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Opinions & Editorials posted on this site for the last three months

Barack Obama: Christian In Name Only (CINO)?/By
John Lillpop/August
22/10

Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir preaches message of
co-existence during pastoral visit to Deir al-Ahmar/Daily Star/August
21/10
Geagea tried; Hezbollah won’t listen/By:Hanin
Ghaddar/August 21/10
Many possible Israeli concessions would be
suicidal/By George F. Will/Washington Post/August 21/10
Iran or Islam? In Tehran That is the Question/By
Amir Taheri/August 21/10
Obama’s Mosque/By Diana Mukkaled/August
21/10
country’s military creates ‘Lebanese town’ for
training to prepare for confrontation/By:Matti Friedman/August
21/10

Dr. Samir Geagea's defense plane that he submitted
during the dialogue session/August
20/10
Arming Hizballah? U.S. Military Assistance to
Lebanon/By David Schenker/August
20/10
Keeping us quiet, for heaven’s sake/By: Michael
Young/August
20/10US
assures Israel on Iran's bomb plans/Agencies
Will Israel bomb
Bushehr?/By: Ana Maria Luca/August 19/10

US ends Iraq war, leaves
two civil conflicts on the boil/DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis/August
19/10
The moderate Muslim
threat/By: Shaul Rosenfeld/August
19/10

The Tricks of Hezbollah/By: Ryan Mauro/August
18/10
Open letter to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah from Adel
Nassar/August
18/10
Michel Aoun in his Syrianized betrayal
stances/Agencies/August
18/10
Strong state can protect Lebanon/By Jamil K.
Mroue/August
18/10

The Ground Zero mosque, George Washington and
Rhode Island Jews/by Ed Koch/August
18/10
Obama and the mosque/By: Professor Eytan Gilboa/August
17/10
Our next war crime/Failure to prevent next war
with Syria is a crime/By: Eyal Megged/August
17/10
Op-ed: Failure to prevent next war with Syria is a crime; Israel must talk to
Assad now

A House of Worship or a Symbol of Destruction?/By
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid/August 17/10
Conspiracy and Justice in Lebanon/By Hussein
Shobokshi/August 17/10
Regarding What Nasrallah Said/By Diana
Mukkaled/August 17/10
STL/Holding our nerve/Now Lebanon/August
17/10

Hizbullah’s next target may be Lebanon/By: MEIR
JAVEDANFAR/August
16/10
New Opinion: Holding our nerve/By:Michael Karam/August
16/10
Hassan Nasrallah/A man with a matchbox/By: Smadar
Peri/August
16/10
Muslim Cleric Calls for Jihad, Coptic Christians
Attacked in Egypt/(AINA)/August 15/10
Government at risk of collapse if STL indicts
Hizbullah/By: Mariam Karouny/August
15/10
Underestimating our enemies/By: By DAVID
HOROVITZ/August 15/10

Lebanon Positioned to Take a Beating/By Anthony
Tsontakis/American Thinker/August
15/10
Netanyahu's warning/By George F. Will/W.Post/August
15/10
Don’t resurrect Lebanon’s death penalty/By Nadim
Houry & Sirine Shebaya/August
14/10

A sign of the times,Lebanon’s billboards reflect
deeper troubles/Farrah Zughni/August
14/10
Oppose the Ground Zero Mosque?/by Aymenn Jawad
Al-Tamimi/American Thinker/August
14/10
Et tu, Brute (Even you, Brutus)?/By: Ana Maria Luca/August
14/10
MP, Nadim Gemayel: Hassan Nasrallah was not
convincing/NNA/August
13/10
Israel may unilaterally attack Iran's N-facilities:
Report/Translate into/August
13/10
Lebanon and Nasrallah's TrinityAsharq
Alawsat/August 13/10
The unnecessary Lebanon war/By: By Amir
Taheri/Al-Ahram Weekly/August 13/10
Downward, Christian soldiers/By: Michael Young/August
13/10
Hizbullah: Hating Israel and Palestinians/By
MUDAR ZAHRAN/August
13/10
Why Hezbollah Is Edging Closer to War/By Meir
Javedanfar/August
13/10
Hassan Nasrallah’s guide to memory loss/By: Michael
Young/August
12/10
Nasrallah’s speech fails to meet high
expectations/By:Natacha Yazbeck/August 12/10

