Review of From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. I have witnessed what Bernard Lewis, and…
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Iraq 2003, Lebanon 1982
People cheered when the United States Marines marched into the capital. At last, someone would restore order, remove the thugs…
Continue reading →The lessons of Lebanon
People cheered when the US marines marched into the capital. At last someone would restore order, remove the thugs and…
Continue reading →Sharon, the failed kingmaker
Voices in Israel, including within Ariel Sharon’s cabinet, are calling on their prime minister to crown his reconquista of the…
Continue reading →Bound and gagged
The first thing they do is cover your eyes. They make you strip to make sure you’re not carrying anything.…
Continue reading →The scene is set for another Lebanon
Another Palestinian has killed himself in Jerusalem. He was walking towards the David Citadel Hotel in King David Street, where…
Continue reading →The first casualty
IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast.…
Continue reading →‘I was a victim of Assad’s regime’
IN 1987, following the kidnapping of Terry Waite, Hafez al-Assad moved his army down from Mount Lebanon into the Lebanese…
Continue reading →When in doubt, just bomb Lebanon
When Israel gets angry, try not to be Lebanese. It doesn’t seem to matter who provokes Israel’s wrath, its government…
Continue reading →Love’s Lebanon lost – Beirut, Lebanon before the war
Those who knew Beirut’s great cultural bazaar before the war mourn for their mythic society
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