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Middle East Focus: Category Archive for Lebanon

True Lies in Syria: Between the Murderous Regime and the Murderous Opposition……..

War and Love in Beirut: a Violent Syrian man, a Wench Named Love, a Hapless Egyptian Barber, a Jordanian Terrorist……

Free Syrian Army Kidnaps Lebanese Pilgrims, What will Turkey do?.............

GCC Media Censorship and Repression, Cairo and Beirut as Cultural Capitals…..

Saad Hariri Wages Battle in Beirut from the Safety of Paris and Riyadh………

Syrian Fallout: South to Tripoli, North to Tripoli......

Shores of the Other Tripoli: Hezbollah Navy Intercepts Libyan Arms to Syria..……….

UAE Arbitrary Expulsions of Lebanese Families, Beating Joe McCarthy in the GCC.……..

White Gods vs. Brown Gods: Greed and Blood Money from Beirut to Lockerbie to Tehran to Afghanistan.. …….

Tars Tarkas of Arabia: From Revolutionary Spring to Reactionary Sectarianism ……….

New Iranian Terror Plot Uncovered by, You Guessed it, NYPD………..

An Iranian Smoking Mushroom Cloud: a Western 'Soft Racist' Comfort Zone.……..

A Crime in Manhattan: Plaza Hotel, Saudi Oger, and Lebanese Rumors……..

New Plot Exposed: Iranian Ayatollahs Poised to Take Over Egypt, Again……..

Israel and Republicans Point "the" Finger in Global Warming………..

Hariri now Claims Syria Killed his Father, Will STL Drop Hezbollah Charges?..........

Watermelon Country: Saudi King Gifts Lebanon’s Hariri $ 2 Billion for Valentine………..

Coming Full Circle in Syria (and Lebanon): Al Qaeda and the West as Allies, Again………

Lebanon’s Unwelcome Visitors: Ki-Moon, a Phony UN Bureaucrat, a Familiar Messenger of Evil…………..

Hariri’s Future Feels the Pinch: the Saudi Patrons Getting Stingy? What about Hezbollah?............

Turkey and Iran and the West: Containment from the Gulf to the Mediterranean..............

About Aggression in Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr and Johnny Depp for President..................

A People’s Democratic Salafi Kingdom in Northern Lebanon?..............

Lebanon and Iraq in Libya: NATO and the Warlords……….

Mel Brooks and Oliver Stone of Persia: a Taliban-Hezbollah-Colombian-Iranian-alQaeda-Mexican-Texan-African Network………

Tit for Tat between the United States and Hezbollah: a War of Espionage and Drugs and Money and Public Relations………….

Lebanon: Nasrallah of Hezbollah Pulls a Fast One, Tricks Israelis……

From Beirut to Baghdad and Back: Hezbollah, Lebanese Legitimacy, and Belling the Cat.................

U.S. Campaign Hiking: Gingrich goes to CMU instead of Iraq-Iran Border, no Rice & Rice………….

Sadrists Join Hezbollah in Damascus: Pavlov's Dogs of America, Lord Gaga of Free Syria……

Lebanon: Hezbollah Accuses the CIA of Doing its Job………..

Hezbollah Deputy Leader Opines on “Molesting” Lebanon, about Cain and Gingrich and Paul………….

The West and the Syrian Taliban: Advise from a Saudi Prince of Thieves?…………

Lebanon’s Hariri Tweeting the Arab Potentates…………..

Modalities: Syria, Libya, and the AIPAC Institute for Near East Policy………..

Romney Middle East Policy Adviser: Hiking on the Iranian Border, spelling S-T-U-P-I-D-I-T-Y......

Condi Rice: a Shower for a Lebanese President, Raunchy Photos with Qaddafi………

David Ignatius Joins Saudi Intelligence, or is it Bahrain News Agency…………

Oh Oh Lockerbie, and STL of Lebanon, and Tony Blair, and the Fab Four………

Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr on the Hezbollah Trail…….

Manna from the Ground: Israeli Gas, Lebanese Gas, Diplomatic Gas............

A Song of Lebanon: Oh Cluster Bombs, Oh Cluster Bombs…………..

United States of Paranoia? Imported Baggage, “Native” Baggage, Pakistani Beaver Hunters.................

Syria and Iraq and the Arabs: the New Iranian-Turkish Regional Rivalry………….

