Commentary Archive:  War in the Middle East

 

 

 

 

Democracy Now Interview: Fox News Producer Resigns Over Middle East Coverage

 

 

Rachard Itani: It Ain't Over - What Did and Didn't Happen in Lebanon

 

 

John Walsh: AIPAC Congratulates Itself for Slaughter in Lebanon

 

 

Mark Williams: The Lebanon War and the Democratization of Missile Technology

 

 

Robert Fisk: Behind the Lies of Bush and Blair

 

 

Merav Yudilovitch: An Interview with Noam Chomsky on Lebanon

 

 

Jonathan Cook: Real Photo Fakers - Real War Crimes

 

 

Daily Star Editorial: All Lebanon Wants from Syria is a Deed to Shebaa Farms

 

 

Amira Hass: Nasrallah Didn't Mean To

 

 

Dan Rabinowitz: The Pitfalls of Machismo

 

 

Zaina Arafat: Hezbollah Doesn't Speak for Lebanon

 

 

Pat Buchanan: Olmert's War, and the Next One

 

 

Madeleine Bunting: The Venomous Media Voices Who Think No Muslim is Worth Talking To

 

 

Lionel Shriver: Would the World Really Be a Better Place Without Israel?

 

 

Robert Fisk: Israel Wasn't Hoping For This

 

 

Ralph Nader: Bush to Israel - Take Your Time Destroying Lebanon

 

 

Chris Floyd: It's Bigger Than the Neo-Cons

 

 

Trish Schuh: How Reports of the July12th Capture Soon Shifted From Lebanon to Israel

 

 

George Galloway: The SkyNews Debate Transcript

 

 

Andrew Ford Lyons: Why Hezbollywood Was Born

 

 

Akiva Eldar: We Told Olmert the Army is Hollow

 

 

Nadim Shehadi: Israel Should Pack Up and Go

 

 

Avraham Tal: The Anatomy of Hating Israel

 

 

Steven Simon: Some Ideas on How to Disarm Hezbollah

 

 

George Monbiot: In a Military Democracy, it is the Warriors Who Call the Shots

 

 

Harold Evans: We Must Stand Up to Islamo-Fascism

 

 

Arne Jernelov: Cedar and Asbestos

 

 

Lee Smith: Invincible?

 

 

Ann Zwicker Kerr: The Murder of American Values in Lebanon

 

 

The Nation Editorial: Crisis in Lebanon

 

 

Ian Williams: Ceasefire and Frustration

 

 

William Greider: Fear and Smear

 

 

Democracy Now Interview: No Shelters, Sirens for Israel's Arab Citizens

 

 

Robert Fisk: The Truce That Won't Last

 

 

Karim Makdisi: The Flaws in the UN Resolution

 

 

Mike Whitney: The Litani Gambit - Ceasefire or Trojan Horse?

 

 

Goretti Horgan: Irish Anti-War Activists Face Terrorism Charges

 

 

Yossi Kuperwasser: What Israel Has Done for the US Lately

 

 

Kathy Kelly: Approaching a Ceasefire

 

 

Uri Avnery: What the Hell Happened to the Israeli Army?

 

 

Seymour Hersh: Watching Lebanon - Washington's Interests in Israel's War

 

 

Henri J. Barkey: Why America Wants Hezbollah Beaten Even More Than Israel Does

 

 

Amir Oren: A Ridiculous Idea

 

 

Akiva Eldar: Olmert Should Stay

 

 

Max Hastings: Bush's Belief in a Global Islamist Conspiracy is Foolish

 

 

Martin Jacques: American Support May No Longer Be Enough

 

 

Faisal Bodi: Too Stubborn to Change

 

 

Interview With US Sgt. Who Went AWOL For 1 Year in Protest of War in Iraq

 

 

Jean Bricmont: The De-Zionization of the American Mind

 

 

Robert Fisk: How London's Terror Scare Looks From Beirut

 

 

Adrian Grima: Forget the 50 Civilians - How Lebanon Looks From Malta

 

 

Barucha Peller: The Proximity of Death - Letter From Lebanon

 

 

Omar Barghouti: Lessons from Palestine and Lebanon

 

 

Conn Hallinan: How the Irish Could Save the Middle East

 

 

Ari Shavit: Olmert Cannot Remain in the Prime Minister's Office

 

 

Henry Porter: The Land of the Free - But Free Speech is a Rare Commodity

 

 

Peter Beaumont: Nobody's Victory, But in the End Israel Could Not Defeat Hezbollah

 

 

Richard Reeves: Today's Terrorist, Tomorrow's Statesman?

