Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

Nearly six hours after UNIFIL acknowledged that IDF troops were removing trees on the Israeli side of the border, the Guardian still has a...

The katyusha rockets fired at the northern Israeli town of Nahariya today from southern Lebanon have raised the stakes of the current confli...

Some very brief, related and unrelated thoughts on the news from today about peace talks with Syria. 1. Contrary to the claims of Shelly Yac...

The reports from Beirut look eerily similar not only to scenes from the annals of Lebanese civil war but also to what we saw in Gaza before ...

(Click to enlarge. Go to the link for even more detail. Map: Perry-Castaneda) Today, what appears to have been a suicide car bombing killed ...

As'ad AbuKhalil has been trying to explain his political theology to his mother: Knowing of my views against the very existence of Leba...

International media would have had a field day with this, if someone had found a similar quotation from an Israeli citizen ( NYT ): Many res...

Sunset in the north (January 2006) One of the obstacles to negotiations with Syria frequently cited by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is...

The "toxic" balloons Jeha has already reported on this, but the story seems to be spinning out of a control, with even Bad Vilbel...

From the FPM website: apparently the guy on the groundis a 65-year-old (Aoun supporter?) being kicked by a Lebanese Forces member ( tayyar.o...

Michel Aoun at a meeting with Condoleeza Rice in July 2005 (Source: Dept. of State ) Michael Totten recently published an excellent piece e...

"Sorry guys, I screwed up." As you have probably all heard by now, Nasrallah recently apologized for being an idiot and having his...

I was looking for some Lebanese coverage of recent events and came across this unrelated article in the Lebanese Daily Star: Palestinians ma...

Picture taken at from an anti-American demonstration held by Lebanese supporters of Hizbullah and Syria in January 2006. Courtesty of "...

(Photo: Nasrallah and his buddy Noam from MIT - www.danielpipes.org) I've become quite a fan of some of the critical pieces that have be...

"Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah repeated on Tuesday his warning that the resistance had 'thousands' of rockets capabl...

See my earlier post on this below. Reuters reports that Lebanese PM Siniora is asking Secretary General Kofi Annan to "confirm the spec...

Just saw Lebanese PM Siniora on CSPAN. A lot of waffling. Obviously he couldn't really say anything substantive about questions like Ira...