Hezbollah

Saad Hariri Obama wins an election in the Middle East

Lebanon's voters gave the White House the victory it wanted -- with a lot of help from Hezbollah.
By Juan Cole Jun 10, 2009

  • Why Israelis support the Gaza offensive

    Israel's post-traumatic war is not just about stopping Hamas rockets, but about repairing reputations -- and erasing the stain of failure.
    By Aluf Benn January 5, 2009

  • McCain on Iran: Bush all over again

    An alarmist John McCain is using Iran as a political weapon against Barack Obama -- even as he misjudges our Middle East adversary.
    By Hooman Majd June 19, 2008

  • Arming our own enemies in Iraq

    Bush officials claim that Iran has supplied grenade launchers to Iraqi militants -- but the real source of the weapons is U.S. negligence.
    By Gareth Porter June 6, 2008

  • We are all appeasers now

    The GOP and establishment media are attacking Barack Obama for being willing to talk to "terrorists" -- but many parties, including Israel, are doing just that.
    By Gary Kamiya June 3, 2008

  • John McCain's Arab-American problem

    Arab-Americans are concentrated in swing states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. And the early signs are not good for McCain.
    By Juan Cole May 28, 2008

  • Israel's rising right wing

    Together, an enigmatic billionaire and a resurgent Bibi Netanyahu could put Israel on the war path. Dick Cheney, AIPAC and Iran are all watching closely.
    By Gregory Levey October 9, 2007

  • Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1

    Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.
    By Juan Cole September 24, 2007

  • Bush's tangled arms deal

    By selling weapons to "moderate" states, Bush would again be playing puppet master and jerking around the Middle East with disastrous consequences.
    By Gary Kamiya August 14, 2007

  • "A persistent and evolving terrorist threat"

    A top-level intelligence report made public Tuesday warns of more terrorist attacks inside the United States.
    July 18, 2007

  • Israel's Olmert rises from the rubble

    Despite the Gaza disaster and poll numbers that make George Bush look beloved by comparison, the shrewd prime minister has renewed his grip on power.
    By Gregory Levey July 3, 2007

  • Spinning the disaster in Gaza

    Bush and Olmert scramble to prop up Abbas, but the Hamas takeover boosts Iran and leaves hopes for a Palestinian state in tatters.
    By Aluf Benn June 20, 2007

  • How Bush's war bolstered Syria

    The chaos in Iraq has emboldened Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime and given Syria new power to meddle in the Middle East.
    By Mohamad Bazzi May 31, 2007

  • Israel's wounds of war

    A scathing criticism of Ehud Olmert's failed war on Hezbollah last summer points to much deeper problems for the country.
    By Aluf Benn May 2, 2007

  • To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi

    Why neocons are so apoplectic about the speaker's visit to Syria.
    By Joe Conason April 6, 2007

  • Israel's surge of despair

    Top Israeli officials admit last summer's war against Hezbollah was a failure -- and denounce President Bush's actions in the Middle East.
    By Gregory Levey February 15, 2007

  • To Iran with love

    From the botched Iraq war to threatening Iran with "regime change," neoconservative policies have been a boon for Tehran.
    By Joe Conason August 25, 2006

  • "Nasrallah has come"

    The Hezbollah leader has emerged from the ruins of Lebanon as a folk hero -- but is his facade of unity beginning to crack?
    By Lucy Fielder August 24, 2006

  • Israel's debacle, courtesy of Bush

    With U.S. support, Israeli unilateralism was unfurled. The nation's security has never been so endangered, or its moral authority so tarnished.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 17, 2006

  • We hear that they've got a strategy for victory in Iraq, too

    Rice on Hezbollah: Hope for the best, and maybe somebody will call them names.
    By Tim Grieve August 16, 2006

  • The coming earthquake

    Having failed on the battlefield, Israelis question their leadership and their national direction.
    By Aluf Benn August 14, 2006

  • Bombs over Beirut

    The killing of civilians in Lebanon's capital has citizens once opposed to Hezbollah outraged by what they see as Israel's indiscriminate bombing.
    By Mitchell Prothero August 9, 2006

  • The neocons' next war

    By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 3, 2006

  • Other fallout from the Israel-Hezbollah war

    An environmental disaster, a wave of cyberterrorism and a dangerous escalation of the propaganda wars.
    By Mark Follman August 2, 2006

  • The fallout from Qana

    Human Rights Watch denounces Israel for war crimes, while a halt to airstrikes lasted only a few hours.
    By Julie Flint July 31, 2006
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