The worst, most awful show on Palestinian TV

The worst and most excruciatingly awful show on Palestinian TV is a wierd, arrogant, and embarassing nightly half-hour which has now become a part of the Ramadan post-Iftar must-watch family programming that airs every evening after the day’s fast is broken, the table has been cleared, and the formerly drooping audience its not quite yet [...]

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New IDF information offensive against Hizballah

An Associated Press report this morning indicates that the Israeli Defense Forces have launched a new information offensive against Hizballah.
The IDF has taken journalists to the the northern “border” [though there is no agreed border as yet] between Israel and Lebanon, and shown what the IDF claims is evidence that “Hezbollah is moving fighters and [...]

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Meir Javendanfar worries about war, now

After noting that he usually tries “not to get worked up about reports of imminent war in the Middle East”, Iranian-born Israeli analyst Meir Javendanvar has just written, on the Real Clear World website, that “this time I really can’t shake the feeling that something ominous is about to happen, involving Hezbollah.  It will either [...]

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On withholding U.S. aid to the Lebanese Army, now

There is a silly and irritating — and also dangerous — debate going on about cutting off American military aid to the Lebanese Army in the wake of its firefight with IDF forces who insisted on going ahead with “routine maintenance” along the Blue Line separating the two country’s armies, despite advice and strong requests [...]

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More on the recent Israeli-Lebanese firefight

lsraeli political and security analyst Shlomo Brom, [Brig-Gen {Res}], of the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, INSS, has just written that: “Underlying this incident is the dispute between Israel and Lebanon over the demarcation of the Blue Line separating Lebanon and Israel, as well as Lebanon’s political reality. In its unilateral withdrawal from [...]

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“It’s ours!” – More Israeli imprecision about status of “border” from Haaretz

Here is another example of Israeli extreme imprecision about the nature of the demarcation between its territory and Lebanese, in a Haaretz editorial whose sub-headline says: “The government and IDF must understand that not every time is right for demonstrating Israeli sovereignty right up to the last millimeter, certainly not when tension is rising on [...]

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Angry Arab: there will [probably] not be a new Israeli-Lebanon war [now]

Via Angry Arab: “The uncovering of wide network of Israeli spies in Lebanon is the biggest espionage story in the history of the Middle East conflict”…
Angry Arab [As'ad AbuKhalil] also wrote in the same post that “People are really concerned about the prospects of an Arab-Israeli war. A friend called me from South Lebanon yesterday [...]

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What does UNIFIL have to say today? The Blue Line is “sensitive”, but “quiet prevails at this time”

This is what the UN likes best – holding meetings… [This one was, unsurprisingly, "constructive"]. That, and calling on both sides to exercise “maximum restraint” [safely, after the most senior officials in the U.S. administration already used the exact same language]…
Here is a statement issued today by the UNIFIL spokesperson in Naqoura, Lebanon:
“UNIFIL Force [...]

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UN Blue Line in Lebanon – not a border, but a “line of withdrawal”

Here is a statement from the UNIFIL spokesperson in Lebanon today:
“Following the exchange of fire between the Lebanese army and the Israeli army across the Blue Line in El Adeisse yesterday, the UNIFIL investigators were on the ground and commenced investigations. The investigations are still ongoing and the findings will be intimated on conclusion of [...]

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War? Again?

All through the day, SMS announcements have been summarizing the latest developments:  the Israeli Defense Forces have clashed with the Lebanese Army.
This may be the first clash between these two military forces, ever.
Three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist have been killed.  One IDF officer has also been killed, and another is in serious but [...]

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