Nasrallah has no smoking gun tying Israel to
Hariri murder/By Avi Issacharoff & Amos Harel/August 12/10
If US cuts Lebanon Army aid, would Hezbollah's
sponsor Iran step in?/By Nicholas Blanford/August
12/10
Washington Watch: Lebanon, friend or foe?/By: By
D. BLOOMFIELD/August
12/10

On hold/US temporarily blocks aid for LAF/By: Matt
Nash/ August 12/10

The Week Lebanon Became Part of the Anti-Western
Axis and West Governments Didn't Notice/By
Barry Rubin/August 11/10
Lebanon through the Prism of US-Syrian
Rapprochement/By: Jean-Pierre Katrib/August
11/10
Hezbollah on the defensive/By: Hanin Ghaddar/August
11/10
Hezbollah is Lebanon’s Sherlock Holmes/By:
Randa Takieddine/August 11/10
Aid to Lebanon is in the US’s best interest/The
National/August
11/10
Focus U.S.A. / Will Israel really attack Iran within a
year?/By: Natasha Mozgovaya/August
11/10
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah Monday press conference
text/Agencies/August
11/10
Send them to the gallows”/By: Hazem Saghiye/August
10/10
Enforce international law in Lebanon/By AVI
BEKER/JPost/August 09/10
Lebanon: Predictions of war and vain hopes/By:
Ami Isseroff/August 09/10

Will the Agents' Confessions Solve Lebanon's
Mysteries?/By Muhammad Diyab/August 09/10
Israel and the clash of Adaisseh/By: Abdullah
Iskandar/August 09/10
Lebanon: Hezbollah's way/By Mohamad Bazzi/August
08/10
Israel needs to rethink its Lebanon policyBy Amos
Harel and Avi Issacharoff /Haaretz/August
08/10
The Enemy of My Enemy/By ELLIOTT ABRAMS/August
07/10

Lines blur between Hezbollah, Lebanese army/By
Victor Kotsev/August 07/10

An Opportunity for Syrian-Israeli Peace/By: Alon
Ben-Meir/August 07/10

Middle East needs concrete solutions for peace,
stability/Xinhua/August 07/10
What To Do About Hizbullah?/By M.J. Rosenberg/August
07/10
United the government will stand/By: Matt Nash
and Nadine Elali/August
07/10
The truth about Lebanon/Giora Eiland/August
07/10

The World Council of the Cedars Revolution/Appointments
in Lebanon/06
August/10
The
Lebanon border and Hezbollah’s war footing/By Walid Phares/August
06/10
Too long on the front line/Now Lebanon/August
06/10
Israel accuses Lebanon’s Army of becoming
‘Hizbullized’/AFP/August
06/10

Direct to where?Al-Ahram
Weekly/August
06/10
Mideast Girds for an Epic Battle of Moderates
Versus Extremes/By Uri Goldflam/August 06/10
The Fayez Karam saga/By: Michael Young/August
06/10
Brushfire or Spark? Incident on the
Israel-Lebanon Border/ By David Schenker, Andrew J. Tabler, and Jeffrey White/August
06/10

Hezbollah’s relationship with the LAF/By: Nadim
Koteich/August
05/10
provocations
would lead to different kind of war/By:
Giora Eiland/August
05/10
Defense
Ministry official: Egypt will deal with Hamas/By:Amos Gilad/August
05/10
Lebanon: Face to Face with the Lebanese Crisis/By
Tariq Alhomayed/August
04/10
Saving Lebanon/By: Omayma Abdel-Latif/August
04/10

Britain's New Export: Islamist Carnage/by Daniel
Pipes/August
04/10
Lebanon's tribunal in the crossfireOmayma/By:
Abdel-Latif in Beirut/August
04/10
Turning up the heat on Iran/By
Victor Kotsev/August 03/10

Special tribunal on Hariri murder cannot be
trusted/By Linda S. Heard/August 03/10
Shimon Peres versus the Brits/by Efraim
Karsh/August 03/10
Tehran’s Hand in the Taliban/By: Matt Gurney/August
03/10

