Category Archives: lebanon

Not Another War on Lebanon

My old friend Norman Finkelstein has just written a foreword to a new edition of his first-rate book on the…

The United States had credited Mougnieh with the 1983 bombing of its embassy in Beirut and the destruction of the…

Edward Luttwak is right that the middle east is not important enough to fight over. That’s why the US should…

Israel should have known better. Even before abandoning their bases inside Lebanon in 2000, the Israelis had been unable to…

In his memoir, Not So Wild a Dream, the famous CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid recalled watching the execution of six…

In the summer of 1982, while Lebanon was under Israeli attack as it is now, Pamela Cooper worked tirelessly helping…

In 1982, an unusual sight appeared on the Mediterranean horizon. Like the death ship in Star Wars, a World War…

In December 1968, Israeli commandos destroyed 13 aircraft of Lebanon’s national carrier, Middle East Airlines, at Beirut airport. Why? One…

After all, who didn’t go through the most improbable adventure during the civil war? – Mikhail Bulgakov, Black Snow When…

Tony Blair may have put his finger on the obstacle to freeing Ken Bigley from his captors in Iraq when…