On Monday, Israeli armored divisions and combat troops gathered on Israel's northern border while Israeli artillery units pounded targets across southern Lebanon. Early reports filed on Twitter indicate that Israeli reconnaissance units have already crossed the border into Lebanon clearing the way for an upcoming ground offensive. According to Reuters, the Lebanese Army has already... Read More

Hezbollah has had its worst week in its 4 decades-long history. Two days of cyber-attacks (pagers and walkie-talkies) killed at least 37 people while sending thousands more to the hospital. The explosions were followed by a massive bombing campaign of southern Lebanon which included a direct hit on a building in South Beirut where the... Read More

In August 2010, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah presented "intercepted Israeli reconnaissance footage" and "the recorded confessions of Israeli spies" at news conference in Beirut to support his claim that Israel was responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. The aerial footage, taken by Israeli unmanned drones, showed the same route... Read More

When Israeli troops and armored units swept into Lebanon on July 12, 2006, not one soldier from the Lebanese Army was deployed to the South to defend the country. The army stayed safely tucked away in the North while Hezbollah militiamen engaged the IDF in ferocious combat for more than a month. 1,200 civilians were... Read More

It's hard to know what Bush hopes to accomplish by backing the bloody siege of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, but one thing is certain; things are never as they seem. In an interview on Democracy Now last week, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh stated that, Fatah al-Islam---the group of Sunni extremists inside the camp--were getting... Read More

Israel is in a state of post-war trauma. Its 34 day pounding of Lebanon has achieved none of the stated goals and has left the public furious at the incompetence of the Olmert government. 118 soldiers were killed in the conflict and Israel's celebrated "power of deterrence" was smashed to smithereens. Nothing was gained. In... Read More

Israel's sudden push to the Litani River is a blatant act of political desperation intended to conceal the humiliating defeat the IDF has suffered at the hands of Hezbollah. It comes in the wake of a UN ceasefire agreement worked out by friends of Israel in the Bush administration who were looking for a diplomatic... Read More

On the 17th day of a massive military offensive, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is no closer to achieving his objectives than he was on Day 1. Olmert originally promised that he would "disarm Hezbollah" and create a buffer-zone from Israel's northern border to the Litani River. He has accomplished neither. His violent reaction to the... Read More