EU and Teheran: A Collision in Slow Motion/By
Jonathan Spyer/August 02/10
A clockwork orange/Now Lebanon/August 02/10
A sustained commitment/By Jamil K. Mroue/Daily
Star/August 02/10

Lebanon: The Cover and the Commitment/By:
Abdullah Iskandar/01 August/10
Syria
Marches Into Lebanon; Saudis Surrender to Inevitable, State Department Proclaims
Victory/By
Barry Rubin/August
01/10
Former
US House Speaker Newt Gingrich: Time for a New Strategy to Defeat Radical
Islamists/Newsmax./August
01/10
Calling out corruption/By: Sarah Lynch/August
01/10
Assad on Hariri probe: We'll stand by
Hezbollah/Israel News/July 31/10
Syria’s comeback to Lebanon/By: Hanin Ghaddar/July
31/10
Calm offers Lebanon a chance to mature/By Jamil
K. Mroue/July
31/10

Is a new war in the Middle East becoming
inevitable?/By Volker Perthes/July
31/10

General Aoun in his maze/By: Hazem al-Amin/July
30/10
Illusion and reality clash in Lebanon/By
JONATHAN SPYER/July 30/10
Is it goodbye, America?/By: Michael Young/July
30/10
Beirut summit unlikely to resolve basic differences/By Michael Bluhm/July
30/10

Is Middle East war inevitable?/By Volker Perthes/July 30/10
Delusion instead of solution/By:
Yoram Ettinger/July
29/10
Guess who’s coming to Baabda?/By: Matt Nash/ July
29/10
Danny Ayalon: The Flotilla Farce/By:
Danny Ayalon/Wall Street Journal/29 July/10
Playing three-ball billiards in BeirutBy Michael Young July 29/10
Reading into the region's future: A summer special offer/By:
Osama al-Sharif/Al-Arabiya/July 29/10
Iran’s Proxy Powder Keg/by Joseph Puder/July
28/10

Hizbullah may be in a corner, but it will still
fight/By: Paul Salem/July
28/10

Natural gas could lead to new Lebanon-Israel war/By:
Bassem Mroue/July
28/10
Druze Emigrants Congress/By: Mona Alami/July 28/10

Canada to impose tough new sanctions on
Iran/Globe and Mail/July
27/10

Canada's immigration door begins closing/By Elie
Nasrallah/July
27/10

How Arab leaders can help Lebanon/By Jamil K. Mroue/July
27/10

With America exiting, who matters in Iraq?/By:
Tony Badran/July 27/10
Where to, Mr. Pakradounian?/By: Sevag
Hagopian/July 27/10
Jumblat
Stresses Saudi-Syrian Consensus, Calls for Balancing between Justice, Truth/Naharnet
Jumblat to
Attend Dinner Banquet Hosted by Lahoud Today/Naharnet
Gemayel:
Lebanon Cannot Afford Security and Military Setbacks because it is Still in
Fragile Condition/Naharnet
The Sins of Damascus/By: Dr. Mordechai Nisan/July
26/10

On a Repentant Environment/By: Abdullah Iskandar/26
July 2010
The hallmarks of desperation/Now Lebanon/July 26/10

Nasrallah and Syria's acquittal/By: Tariq
Alhomaye/July 26/10
Will Hezbollah pass the test?/Khaleej
Times/July
25/10
Hezbollah
in a corner/By: Paul Salem/Khaleej
Times/July
25/10
The Lebanese-Syrian Network of Safety/By:
Walid Choucair/Al-Arabiya/July
25/10

Time to counter Assad/West must shun appeasement
vis-ŕ-vis Syria, regime change only viable option/By: Farid Ghadry/July
25/10

Before he is dead/By
Zvi Bar'el/July
25/10
/Naharnet
Extended but not settled, Mamoun Homsi’s visa
saga continues/By: Farrah Zughni July
25/10
Why is Nasrallah distressed?/By: Hanin Ghaddar/ July
24/10
Hizbullah
shares the blame/By Jamil K. Mroue/July 24/10
Are we fools to expect indictments soon?/By:
Michel Young/23
July/10
Egyptians must join in support of equality for
all religions/By Yasser Khalil/July
23/10

