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Ahmadinejad Abandons Nuclear Aspirations, Sets Sights on Israel`s National Water Carrier

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Traveling in south Lebanon in the wake of the July War of 2006, I often acquired water bottles with labels depicting the variety of unexploded cluster munitions that one should keep an eye out for when walking in certain areas, such as in one’s yard.

Thanks to the state of Israel, it was thus possible to engage in the fundamental life process of hydration while simultaneously contemplating the sudden termination of all such processes. As for other regional water-related Israeli operations, these have enabled affected populations to not hydrate themselves.

Will Hezbollah Defeat Israel (again!) in the Coming War

Part I: “Know thy enemy” (Sun Tzu)

(MARON AL RAS VILLAGE, Lebanon Border) - On a clear day you can see Akka, Palestine from my favorite Lebanese village, Maron al Ras, where more than a few analysts here conjecture that the next and 6th aggression by Israel against Lebanon will begin.

On any day, but particularly since 9/21/10, you can also see beefed up Zionist military patrols, assorted electronic listening posts, sundry spy devices...

An Al Quds day letter to Tony Blair. From Lauren Booth, in Iran

Do you understand the 'idea' of the hardships suffered by millions in the Middle East as a direct result of your support for Israel, and just think they deserve it?

(TEHRAN) - Gilad Atzmon: I guess that Tony Blair's sister-in-law, Lauren Booth, could easily use the phone and tell Tony what she thinks of him, his politics and his new memoir. However, being a peace activist, she decided also to share it with the rest of us.

Return to Shatilla

To return to Shatila is an act of retribution, an act that gives voice to the dead that suffered there...

(LA VERNE, Calif.) - Outside of the Shatila camp, who remembers? What American knows of the massacre? What government agency has investigated our involvement in it?

Lebanon Puts Palestinians Underground to Keep Them From Phoning Home

The idea that Palestinian refugees in Lebanon should not be able to communicate with certain family members underscores the rootless existence to which they have been relegated by the Lebanese government

(BEIRUT, Lebanon) - Earlier this year in Lebanon, I paid a visit to Roumieh prison outside Beirut to see a Palestinian friend who had ended up there thanks to a business endeavor involving a series of fake checks and a fake ambassador of Somalia.

My friend had additionally been suspected of false patriotism and had been removed from Roumieh last year for a weeklong interrogation session to determine if he was an Israeli spy.

Lebanon Scatters a Little Chicken Feed and Labels it `Manna from Heaven`

Part of a series on securing civil rights for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon.

(SHATILA REFUGEE CAMP, Beirut) - At 3:02 p.m. on 8/17/10 Lebanon’s Parliament began to deliberate on granting basic civil rights to its Palestinian refugees and within four minutes agreed to alter article 50 Lebanon’s 1964 labor law to theoretically make it easier for Palestinian refugees to obtain a work permit and a job.

There was no discussion of other draft bills to grant Palestinian refugees elementary civil rights, and fifteen minutes later, by 3:17 p.m. Parliament had agreed on the next bill involving excavating for oil, which may bring millions to some well placed members. Many MP’s hadn’t studied either bill.

Americans Won`t Back Attack on Iran

If Iran is attacked, a large percentage of Americans will have nothing to do with it.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Want to see the end of the world as we know it? If you do, you are in luck, because your chance to see the future of your kids and grandkids go up in smoke is nearing, and if the republicans and Israelis have anything to say about it, the grand final act will be here before you know it.

What will cause this? Israel. Why? Because the leaders of Israel represent the dark forces of nature, that's why.

Supporting the Wrong Side

Mandela was arrested as a result of US intelligence cooperation with the apartheid regime, and was imprisoned on charges of ‘violence’ and ‘terrorism’.

(DAMASCUS, Syria) - When Nelson Mandela stood to greet the thousands of people gathered to watch the world cup final in South Africa, everyone stood to show respect to the man whose moral authority and stardom is unrivaled and uncontested.

Lebanon in Danger of Becoming Hizbullah`s Next Terror Capital

This article was first published on the official website of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon.

(BEIRUT) - Shortly after the termination of the July War four years ago, I visited the south Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil—largely destroyed by Israel—and was invited into the home of a family that had only recently returned to south Lebanon after residing in the United States for a number of years.

The family’s 13-year-old daughter Maryam summarized their wartime experience, which had involved spending approximately 10 days in a basement with dozens of relatives and neighbors and attempting to reconcile themselves to the idea of impending liquidation by Israeli surgical precision.

Terror Attack by Lebanese Army Thwarts Israeli Landscaping Effort

Past Israeli landscaping projects have include separating Palestinians from their yards with concrete walls.

(BEIRUT) - In the latest Israeli inversion of cause and effect relationships, the clash near the Lebanese border village of Adaisseh this week between Israeli and Lebanese soldiers resulted in the deaths of one of the former nationality and three of the latter.

It was characterized by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak as a “planned provocation”, by Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz as a “planned terror attack”, and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as something for which the Lebanese government was “directly responsible”.