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Opinion Why the Lebanese Border Is Heating Up. Hint: It’s Not About Israel
Progressive Zionists rightly insist on the right to declare one’s love for Israel and still point out when Israel is in the wrong and the other side has a legitimate case. The trouble is that one neglects to take note from time to time (to time to time to time, actually) when Israel is in…
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The Schmooze World’s Largest Falafel, But Who Cares?
Israel and Lebanon have waged a several year battle over who can produce the largest vat of hummus. The last record was set by Lebanon on May 12, with a 23,046 pound bowl of the chickpea dip. And now Israel is off to set the Guinness World Record for the largest falafel ball. An Israeli…
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The Schmooze An Arabic Bestseller About Beirut’s Jews
A new book, documenting Lebanon’s largely vanished Jewish community is a bestseller — in Arabic. In fact, “Wad Abu Jamil,” a book by BBC journalist Nada Abdelsamad named after the formerly Jewish neighborhood in Beirut, is available only in Arabic, though translations into English and French are forthcoming. According to Alexandra Sandels of the LA…
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Breaking News Miep Gies, Hid Anne Frank, Dead at 100
Miep Gies, the woman who recovered Anne Frank’s diary, has died at 100. Gies, who died Monday in the Netherlands, was the last surviving member of the small group that hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis. After the arrest of the Frank family by the Gestapo in 1944, Gies returned to the…
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Life Lebanon to Israel: Hands Off Our Falafel Balls
From DPA via Ha’aretz’s Web site: The president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association Fadi Abboud, said he is preparing to file an international lawsuit against Israel for allegedly “taking the identity of some Lebanese foods” and thus violating a food copyright. “In a way the Jewish state is trying to claim ownership of traditional Lebanese…
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Life Lebanese Druze Fight Hezbollah With Sarcasm
Hezbollah maintains that it needs to hold on to its weapons to defend Lebanon from Israel. Never mind that Israel pulled out of Southern Lebanon eight years go. Now, of course, the Shiite militia is turning its guns against its fellow Lebanese. After heavy fighting earlier this week in Druze-dominated mountain areas outside of Beirut,…
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Life The Army in Hezbollah’s Pocket?
Ha’aretz’s Yoav Stern writes: Hezbollah’s rapid and savvy raids of recent days brought to light the true balance of power in Lebanon, and, at the same time, the close connection between the Lebanon Army and Hezbollah. Witness accounts of Hezbollah’s actions in Lebanon in the course of the incidents demonstrate not only that the Lebanon…
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Life Lebanon’s ‘Cell Phone Civil War’?
Things are getting ugly in Lebanon. The months-long standoff between Lebanon’s pro-Western government and Hezbollah and its allies has escalated into violence. The trigger? Cell phones. Time magazine reports: The country has been politically paralyzed for 16 months, unable to elect a new president because of a deadlock between government and opposition forces in which…
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