The fight that just won’t end/Matt Nash/July
23/10
Abu Adal’s prophecies/By: Elie Fawaz/July
23/10
Syria's Playing Cards/By:
Ali Ibrahim /Asharq Alawsat/July
22/10
Has Hassan Nasrallah been too hasty?/By Michael
Young/July 22/10
Bittersweet justice/Could indictments for
Hariri’s murder destroy internal stability/By:Paige Kollock/July 22/10
Dr. Geagea's MTV Interview/July 21/10
Risks of escalation in Lebanon/By:Paul
Salem/Al-Ahram Weekly/July
21/10
Fadlallah's perspective on Palestine/By: Mohsen Saleh/Al-Ahram
Weekly//July 21/10
IED kills Canadian soldier in Afghanistan Module
body/Canadian Press/21 July/10
Losing the Scent in South Lebanon/By Jonathan
Spyer/July 20/10
Short-term
interests occupy American-Israeli relations/By: Yossi Alpher/July 20/10
Turkey
plays out of its league/Tony
Badran/ July 20/10
New Opinion: Yet another plot/Now Lebanon/July 19/10
Hizballah
Prepares for War Based on Using Civilians as Shields/By Barry Rubin/ July
19/10
Does
the Palestinian leadership still desire to eliminate Israel?/By Barry Rubin/July
19/10
The Iranian Regime’s Numbered Days/By: Melik Kaylan/July
18/10
Lebanon
and the lack of security/By: Elie Fawaz/July
18/10
Sending
Hizbullah a message: Israel is ready/By YAAKOV KATZ/July 18/10
Nasrallah calls Tribunal 'Israeli project'/Daily Star/July
17/10
Who is sending Mamoun Homsi back to Syrian prison?/By:Hanin Ghaddar/July 17/10
Lebanon and the lack of security/By: Elie Fawaz/July
16/10
Beware
of Sudan's secessionist demons/By: Chibli Mallat/July
16/10
An
influential little war/By: Nicholas Lowry/July 16/10
Why Israel Shouldn't Attack Iranian Nuclear
Installations--Unless It Has to Do So/By Barry Rubin/July 15/10

Turkey's foreign policy aims at a new regional
hegemony/By Shlomo Avineri/July
15/10

What is
Behind the Lebanese Opposition’s Attacks on France?By:Randa
Takieddine/July 14/10
What
Muslim Scientific Achievements?/By: Andrea Billups/July 14/10
Obama Cleanses the Terrorism Glossary/By: Rowan
Scarborough/July 14/10

Lebanon/Airport security, or lack thereof/By: Aline
Sara/July
14/10
The Islamic Revolution is still alive/By: Tony
Badran/July
14/10
Jamil as-Sayyed’s special request/By: Arthur
Blok/July 13/10
Delusions and Truths in South Lebanon/By:
Elias Harfoush/July 12/10
Bad for business 101/Now Lebanon/July 12, 2010
The Forgotten Minority/By: Jonathan Spyer/ July 11/10
Iran’s Global Terrorist Reach/By
Dr. Walid Phares/July
10/10
David Harris: Canada feeds the haters/National
Post/July 09/10

Open Letter From the UNIFIL force commander to the
people of south Lebanon/Friday, July 09, 2010

Iran is keeping a tight rein on Nasrallah and
Hezbollah/By Yossi Melman/Ha'aretz/July
09/10
Barriers to peace/By Jack A Smith/July 09/10

Hezbollah grows up/By
Avi Issacharoff/Ha'aretz/July
09/10
Obama’s new approach/By: Eytan Gilboa/July
08/10

Under pressure/Ana Maria Luca and Mona Alami/July
08/10
Potential Lebanese- Israeli Conflict over Natural
Gas Revisited/By Ghassan Karam/yalibnan/July
08/10
Analysis: The IDF intel/By YAAKOV KATZ/July
08/10