 

 

Susan Estrich: Does Racial Profiling Make Us Safer?

 

 

Hillel Neuer: Where Israel Still = Racism

 

 

Caroline Glick: Why Israel Must Win

 

 

David Self: Face to Faith

 

 

Zvi Bar'el: Fouad Siniora - Man With a Three-Track Mind

 

 

Irshad Manji: Now For Some Good News About Islam

 

 

Soumaya Ghannoushi: Driving the World to Insanity

 

 

Caleb Carr: A War of Escalating Errors

 

 

Henri Picciotto: Jewish Dissidents Must Challenge Israel

 

 

Dave Lindorff: War Crimes in Lebanon

 

 

Rep. Cynthia McKinney: Something is Happening Around the World

 

 

Azmi Bishara: When the Skies Rain Death

 

 

Israeli Ambassador Grilled on Cluster Bombs, Targeting of Lebanese Civilians

 

 

Israel Harel: The Scapegoat

 

 

Karma Nabulsi: The Refugees Fury Will Be Felt For Generations to Come

 

 

Maryam Mir: US is Turning its Back on Civilians in Lebanon

 

 

Shlomo Avineri: Lebanon's Problem is Not Just Shaba Farms

 

 

Hamid Dabashi: How Do We Sleep While Beirut is Burning

 

 

Lucy Fielder: SOS Lebanon

 

 

Sidney Zion: Stumbling Without Sharon

 

 

Ralph Peters: Ghost Towns of War

 

 

Jules Crittenden: Media Bias in Lebanon

 

 

Fred Kaplan: Does Bush Understand His Own Foreign Policy?

 

 

Uri Avnery: The Buck Stops Where?

 

 

Tom Hayden: Iraq is Dying

 

 

Jon Wiener: Israeli Doves Challenge the War

 

 

Robert Scheer: Why We Don't Know Our Enemy

 

 

Jennifer Loewenstein: Awakening the Resistance

 

 

Ari Berman: Robertson's Latest Crusade

 

 

Helena Cobban: For a Lasting Middle East Peace, Look Back to 1967

 

 

Ahmad Samih Khalidi: It is Lebanon, not Israel, that Faces a Threat to its Existence

 

 

Martin Bell: Connecting the Dots

 

 

Akiva Eldar: Between Cholera and the Plague

 

 

Imad Shakur: Mabruk, Israel

 

 

Ari Shavit: It's Time for Truth, Not Spin

 

 

Daily Star Editorial: Off-the-Cuff Relief Has Been Great But Could be Better

 

 

Binyamin Netanyahu: Comment - Not Too Late to Win

 

 

Ran Cohen: Comment - A Wretched Decision

 

 

Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora: End This Tragedy Now

 

 

Jonathan Cook: Hypocrisy and the Clamor Against Hezbollah

 

 

Gilad Atzmon: Operation Security Roof

 

 

Mshari Al-Zaydi: Siniora's Tears

 

 

Jerusalem Post Editorial: Paying the Price

 

 

Anne Bayefsky: Kofi Annan to Hezbollah's Rescue?

 

 

Chicago Tribune Editorial: Iraq and Arab Pride

 

 

Rajan Menon: Kiss Iraq Goodbye if Shiites Align With Hezbollah

 

 

Daniel Goldhagen: Israel's Way Out

 

 

Robert Fisk: What Do You Say to a Man Whose Family is Buried Under the Rubble?

 

 

Robert Fisk: Israel's Promise of Humanitarian Corridors is Exposed as a Sham

 

 

Vali Nasr: After Lebanon, There's Iran

 

 

Pat Buchanan: Condi's "New Middle East"

 

 

David Goldberg: Israeli Force Can Stop the Rockets, But For How Long?

