The US, in a recent visit, has asked Lebanon to vote for new sanctions on Iran. Lebanon has no business voting for sanctions. Though I might be a critic of Iran on many issues, including their support for Hezbollah and their steering of the latter in Lebanese politics, I am not a fan of US [...]
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No business voting against Iran!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, UN, US on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Israel hands over cluster bomb map… three years too late!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Cluster Bombs, Israel, Jewish-Arab Relations, Lebanon, Middle East on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After three years of refusing to hand over maps of where cluster bombs were dropped, Israel finally handed them over this week. Of course, had Israel handed over the maps earlier, countless deaths could have been avoided. Meanwhile, the international community hardly made a peep while Israel took their sweet time for no logical reason other [...]
No peace so long as Israel continues to play roughshod
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Peace, Refugees, United States on April 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
As long as Israel continues to flaunt the basic rights of the Palestinians and so long as it does not rectify the basic injustice committed when the state was established in 1948, peace in Lebanon and the region will never be. We will always suffer from instability. Why? Because we will have the forces supprting [...]
Hezbollah’s true intentions are revealed!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Egypt, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week, Hezbollah’s true intentions were revealed when Egypt uncovered Hezbollah’s activities on its own soil. Hezbollah appeared to deny the serious accusations leveled by the Egyptian authorities, but in fact went on to admit that the person arrested there was indeed a member of Hezbollah, and that he was there on official Hezbollah business. [...]
One day, Israel will pay the price
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Israel, Palestine, Peace on February 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Israel was created by shear shrewdness and utter disregard for the rights of a people, the Palestinians. Zionism found unimagined success in their efforts to create a Jewish state in Palestine. Thanks to a strong PR effort combined with well-organized military plan and international support, today Israel is a powerful country and the Palestinians an [...]
Here’s is what a solution in Palestine requires
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Palestine on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have often been asked what Israel should do in order for the Arab countries to accept Israel in the region. Here is a very general overview of what is needed. In order to achieve peace in the Middle East and end the long lasting Palestinian-Israeli dispute, here is what Israel needs to do: Admit [...]
In love or war, Lebanon gets nil from Syria!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Aoun, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria on December 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As Aoun makes his “historic” visit to Syria, we learn an important lesson: whether we are at peace with Syria or at war, Lebanon gets none of its demands met from Syria. We can only hope to get bits and pieces whenever Syria is in the right mood. The reason is that Lebanon, when at [...]
Naked politics!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United States on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The recent recognition of the Ukrainian Holodomor, the 1932-33 famine, as a crime against humanity by the US and the EU parliament is an example of how politics will always be politics. Now, as the “west” tries to lure countries bordering on Russia into its camp, the elected prostitutes have decided that the famine was [...]
The myth of the resistance!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Aoun, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Middle East on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hezbollah and now Michel Aoun want us to believe that we in Lebanon have and must maintain the resistance to Israel in its current form because that is the one and only option we have. We cannot imagine, they say, that we can sit peacefully and accept Israel’s occupation of our territory. Yet, the very [...]
Syrian accusations
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Lebanon, Middle East, Syria on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We recently heard about the televised accusations from Syria that the Future Movement (Mustaqbal) has been financing Fateh Al-Islam. Of course, Saad Hariri did what he was expected to do in condemning those accusations, while his opponents suggested they were taking those accusations seriously. The thing is, if the Future Movement was really financing a [...]
