian minority... Read More

Both Israel and Hezbollah Imagined a Horrid Black Hole, and Stopped

Andre Vltchek • September 9, 2019

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There are rare moments in history, when even the most determined enemies can suddenly recognize the futility of battle. Sometimes, just for a moment or two. Sometimes, for longer. Such moments of sanity may save thousands, even millions human lives. And, such moments are not expressions of weakness or cowardice; on the contrary; they are... Read More

‘We Are Waiting for War’: Lebanese Say Israel Has Gone Too Far

Andre Vltchek • August 28, 2019

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After the recent Israeli attacks against Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, the Middle East has found itself in the midst of undeclared war. Almost everyone in Lebanon appears to agree. “This time Israel went too far. In just two days, it bombed three countries,” I am told by a local UN staffer based in Beirut. The... Read More

Israel Has Attacked Lebanon and Syria---So What?

Andre Vltchek • August 26, 2019

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On August 25th, 2019, Israel attacked Lebanon. It has done it again. Just as it attacked Syria, the same night. RT reported the same day: So, what? Really, we have been ‘here’ before, on so many occasions. PM Hariri is fuming, but he is one of the closest allies of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia... Read More

Staggering Election Loss for the West; Huge Win for Lebanon!

The Irony of Election Fraud

Brett Redmayne-Titley • May 9, 2018

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Beirut, Lebanon: On this lovely morning here on the coast of the Mediterranean there is not a cloud in the sky. In less than twenty-four hours voting will begin. However, on this day before the election, a howling wind is blowing from the south making the thousands of posters, banners and building-sized placards that feature... Read More

Hizbullah Today

Brett Redmayne-Titley • April 4, 2018

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“This is not good!” cautions a new Lebanese friend in a stern tone of warning, clutching this reporters arm for emphasis. “This, where you are going.. it is their neighbourhood... Hizbullah's neighbourhood. They control this completely!” Protesting that this quest is well-intentioned, no secret and no threat, this friend provides probably the most important council,... Read More

Kafka 2.0: How Youtube’s Political Censorship Is Exercised

Five years of archives of resistance to Zionism and imperialism deleted by Google

Sayed Hasan • January 13, 2018

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“Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” Thus begins The Trial, Franz Kafka’s 1925 work, in which Joseph K., ordinary bank employee, is arrested at his home by mysterious agents and notified of legal proceedings against him. He is not informed of... Read More

Israel, Saudi Arabia Setting Preconditions for War with Hezbollah

The Saker • November 17, 2017

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SouthFront has just released a very interesting video analysis warning about the possibility of a war involving Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and, possibility, Syria, Iran, and Israel. That, of course, also means that Russia and the US would be involved. First, please see the video here:

Israel 'Bombs' Syria as Envoy Presses Peace Talks Bid

Peter Lee • November 1, 2013

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That's how the story "Israel bombs Syria as envoy presses peace talks bid" was displayed courtesy of my Yahoo! home page. Huh? What's with the quotation marks? In the body of the article, you get: Pretty direct. I don't think Yahoo! needs to hide behind the air quotes. I guess the simple phrase "Israel bombs... Read More

Hezbollah Don't Take No Mess

Pepe Escobar • June 6, 2013

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The "Friends of Syria" are appalled. Their much vaunted "rebel held" stronghold of Qusayr is gone. This BBC headline sums it all up: "Syria conflict: US condemns siege of Qusayr." For White House spokesman Jay Carney, "pro-government forces", to win, needed help from by their "partners in tyranny" - Hezbollah and Iran. Right: so the... Read More

As Alliances Shift, Iran Wins. Again

Pepe Escobar • March 7, 2008

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It's no secret that a great deal of the alleged success of the George W Bush administration's "surge" - or at least the way it's being spun in the US - is related to a diminished flow of Iranian-made weapons towards militias in Iraq. The weapons anyway were being sold by Iranian and or Gulf... Read More

Hezbollah's Big Challenge

Pepe Escobar • April 19, 2007

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BEIRUT - "You are in heaven and those who killed you will go to hell," reads a poster in a middle-class, predominantly Sunni neighborhood in north Beirut. Those depicted in heaven include Saddam Hussein, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri (killed in a car bombing in 2005), and Sheik Ahmed Yassin... Read More

Deep Background

CIA Can't Handle the Truth; Mossad's Bodysnatching

Philip Giraldi • February 26, 2007

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A special group at the CIA’s Counter Terrorism Center, very similar to the group that tracked the activity of al-Qaeda through the 1990s, has been working on the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah over the past three years.In the wake of the failed Israeli incursion into Lebanon last summer, the White House asked these Hezbollah analysts... Read More

Hezbollah Denounces Evrensel Interview of Nasrallah as a Fake

The Interview That Wasn't

Alexander Cockburn • September 1, 2006

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Hussain Rahhal, Hezbollah's press liaison, has issued a written statement: This is in reference to an interview purporting to be of Hezbollah's leader,Sayeed Hassan Nasrallah, by a Turkish collective in Beirut. It was published in Evrensel, a socialist Turkish daily, on August 12 and 13, causing some stir in the Turkish press. It was translated... Read More

Part 1: Hezbollah South of the Border

Pepe Escobar • August 3, 2006

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CIUDAD DEL ESTE, at the triple border of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay - This is the way savage globalization ends - at least 20,000 shops, stalls, tin shacks and mini-malls crammed into 15 blocks selling everything under the (tropical) sun. There's Little Asia - thousands of Taiwanese, mainland Chinese and Koreans. But above all there... Read More

Hezbollah's Top Ally in Israel

Halutz's Bombing War

Alexander Cockburn • August 3, 2006

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"Israel is doomed," said a friend of mine some months ago, returning to the U.S. after a trip to Israel. I asked him why, and my friend, who spent twenty years working at a high level in the Pentagon, answered, "They've put in an Air Force man as chief of the General Staff." He was... Read More

The Spirit of Resistance

Pepe Escobar • July 26, 2006

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As southern Lebanon is turned into a wasteland mirroring the Gaza gulag, Washington neo-cons may stridently celebrate the contours of a final solution for the Hamas-Hezbollah "problem". Or should they? Israel's feverish military machine at least conveys the impression it knows exactly what it's doing - with its made-in-the-USA bombs destroying not just military but... Read More

Lebanon Left for Dead

Pepe Escobar • July 21, 2006

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Lebanon is mired in a terrifying labyrinth of death and destruction. Beirut's airport is bombed. Israel has imposed a sea blockade. Other than privileged Westerners who are being evacuated by air or sea, people have overnight become refugees. They are plunged into an exodus of hundreds of thousands crammed on rickety rural trucks, overcrowded buses,... Read More

Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need to Know

A perilous excursion into the distant past, starting seven whole weeks ago

Alexander Cockburn • July 21, 2006

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As the tv networks give unlimited airtime to Israel’s apologists, the message rolls out that no nation, least of all Israel, can permit bombardment or armed incursion across its borders without retaliation. The guiding rule in this tsunami of drivel is that the viewers should be denied the slightest access to any historical context, or... Read More

Leviathan Run Amok

Pepe Escobar • July 19, 2006

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Hezbollah may be writing the book - at least for now - of fourth-generation war. Hezbollah had a reputation as an extremely disciplined, mobile guerrilla force. Now Hezbollah has fully revealed itself as a more than competent asymmetrical actor. Hezbollah controls a great deal of territory - Beirut's southern suburbs, vast areas in southern Lebanon... Read More

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Laurent Guyénot

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John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.

Sydney Schanberg

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America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars

Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?