Category Archives: Lebanon

Wednesday briefs

If you’ve lost Joe Klein, you’ve lost Middle Europe: When even Time magazine correspondents are commenting on how crappy the deal between Fatah and Hamas is, you know that it stinks really, really, really badly. Check the skies for flying … Continue reading

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The late Monday briefs

Seriously? I mean, seriously? They detained a sitting senator because of the TSA security theater bullshit? I’m not flying again until the TSA is gone. It’s not anti-Zionism: When an Islamic cleric calls for the death of Jews, and says … Continue reading

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Briefs and then some

Intifada III, or testing the waters? Another Palestinian caught with another lot of pipe bombs. I think it’s the latter. Sigh. Cyberwar. Hackers striking Israeli sites again, and a retaliation promised. No good is going to come of this, and … Continue reading

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Late Monday briefs

So, how much you figure he paid his people to vote for him? Oh, look. A little-read magazine touts an online poll as “person of the year,” and it turns out it’s: Turkey’s prime ministerErdogan, the man responsible for bringing … Continue reading

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Friday briefs

So, how’s that 1701 working out for you? Hizballah is still targeting UN peacekeepers, this time probably for telling the world that the rockets fired last week were in violation of UNSCR 1701, which forbids arms and weapons south of … Continue reading

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Friday morning exhausted briefs

Yeah, you try driving to NJ and back in one day and see if you don’t get home late and tired, particularly if you have to stop four times on the way for your elderly mother, and then wait for … Continue reading

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Wednesday briefs

But Karl Vick said Hamas is moderating! Yeah, not so much. Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas is not serious about reconciling with political rival Hamas despite public statements to the contrary, a senior Hamas official said in an interview published … Continue reading

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Tuesday morning briefs

We don’t need no steenking international law: Iran is once again violating the code of nations (but I repeat myself). “Protestors” stormed the British embassy grounds in Tehran. The Brits are probably smart enough to have evacuated the embassy, what … Continue reading

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Post T-day briefs

Faster on that Leviathan field, please: Jihadis blew up the Sinai gas line again. (By the way, morons, you also deprive Jordan of gas and Egypt of desperately-needed money.) And they’re apparently massing to fight their fellows for a change, … Continue reading

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Your pre-Thanksgiving briefs

Wounded Iraq War vet wins Dancing With the Stars: J.R. Martinez, whom I know from All My Children, won the big prize on the show that I don’t watch (but Mom does, and I told her he would win). Next … Continue reading

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Monday afternoon briefs

So, are we still sending funds and technology to Lebanon, then? Hizballah has found CIA spies in its midst, and it makes you wonder: Did the technology we gave Lebanon in the past few years–the tech that helped them find … Continue reading

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Friday morning briefs

Baby Assad is shaking in his booties: Sic semper tyrannis, dude. The fall of Kadaffy is energizing the Syrian opposition. (Really, do all the news services have to run that gross picture of dead/dying Kadaffy? Yes, he deserved it, but—ew.) … Continue reading

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Thursday, briefly

Treaty? What treaty? Egypt is deliberately breaking its treaty with Israel and flaunting it. Permission? We don’t need no steenking permission to patrol the Sinai? It’s good to know that an Arab nation keeps its written promises after the Islamists … Continue reading

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Sunday holiday briefs

In other news, water is wet: Really? Juan and Eva Peron, the political heads of post-war Argentina, gave Nazi war criminals asylum? And this comes as a surprise to anyone? Hello, Eichmann kidnapping, anyone? I’ll believe it when I see … Continue reading

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Friday night briefs

Orwell would be proud: War is peace, bad is good, and Lebanon is on the UN Security Council, and therefore, prevented the UNSC from condemning the terror attack on Israel. Why? Because Lebanon would only vote for a “balanced” resolution … Continue reading

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