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Archives for July 2006

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Israeli Hizbullah Battles In Deep

Israeli Hizbullah Battles In Deep

Juan Cole

Israeli-Hizbullah Battles in Deep South Israelis Bombed Qana while Relief and Rescue troops worked Update: Israeli war planes conducted further air raids Monday morning, despite Israeli officials’ earlier pledge to cease for 48 hours. The Israelis bombed a car with a Lebanese Army officer and soldiers, killing him. They have repeatedly bombed Lebanese army bases […]

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What Is Hizbullah Western And Israeli

What Is Hizbullah Western And Israeli

Juan Cole

What is Hizbullah? Western and Israeli pundits keep comparing Hizbullah to al-Qaeda. It is a huge conceptual error. There is a crucial difference between an international terrorist network like al-Qaeda, which can be disrupted by good old policing techniques (such as inserting an agent in the Western Union office in Karachi), and a sub-nationalist movement. […]

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Sistani Threatens Us Over Israeli War

Sistani Threatens Us Over Israeli War

Juan Cole

Sistani Threatens US over Israeli War on Lebanon The US punditocracy and ruling elite is fixated on Hizbullah as a “terrorist group” even though the organization hasn’t engaged in international terror against American civilians in many years. What they forget about Hizbullah is that it is also a Shiite religious party, and that that is […]

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Why Mel Gibson Is Wrong It Is Not Very

Why Mel Gibson Is Wrong It Is Not Very

Juan Cole

Why Mel Gibson is Wrong It is not very important or interesting that a Hollywood star has substance abuse problems. But the alleged sentiment expressed by Mel Gibson to the police who arrested him, as follows, is worth some comment: ‘ “Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began […]

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Qana Massacre Part Ii Israeli War

Qana Massacre Part Ii Israeli War

Juan Cole

The Qana Massacre, Part II Israeli war planes scored a direct hit on a building in the Shiite village of Qana where destitute farming folk, including old people, women and children, had taken refuge in the basement from Israeli bombing raids. At least 60 are dead, as bodies are pulled from the rubble. 19 children […]

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Renewed Israeli Airstrikes Kill Family

Renewed Israeli Airstrikes Kill Family

Juan Cole

Renewed Israeli Airstrikes Kill Family, Others, Wound 2 UN Troops; Nasrallah Vows Longer Range Rocket Strikes The Israelis continued air strikes on Saturday. Naharnet.com carries this via AFP and AP: ‘Elsewhere, Israeli warplanes demolished houses, killing seven people, including a woman and her five children . . . Lebanese civilians have born the brunt of […]

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Over Dozen Dead In Civil War Violence

Over Dozen Dead In Civil War Violence

Juan Cole

Over a Dozen Dead in Civil War Violence Khafaji denounces Maliki for Visit to Bush Guerrillas detonated a car bomb in Kirkuk on Saturday, killing four persons and wounding 15. There have been lots of bombings in the volatile multi-ethnic oil city recently, and some worry about a sectarian war breaking out there. Turkish troops […]

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Blair And Rhetoric Of False

Blair And Rhetoric Of False

Juan Cole

Blair and the Rhetoric of False Equivalence The techniques of propaganda were on full display during the joint news conference of George W. Bush and British PM Tony Blair on Friday. Blair began by saying, ‘ What is happening in the Middle East at the moment is a complete tragedy for Lebanon, for Israel and […]

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Islands In Arabia Patrick Mcgreevy

Islands In Arabia Patrick Mcgreevy

Juan Cole

Islands in Arabia Patrick McGreevy writes from Beirut: ‘ Islands in Arabia Sitting on my balcony staring down at the Sea Gate of the American University of Beirut, and to the Mediterranean beyond, I am in no danger. The bombs are in the distance. The fighting is in the south. In Tel Aviv, Israeli citizens […]

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