Fall Semester Brings New Hope for Lebanon’s Palestinians
Against a backdrop of many problems and challenges, more Palestinian refugees in Lebanon than in recent memory will enter university this fall semester.
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AIPAC: Israel’s Agent Feeling Squeezed?
The American Israel public affairs committee (AIPAC) has seen headier days according to US congressional staffers forced to work regularly with the pro-Zionist agent of Israel.
Read More30 Years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila, New Challenges Grip Lebanon’s Palestinian Camps
This year, American citizens received messages to stay away from Beirut and the annual commemoration of the Israeli facilitated massacre at Sabra-Shatila from their State Department
Read MoreThe Pope and the Palestinians
One hopes that Pope Benedict, as head of much of Lebanon’s Christian community, will encourage his large following among members of Parliament, the more than 800 religious and political leaders in Lebanon, to make a 90 minute oblation.
Read MoreIs the Syrian Crisis Being Leveraged to Weaken Hezbollah?
The coming weeks will reveal what, if any, success foreign and domestic anti-Resistance forces achieve in using the Syrian crisis to dismantle Hezbollah.
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US Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East?
The coming days will clarity the success of Israel’s in making an issue of the finding in the soon to be published draft report and the degree to which the Republican Party will gain for its findings in the race for the White House.
Read MoreHope and Despair for Lebanon’s Palestinians
Hiba and Hezbollah’s other supporters who share Sayed Hassan Nasrallah’s oft-expressed views demanding basic human rights for Palestinians in Lebanon believe that the Resistance block will, on this 30th anniversary of the massacre at Sabra-Shatila, finally act on what the late Imam Khomeini declared was a central “moral, religious, and political” obligation of all people of good will.
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Obama Trumps AIPAC, Romney, Republicans with Yet More Iran Sanctions
As a result of pre-empting AIPAC’s H.R. 1905, and despite ‘feel good’ further action by Congress on H.R. 1905, the Obama campaign says they gutted the AIPAC/Republican/Romney scheme while once more assuring Israel and its lobby.
Read MoreHypocrisy over Hezbollah Arms
The concept that the state should have a monopoly on all arms within a country has long been foreign to Lebanon.
Read MoreNow’s Not the Time for Hezbollah to Cut-and-Run
Now is not the time to throw in the towel just because times are tough, but it would be well for the tough to get a move on and to redouble efforts to serve the people by concrete results from Parliament and through government agencies.
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