Questioning Hezbollah’s finances
Interesting article about an investment scandal in Lebanon that has tarnished Hezbollah’s reputation.
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Questioning your predispositions and biases
Harvard has a pretty neat site – www.implicit.Harvard.edu – that offers people the opportunity to take tests that may surprise us with insights into subconscious biases we all have…
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Iran Can Only Be Stopped in Iran
With regards to the Hezbollah-Lebanon-Doha debacle, and the article by Barry Rubin that I blogged about here, I received some interesting comments from Ami Isseroff, who runs MideastWeb and who I consider one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking analysts on the Middle East: There is no use comparing everything bad that happens to Munich. [...]
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The Solution for Zimbabwe’s and Lebanon’s Armies
Lebanon’s army stood by as the Hezbollah militia rampaged downtown Beirut and attacked the government’s offices. Its alleged rationale? The army was not going to take sides – as if "neutrality" is the call of the day when an armed militia tries to bully and dominate (if not yet overthrow) the democratically elected government. Then [...]
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This is How Bad the Hezbollah-Lebanon Debacle Is
How bad is the situation for the Lebanese? This is how bad: Hezbollah’s militia is destabilizing in and of itself – no State in History has ever been able to call itself a stable State if there is a non-State-controlled militia that challenges the authority of the State; For years the UN and the world [...]
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Hezbollah in Ramalah
Many signs point to Hezbollah’s increasing presence in the Palestinian territories, a sharp departure to Arafat’s model of Palestinian nationalism being the realm of Palestinian groups only. This is among the most serious (and least addressed) developments over the last few years. In my work with OneVoice, one of the things I notice often is [...]
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