Lebanon
Sinking Fast
Why Hezbollah Had a Really Bad Week
Tim Pawlenty has staked out the maximal hawkish position within the Republican primary field. At the same time, he and every Republican candidate must maintain maximal Ronald Reagan fealty. Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Pawlenty and watches the brain circuits fry: READ MORE >>
Living Dead
Conversations With Libyan Expats
Stephen Solarz (1940–2010)
Two More on Edward Said
This is with regard to my two previous posts on "orientalism" and the "modern" Arabs. READ MORE >>
Everybody, it Seems, Worries About There Being no Moratorium on Settlements. I Don't. I Worry that Lebanon is About to Collapse.
Everybody, quite literally everybody is irked by Bibi Netanyahu's refusal to give the peace processors another two months of a ban on construction in the West Bank. As if such a prohibition would produce more than the last ten months when Israel unilaterally precluded construction in the territories and the Palestinians responded with squat. READ MORE >>