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michaeltotten.com - 2/20/2009
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The Lebanese-Israeli border has been calmer during the last two and a half years than it has been in decades. Hezbollah replenished its arsenal of rockets after the 2006 war, but has chosen to lay low in the meantime. Not one Israeli soldier has been kidnapped since the war's end, and not a ...
forbes.com - 2/22/2009
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forbes.com —
The Obama administration's decision to join the planning
of the U.N.'s Durban II "anti-racism" conference has just
taken a new twist: cover-up. On Friday, State Department officials and a member of the American Durban II delegation claimed the United ...
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The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/17/2009
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In a major foreign-policy decision taken over the
weekend, President Obama has decided to legitimize the United
Nations's "anti-racism" forum known as Durban II. State Department officials announced in a press release buried on Saturday, that starting ...
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Obama Naïveté at the U.N.
forbes.com - 2/18/2009
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BEIRUT--Valentine's Day was a big day in the
Middle East, as Lebanon mourned the fourth anniversary of
the assassination by car bomb of its former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. On a junket of journalists from the West, I flew into Beirut to see the ...
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Weekend In Lebanon: A Dispatch From Beirut
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Michael Totten: A Third Lebanon War?
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... though, Nasrallah still seems to think it’s okay to attack Israel outside Israel. Israel vows to retaliate inside Lebanon if Hezbollah inflicts any serious damage. “The Lebanese government bears overall responsibility, and any attempt to attack Israel will be met with a response,” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. Even a relatively restrained response inside Lebanon by Israelis could escalate into a big war, as it did last time. Read the rest in Commentary Magazine. read ...
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