Tag: Lebanon and Hezbollah
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Roots of Evil
Israel has struck Gaza again. This time more than 365 peoples including innocent men, women, and children have been killed. Around 600 people have been injured, a majority of them being in serious condition. Six months old ceasefire between Hamas and Israel , that ended…
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US and Iran Showdown Disastrous for the World
Encircling Iran by maintaining its military presence in five of the seven countries sharing borders with Iran, the US is already working overtime to neutralize Iran’s nuclear programme with threats or coaxing. Whereas, Israel, all the time, is cajoling US for some tangible action beyond…
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US-Iran Relations Require Re-thinking
Popular perception in the lands of Islam regarding the US stance on Iran’s nuclear programme should be very unpalatable to American policy makers who, in their own right, believe they are trying to make the world safer to live. A dominant majority perceives that America’s…
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What Have We Made of Ourselves?
Whatever may have caused it; whatever may have provided the inspiration; whatever may have given the impetus to the present killing spree in the lands of Islam, one thing is certain: the onus of responsibility lies on Muslim leadership especially the religious leadership.The religion whose…
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Conflicting Vision of Lebanon
Unless the vision is diabolically twisted not to register any change in the expanse of panorama in the front or it is jangled by some devilish thoughts convincing someone that his/her actions are of some real worth to humanity, there cannot be any other reason…
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Lebanon’s Darkening Slide
Grappling with presidential vacuum, compounded by national disorientation that is further aggravated by mutual distrust, incrimination and loss of common sense as well as a national sense of urgency, Lebanon is sliding fast into an abyss of unfathomable depth taking with it all good tidings…
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Governments in Lebanon Cannot Survive Without Hezbollah
Last Wednesday on 12th January, 2011 Lebanese govern fell to forebodings of impending crises while its prime minister, Mr. Saad Hariri, was visiting the White House. Governments in Lebanon cannot survive without Hezbollah’s support. No stronger signals could be sent to the US showing the…
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Bush’s Proxy War
The darker side of present Lebanon crisis is that Mr. George W. Bush wants to turn it into an opportunity, if he had not carved the opportunity itself, for the so called ‘New Middle East’ constructed on the lines of his erstwhile ‘New World Order.’…
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Hezbollah: A Prospect for Peace
A lie has many faces and it always requires a great deal of uncommon commonsense called wisdom to uncover the truth behind the façade of propaganda. The same is true with the present day imbroglio in the Middle East. Since 1982 we are hearing from…
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US Contradictions in Central Asia
One lie leads to thousands of other, fits well on the US, which promotes its own avowed national interests in the name of democracy, humanity, freedom of speech and enlightenment. At times, the policy-makers in Washington have to go for difficult choices when national interests…