 

 

Brian Whitaker: World to End on August 22nd

 

 

Mohamed Abdel Salam: Hezbollah - Heroic and Divisive in the Arab 'Street'

 

 

Gideon Samet: At Five After the War

 

 

Riad Ali: In the Name of Allah

 

 

Tim Llewellyn: Into the Valley of Death

 

 

USA Today: World Leaders Press On, but Path to Peace Uncertain

 

 

Sandy Tolan: 'Moment of Opportunity:' Yes, but Only If US Ask Israel the Hard Questions

 

 

Nadav Morag: A Tale of Two Failed Mideast States

 

 

The Nation: Mad Mel - Beyond Hezbollah

 

 

Jeffrey Gedmin: Hangin' With Hezbollah

 

 

Lee Smith: Scenes From an Israeli Deli

 

 

George Monbiot: Israel Responded to an Unprovoked Attack by Hezbollah, Right? Wrong

 

 

Rachel Shteir: The Shame of America

 

 

John Sfakianakis: The Real Price of Lebanon's 'Victory'

 

 

Yoel Marcus: Little Satan Has Big Teeth

 

 

Dan Ben-David: From War, An Opportunity

 

 

Caroline Glick: Our World - Talkin' About a Revolution

 

 

Jerusalem Post Editorial: Corrective Tactics

 

 

Boaz Ganor: Syria is the Key

 

 

Salim El Hoss: An Open Letter to the American President

 

 

George Beres: The Lebanon War Exposes Strange Religious Bedfellows

 

 

Magan Wiles: Encounter at an Israeli Checkpoint

 

 

Sharon Smith: Birth Pangs and Dead Babies

 

 

Karim Makdisi: The Draft UN Resolution on Lebanon

 

 

Robert Fisk: This Draft Shows Who is Running America's Policy - Israel

 

 

Jonathan Chait: The Logic of Force

 

 

Mark Seddon: Playing the Blame Game

 

 

Norman Birnbaum: Is Israel Good for the Jews?

 

 

Uri Avnery: The Black Flag

 

 

Jennifer Conlin: Can Beirut Make Another Comeback?

 

 

Newsweek: Eye For an Eye - Inside the New Hezbollah

 

 

Tracy Wilkinson: Israeli Soldiers Expected Lesser Foe

 

 

Washington Post: Interview with Shimon Peres

 

 

Nick Cohen: Our Men Are Dying at the Hands of Enemies Abroad and Friends at Home

 

 

Rowan Williams: The Voices of the Innocent Must Be Heard Above the Din of War

 

 

Robert Pape: What We Still Don't Understand About Hezbollah

 

 

Uzi Benziman: Cease Fire Immediately

 

 

Haaretz Editorial: Escalation Before the End

 

 

Virginia Tilley: The Case for Boycotting Israel

 

 

Patrick Cockburn: Yes, it is a Crusade - Tony Blair's Mad Speech About Iraq

 

 

Peter Bouckaert: For Israel, Innocent Civilians Are Fair Game

 

 

Pat Buchanan: On Talking With Terrorists

 

 

Annia Ciezadlo: Dreams Deferred in Lebanon

 

 

Norman Lamont: The Limits of Force

 

 

Daily Star Editorial: Fools Rush into Another Quagmire

 

 

Jimmy Carter: Stop the Band-Aid Treatment

 

 

Niranjan Ramakrishnan: The Fig (Leaflet) of Warning

 

 

Victor Davis Hanson: Middle East Crisis Not Just About Land

 

 

LA Times Editorial: Turkey's Balancing Act

 

 

Imad Moustapha (Syrian Ambassador to the US) - Stop Ignoring Us!

 

 

Eliza Ernshire: No Lights in Gaza

 

 

Brian Cloughley: Osama Has Won - Hatred of the US is Now Universal

 

 

Roger Assaf: Adjusting the Heroic Commando Raid Story

 

 

Sanam Vakil: For Iran, a Most Welcome Proxy War

 

 

Yossi Melman: A Smart, Successful War

 

 

Ze'ev Schiff: Stay Out of the Lebanese Quagmire

 

 

Kevin Sites: The Great Game

 

 

Patrick Lang: Israeli Defense Forces - All They Can Be?

 

 

Daniel Schorr: Game Point - Hezbollah Wins Sympathy

 

 

Arianna Huffington: Ehud Olmert - Wise Man or Bush Clone?

 

 

Joe Conason: In Israel as in Iraq, There is No Strategy

 

 

Larry Elder: Islamofascism - An Enemy Like No Other

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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