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Degenerates in Lebanon

Nathan — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:17:40 +0000

Our old pal Nasrallah up in Lebanon appeared in public for the first time in a long time according to recent news posts. Not to rehash all the old news about how Israel messed up in not being able to lay proper waste to this man in the LW2 and also to avoid thinking too [...]

Kind Of Nice To Be Right

Nathan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:25:08 +0000

But it kind of sucks too. I just did a quick lunchtime read of the The Iraq Study Report and the situation is not looking too good for Iraq. I wish I could say I was amused, even sarcastically bemused, at the smug sense I get while reading. Everything those of us on my side [...]

EUROPE: What are you going to do now?

Nathan — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:08:36 +0000

Hot on the heals of accusations of war crimes, excessive force, and other hot air from the Old World there comes news of an impending problem in Gaza:

Yuval Diskin, director of Israel’s Shin Bet Security Services, told the Knesset last month that since the Jewish state withdrew from Gaza, the Palestinians successfully have transferred [...]

Nasrallah Wins The War

Nathan — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:09:32 +0000

So says this week’s The Economist cover story. A quote from the opening paragraph:

Israel’s prime minister set himself an absurd aimï¿½the complete demolition of Hizbullah’s power in Lebanonï¿½and failed to achieve it. The shrewder Mr Nasrallah said victory would consist merely of surviving, and Hizbullah, however battered, did survive.

They want to be [...]

Are They Kidding?

Nathan — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:28:18 +0000

It is images like this, from NYTimes, that make me howl at the computer! I am assuming that the fence is somewhere on the southern boarder with Israel. This is not going to be the end of the influence of Hezballah has on this region, the state with in a state is note gone. You [...]