Petro- Elections of Pakistan and Elsewhere……..

Al Qaeda in Lebanon: Who Killed Hariri? Who Really Knows? Who Really Cares?............

The New (More) Islamic Republics of Arabia………

UN Lebanon Hariri Tribunal to Extend its Probe to Sabra & Shatila Massacres?………

Sherlock Holmes vs. Poirot in Lebanon: the Hariri STL Legal and Political Non-Event………….

The Coming Lebanese-Israeli Oil and Gas War?...........

Oh Hezbollah: about the Balance of Terror and Israel and Syria…………

Hassan Nasrallah, International Espionage, Mossad, and the CIA………….

Lebanon’s Hariri Chooses Paris over Riyadh………….

An Old Game of Lebanese-Saudi Musical Chairs on the Gulf………….

Pro-Saudi Lebanese Shi’a Cleric Charged as Israeli Spy……….

Hariri Family Affairs: of Saudi Masters and Money Troubles………

Hariri as Metternich: Shilling for the Saudis in Syria………

Hariri as a Humorous Asterix and Nasrallah………..

Lebanon , Elusive Secularism, Aging Beauty, no Salafis………

April Breaking News VI: Hariri to be Made a Saint………

Robert Gates for President of Bahrain, Feltman of Beirut………..

Lebanon: STL to Charge Muqtada al-Sadr?……….

The Next President of Lebanon…………..

Angry Love Letter to Hariri of Lebanon, an Annual Death Fest………

Lebanon for Galilee, Hasan Nasrallah in Poker and 'Tarneeb..........

A Lebanese Bolshevik Commissar Dabbles in Bahrain Politics……..

From Tehran to Harat Hrayek to Tunis and Cairo……..

Sa’ad Hariri as Fredo Corleone: the Incompetent Street Agitator of Tripoli…………

Beyond Tunisia: Arab Regimes Worry about “Losing” Lebanon, the Hanged Mashnuq…….

Iranians Report a Tunisian Hezbollah Group………

Hariri and the Angry Prince: Apologizing for the ‘B” Word………

American Diplomatic ‘Nonsense’, a Disrespectable Tribunal, a Jackass UN……..

Why Nobody Interferes in Lebanon, From Caesar Augustus to STL Warlords..............

The West Ready to Indict Khamenei, Hezbollah, the Assads, and all Usual Suspects?........

Leaked not Wikileaked: Robert Fisk on the Logic or Illogic of STL on Lebanon ……

New York Times Dumbing Down over Lebanon Analysis…………

Labor Shortage? Israelis Capture Lebanese Sheepherder………

Hariri and Obama: Enter White House a Messenger Boy, Leave White House a former PM…….

A Common Arab View on STL, the West, and Hezbollah………….

Lebanon Government to Collapse while Hariri Shops in New York………

Did U.S-French-Israeli Efforts Derail Saudi-Syrian Accord in Lebanon?.........

The Lebanese Quagmire: is it Warlike Westerners vs. Pacifist Arabs?……..

Fires of Lebanon: will Israel’s New High-Tech Military Impress Hezbollah?..........

An Ethnocentric Rightist Daily Middle East Newspaper, Nasrallah's American Deputy………

Israel Has Got Gas now, but the Lebanese also Claim it..........

Of Lebanese Clairvoyants, Arab Sorcerers, and a Kingdom without Magic………..

Possibly the Best Arabic Language Newspaper in the World, for Now………..

Why the West, Israel, and Some Arabs are Licking their Chops over Lebanon…………

Mystery of Jesus: was he Jewish, Lebanese, or from Abu Dhabi?..............

Saudis on Lebanon and STL: a House Divided?.............

Lebanese Lord Gaga Vacations in Riyadh, Does the Umrah……..

A Court of Confusion, a Confused Court: Press Evidence, Hezbollah Evidence, Suspicious Evidence………

Lebanon, Politics, and the STL Tribunal: the Tourists’ Verdict……..

Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei Explains Lebanon STL Tribunal……….

Nasrallah, the Frustrated Richelieu of Lebanon……..

Israeli Tango in Lebanon: Dismantling Spy Networks and Swiss Cheese………

American Dreams and Hezbollah Realities, Sorrows of Young Feltman………

Bushehr in Beirut: Hezbollah Wants Lebanon to go Nuclear………….

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