UNIFIL are Peacekeepers, not a Cat’s-Paw
among States/Randa
Takieddine/July 06/10
The Hezbollah-al-Qaeda connection/By: Mona Alami, J/July
06/10
Hezbollah logistics network rounded up in
Mexico/Ha'aretz/July
06/10
Canada Urges Iran to Halt Imminent Executions/July
06/10
BBC/Who are Hezbollah?/July
05/10
A US-Iran faceoff will hurt Lebanon/Daily Star/July
05/10
UNIFIL needs a charm offensive/By Oussama Safa/July
05/10

Containing Iran Requires Getting Smart, Tough,
and Serious/By: Barry Rubin/July 05/10
Sheikh Falallah was the terrorist
mastermind behind the Lebanon hostage crisis/By
Con Coughlin/05 July/10

Roadblocks to Damascus/By:
Frederick Deknatel/The
Nation/July
05/10
No war this summer/By: Alex Fishman/Ynetnews/July
05/10
Moderates or terrorists?/By: Dan Calic/Ynetnews/July
05/10
Syria posts Iranian radar atop tall Lebanese
peak/DEBKA file/July
04/10
Iran fails in S. Lebanon/By: Ahmed Al-Jarallah/Arab
Times/July
04/10
Draft law sparks debate in ICT sector/By: Matt
Nash/July
04/10

US-Iran dynamic: Why US effort to leverage Syria is
flagging/By: Nicholas Blanford/July
04/10
They are scared of Hezbollah/By:
Hanin Ghaddar/July
03/10
The Hariri tribunal is so inept,
it almost seems deliberate/By:Michael Young/July
03/10
Political Lightness in Lebanon/By:
Walid Choucair/ 02 July 2010
Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu, Did
They See the Picture?/By Tariq Alhomayed/July
03/10
Gulf between Lebanon's rich and poor getting
deeper /Monsters and
Critics.com/02 June/10
Arabs and Israelis misread Turkey/Daily Star/02
June/10
Mr. Baroud, again, please stop the killing/By:
Michael Young/July 2/10

F acebook
group gets three arrested/By: Matt Nash/July 01/10
Hizbullah's
troublesome Turkish embrace/By:
Michael Young/July
01/10
Hesitation has no place in reform/Daily Star/01
July/10

Long-awaited light/Al-Ahram
Weekly/July
01/10
Spy war continues/Al-Ahram
Weekly/ July
01/10
What to do about torture/By: Aline Sar/June
30/10
Arab League needs to be reinvented/Daily Star/June
30/10
Despite Turkey's creeping Islamic revolution, it
is no Iran/By Shlomo Ben-Ami/June
29/10
Firmly
behind Israel/By STEVE ROTHMAN/ June 29/10
Lebanon:
Nobody's There…Don't Call/By Hussein Shobokshi/June
29/10
Despite
Turkey's creeping Islamic revolution, it is no Iran/Shlomo Ben-Ami/June 29/10
Lebanese monk Estephan
Nehmeh beatified by Vatican/Daily Star/28/10
Shifting Sands/by
Ryan Mauro/June 28/10

New Opinion: Should we laugh or cry/Now Lebanon/28 June/10
Who was responsible for the violence in Toronto?/ By
Arthur Weinreb/June 28/10
Our Lady of Lebanon
Maronite Church celebrates one of its own entering into priesthood in Fkint
township, Michigan/Flint Journal/27/10
Who’s threatening Lebanon’s Christians?/By: Ana
Maria Luca/27 June/10

Criminal Intent and Militant Funding/Written
by Scott Stewart/Right Side News/ June 27/10
Lopez named deputy director of US
Counterterrorism Advisory Team. Dr. Phares is in this team/June 26/10
Flirting with danger /Hanin Ghaddar/June 26/10
When wise words are just wrong/Daily Star/26 June/10
Creative and manipulative, Petraeus expects to
win/By: David Ignatius/June 26/10
What if Geagea said Aoun’s words?By:
Hazem al-Amin/25/06/10
Suffocation
in the Lebanese Air/Hussam Itani/Al Hayat/25/06/10
We said nothing/Now Lebanon/June 24/10

