From Wavell Palestinian camp, Baalbec, Lebanon The statistics are just beginning to be analyzed—by UN agencies and a myriad of NGO’s whose mandates include salvaging young lives from the nearly incalculable ravages of the five-week…
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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.—Psalms 137:1 Heads of the IDF Southern and Northern Commands reached the headlines on August 11, 2014. The first acknowledged…
For a video presentation, please click here: Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdlMklTbjNQ Background Information: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s recent comments regarding the current military power of his movement, in light of regular media reports…
that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their’s—Habakkuk 1:6 Something is truly wrong with Israeli baptizing capabilities. Hercules planes are named…
Western media has accused the Syrian government of launching a chemical attack in an area east of Damascus that killed hundreds of civilians. It is the same accusations they had on Saddam Hussein who allegedly ordered a chemical attack in the town of Halabja in Southern Kurdistan, a Kurdish territory killing more than 3000 people and more than 7000 injured. U.S President George H.W. Bush used the incident to justify an invasion when he said “The dictator who is assembling the world’s most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages, leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind or disfigured.” Many doubts surfaced including a former Central Intelligence Agency senior political analyst and professor at the Army War College, Stephen C. Pelletiere who wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times in 2003 called ‘A War Crime or an Act of War?, he said:
There has been an ongoing information war being fought for hearts and minds inside and outside of the Middle East. The war has mostly been tied to Syria. As the US and its allies begin…
Sayyeda Zeinab Shrine Damascus. It is well known in this region that powerful foreign and domestic forces in nearly every country, but particularly Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, are increasingly acting, for purely political purposes, to ignite a…
It is late afternoon and I am standing on top of an active, although temporarily abandoned, Israeli bunker. Through my Nikon lens I can clearly see a huge Syrian flag waving majestically in the wind….
Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.—John le Carré, The Looking Glass War A thick fog covered the affair from its beginning. Considering its circumstances, this…
What a difference a week can make in the Middle East. On October 19, when a car bomb tore through the upscale Christian neighborhood of Achrafiyeh in Beirut killing a major security official, Lebanon shuddered…