Mideast Trends (update): Dec. 8, 2009
Posts Tagged as ‘Hezbollah’
November 4, 2009
The Floating Cookie Jar
Paperwork aboard the German-owned, Antiguan-flagged vessel shows the origin of some of its arms containers to be the Iranian port of Bandar-Abbas, contradicting the Syrian Foreign Minister’s assertion that the ship was traveling from Syria to Iran…
November 3, 2009
Hamas Test-Fires New Missile
New weapon puts Tel Aviv within range of Hamas attacks. Debkafile is reporting that the new addition is a modified Iranian version of the Chinese Silkworm missile. Meanwhile, in Lebanon, Iranian proxy Hezbollah has already claimed that it can hit Tel Aviv from north of the Litani River…
October 30, 2009
Middle East: Religion vs. Extremism
Score two victories for religious common sense over irrational hatred.
1) Patriarch of Lebanon’s Maronite Church lashes out at Hizbullah
2) ‘Waqf quietly pleased at Salah’s arrest’
June 6, 2009
Is one Jewish state one too many?
[...] A CONFERENCE is not held in a vacuum. Against a backdrop of the ascendency of Iran calling to destroy Israel, Hamas consolidating its hold over the Gaza Strip and continuing to rain rockets against southern Israeli cities and a global increase in anti-Semitism, is it possible that York University doesn’t understand that a conference calling on Israel to cease being a Jewish Zionist state plays into the hands of those seeking to annihilate it completely? [...]
June 1, 2009
Azerbaijan Tries Embassy Attack Plotters
Azerbaijani Official: Plotters had Hezbollah and Al Qaeda ties…
May 23, 2009
Bye, Bye Nasrallah
Der Spiegel: UN Probe Finds Strong Evidence of Hezbollah Link to Assassination of Former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri – Nasrallah Confidant Hajj Salim Implicated…
