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English 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 0
8/10

Potential Lebanese- Israeli Conflict over Natural Gas Revisited/By Ghassan Karam/yalibnan/July 0
8/10

Analysis: The IDF intel/By YAAKOV KATZ/July 0
8/10

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

Facebook 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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