Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
The Danger of Peace
“They were fighting for the last 2000 years, they can’t go on for more long” Adam Sandler’s mom, in the Zohan (www.dontmesswiththezohan.com) while the movie producer presents a happy-ending, the reality of current events does not. It seems like somebody, somewhere (actually, here) saw the danger of peace, and took some actions to destroy it. [...]
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Iran’s new Mission of Conflict
Tension in Lebanon between Hezbollah and its rivals mounted yesterday with the Shiite faction’s leader threatening “war”. Militants of Hezbollah entered rival Sunnis’ neighborhoods and took control of key strategic points. They cut off local TV channels and destroyed a newspaper publishing office, which happens to be owned by Coalition members according to reports from [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
A Turbulent Cradle for Mankind
This is one humble layman’s arduous journey to understand the overwhelmingly complex political history of the Cradle of Civilization and its surrounding peoples in antiquity. To set the scene, this historical account will cover the geographical area bordered in the north by the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains in modern Armenia; to the south [...]
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
What do you mean when you say No?
The following statements and international communication messages and their timing could be a small miscommunication. But it could also be a bad part of the history of our time. These miscommunication practices could simply begin a good start for the next war in the Middle-East.
Friday, 18th April: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz last week [...]
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
What Does Nasarallah Want?
Following the assassination of Imad Mughniyah on Tuesday night in Syria, Hassan Nasarallah, the leader of Hezbollah (“God’s Legion” in Arabic) threatened Israel in a very unique speech over the Al-Jazzera and Hezbollah TV networks.
Sheik Nasarallah; the man to blame for struggling Lebanon. Image courtesy of Flickr user delayed gratification published under the CC [...]
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