Israel, Iran, Hezbollah, War
Seven Israeli tourists are killed in Bulgaria. Israel blames Iran and Hezbollah. They’re probably right. The exact motovation behind attacking tourists in Eastern Europe is a bit harder to discern. Did...
View ArticleThe Paradox Of Being A Jihadi
From this article; In his recent speech on the occasion of Quds Day (a holiday expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people and opposing Israel’s control over Jerusalem — or al-Qudsin Arabic),...
View ArticleOne Car Bomb Assassination Might Be The Calm Before The Storm
Hey look, there’s people in that fire. The assassination of Wissam al-Hassan has caused a lot of speculation in the media as to whether or not Lebanon is about to descend into another civil war. After...
View ArticleScarier Than An F-16
That’s not Maverick Two weeks ago (yeah, I’m pretty slow writing these things, whatever, it’s still relevant) the IDF bombed something in Syria. What that something was depends on who you asked at the...
View ArticleCurator Of The Resistance
On a beautiful spring afternoon, several weeks ago while I was still in Beirut (obviously), I took a trip with a few friends the to the Resistance Tourism Landmark in Mleeta, known more colloquially...
View ArticleThe Most Ironic Thing You’ll Read This Weekend
…is here. Why is this ironic? Mostly because of this passage; One scenario involves suicide bombers in public squares in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a predominantly Shiite area and a Hezbollah popular...
View ArticleForget That Last Post, This Is More Ironic
From Michael Young’s most recent Daily Star column; Conceivably, Hezbollah may find itself in much the same situation as the Israelis in southern Lebanon until 2000: operating in a foreign land on...
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