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'Lebanon should consider itself lucky to be blessed with a neighbor like Israel'
Astoundingly, this is what Kuwaiti columnist Fouad al-Hashem wrote in the Kuwaiti daily al-Watan. Fouad al-Hashem, a columnist for the Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan, wrote that Lebanon should consider itself lucky to be blessed with a neighbor such as Israel, rather than Iraq, for example. "Samir Kuntar lived in Israeli prisons for 29 years," al-Hashem wrote. "No one cut off his ears, tore out his
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Yourish.com — ... Deja Vu re-published the thoughts of A Syrian Dreams of a day in Haifa No doubt, it would be tempting to land in Haifa. Perhaps I would run into one of the 1948 Arabs [i.e. Israeli Arabs] - not in order to ask him whether he would prefer to live in the West Bank or Gaza rather than in the state of the artificial ‘entity,’ but to ask him whether he would prefer living in Mecca or Qom to living in Haifa… Israel Matzav quotes from a Kuwaiti writer: Hizbullah and Kuntar’s ...

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