Second Term Blues in Tehran/By: Amir Taheri/June
25/10
Jonathan Kay: Politicians should skip parades that
preach hate/National Post/June 25/10
More 'hate' on speakers' list of Toronto Islamic
Conference/By: Kathryn Blaze Carlson/National Post/June 24/10
ICC/Pakistani Christian Man Faces Death After False
Blasphemy Accusation/June
24/10 
Did you say McChrystal or MacArthur?/By
Michael Young/June 24/10 
Sarkozy and the Syrian Role/Randa
Takieddine/23 June/10
A Modern Regime for all
Lebanese/Mostafa
Zein/23 June/10
CANADA TO BAR ISLAMIC PREACHER/National Post/23 June/10
Bassil's
plan is only a ploy/Daily Star/June 23/10
Turkish
backing is just a desperate Palestinian fantasy/By Mkhaimar Abusada/June 23/10
Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan/The Canadian
Press/22 June/10
Hezbollah
acts local, thinks global/Tony Badran/June 22/10
Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, A voice in a dangerous wilderness/Now
Lebanon/21 June/10
Hail Hezbollah, or go down/By: Hanin Ghaddar/Now
Lebanon/June 19/10
Report: UNIFIL's Naval Unit Will Stop Any Violation of
1701/Naharnet/19 June/10
Interview with N. Gmayel/By:
Ben Evansky/June 18/10

If Nasrallah is killed/By:Nicholas
Lowry/June 18/10

March 14, the morning
after/By:Michael Young/June 18/10
The road to nowhere/Now
Lebanon/June 18/10
What does Syria want from Lebanon? Daily Star/June 18/10

Hezbollah museum: war for all the family/By
Theodore May/GlobalPost/June 17/10

More on Hezbollah in Latin America/BY DOUGLAS
FARAH/ June 17/10
The Chouf flag war/By:
Ana Maria Luca/June 16/10
Stop the slavery in
Lebanon/Daily Star/June
16/10

Umbilically yours, says Nasrallah to Iran/By: Tony
Badran/June 15/10
Road to Damascus
requires reform/Daily Star/June15/10

Bilateral priorities/Now Lebanon/June 15/10
Asharq Al-Awsat Talks to Former Lebanese President Amin
al-Jumayyil/14 June/10
Toni Nissi
Fighting
for Freedom in Lebanon/By:Joseph Puder/FrontPagemag.com/ June 14/10
Dr. Samir Geagea after President Hosni Mubarak/June
14/10
Albania, Hezbollah and the labyrinth of international
illegal arms trafficking/International Analyst Network/ June 14/10
The Shifting Sands in the Middle East/By: Ted
Belman/International Analyst Network/ June 14/10
Arab World: The covert murder capital?/By JONATHAN
SPYER/Jerusalem Post/June 12/10
Iran sanctions no threat to Hezbollah/Paige
Kollock/June 12/10
Toronto's Love of Diversity Is Tested by Islamists/by
Kathy ShaidleJune 12/10
Downtrodden by
politicians/Daily Star/12 June/10

Listen to the Vatican/Now
Lebanon/June 11/10
Turkey muddies the water/By: Bassel Oudat/Al-Ahram
Weekly/June 11/10
The Shifting Sands of the Middle East/By Ted Belman/American
Thinker/June 11/10
The myth of Iran's 'isolation'/Washington Post/June
11/10
Has the Taif Accord become an orphan?/By:
Khalil Zahr/Daily Star/June
11/10
The nagging 'what ifs' on
Iran/Daily Star/June 11/10

An International Blow to
Ahmadinejad/By: Hassan Haidar/June 10/10
Arabs
shouldn't weep for Helen Thomas/By:
Michael Young/ June
10/10
Erdogan and the Israel Card/By: Steven J. Rosen/June
10/10
Washington should keep
talking to Iran until the 11th hour/By:
Charles A. Kupchan/June
10/10
Obama Meets Abbas: And Shows He Understands Neither
Hamas Nor Israel, Neither the Middle East Nor Islamism/By: Barry Rubin/June
10/10
Zero problems or zero-sum?
Turkey’s foreign policy/By: Farrah Zughni/June
09/10
Erdogan makes turkeys of the Arabs/Tony Badran/June 8/10
Lebanon
is stifling your digital freedom/By Imad
Atalla/June 08/10
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