Hizbullah’s victory has transformed the Middle East

Hizbullah’s victory has transformed the Middle East
George Galloway Beirut
The Guardian
31 Aug 2006

As the smoke clears from the battlefield of the 34-day war in Lebanon, it would be a mistake to count the cost only in fallen masonry and fresh graves. All is changed, changed utterly, by the defeat that the whole of Israel is now debating, from the... read more...

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Hizbullah’s victory has transformed the Middle East

Hizbullah’s victory has transformed the Middle East
George Galloway Beirut
The Guardian
31 Aug 2006

As the smoke clears from the battlefield of the 34-day war in Lebanon, it would be a mistake to count the cost only in fallen masonry and fresh graves. All is changed, changed utterly, by the defeat that the whole of Israel is now debating, from the... read more...

Related:
A good cease-fire

Tech Tags: The Guardian newspaper Comment&Debate

The Arab world’s silence has left the last word to those we call extremists

The Arab world’s silence has left the last word to those we call extremists
Alain Gresh
The Guardian
22 Aug 2006

Killers slaughter dozens of civilians in Iraq every day just because they are Sunni Muslims. Suicide attacks are increasingly common in Afghanistan, where they used to be unknown. On the Gaza Strip, 1.5 million Palestinians are caught in a trap, hemmed... read more...

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The Original Political Animal

The Original Political Animal
“We’re Americans, but blue state Americans.”
The Wall Street Journal Europe
21 Aug 2006

Here’s the deal: In 1487, Lorenzo the Magnificent wants a giraffe from Africa to impress the good citizens of Florence, plus a cardinal’s hat for his 13-year-old son. The hat must come from the pope in Rome, of course, Innocent VIII. In return for thus... read more...

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This fear may at last rid us of the curse of hyper-mobility

This fear may at last rid us of the curse of hyper-mobility
Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
16 Aug 2006

Astick of lipstick is a killer. A tube of toothpaste is high explosive. Baby's milk is poison. A nailfile is key to mass destruction. For the first time since the Spanish Inquisition a book is a proscribed weapon of war. Such is the infinite delicacy... read more...

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Bush’s belief in a worldwide Islamist conspiracy is foolish and dangerous

Bush’s belief in a worldwide Islamist conspiracy is foolish and dangerous
Max Hastings
The Guardian
14 Aug 2006

George Bush sometimes sounds more like the Mahdi, preaching jihad against infidels, than the leader of a western democracy. In his regular radio address to the American people on Saturday he linked the British alleged aircraft plotters with Hizbullah... read more...

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Sudan’s China Syndrome

Sudan’s China Syndrome
By Ronan Farrow
The Wall Street Journal Europe
11 Aug 2006

EL FASHER, Sudan—In a squalid hut in Zam Zam refugee camp, 16-year-old Salim Adam swats flies from the livid scar where a bullet tore through his leg. Two years ago, Mr. Adam was farming with his father when the Janjaweed, a Sudanese government-backed... read more...

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For six bucks, you can save a stranger’s life

For six bucks, you can save a stranger’s life
NANCY NASSEF FOR THECALGARYHERALD
Calgary Herald
08 Aug 2006

Two things never fail to irritate me — the bonechill of winter and the ever-hum of mosquitoes. Too bad for me that winter and mosquitoes are inversely proportional — I shall always be stuck with one or the other. Now that the mosquito season is with... read more...

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Wemust fight our instinctive distaste for mercenaries

Wemust fight our instinctive distaste for mercenaries
Max Hastings
The Guardian
02 Aug 2006

Arecession is looming in a sector of the economy you may be barely conscious of, PSCs. Since 2003 private security companies have been a great British success story. Worldwide, but notably in Iraq, businesses founded by and employing ex-soldiers have... read more...