Lebanese leaders have been eyeing the present conflict in the Gaza Strip with apprehension for fear it would spread to Lebanon.
BEIRUT -- Many analogies are being made between the ongoing Israeli attack against Hamas in Gaza and the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Here are the most important ones, in my view.
EDITORIAL
Since the start of the recent clashes on Christmas Eve between Hamas and the Israeli military, spokespeople for the Israeli military have gone on record to stress that this war is not against the Palestinian people, but against what the Israelis call, "terrorists."
OPINION
As she prepares for her role as U.S. secretary of state, Senator Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Obama foreign policy team should consider how a new American-Iranian relationship might advance U.S. interests in Iraq and Afghanistan, and conceivably even the Arab-Israeli peace process.
It takes a bold writer to tackle a hackneyed theme and repackage it in fresh wrappings so that the most jaded reader finds the story imaginative. For the most part, Kira Salak is that writer, giving us a contemporary version of Joseph Conrad's classic "Heart of Darkness" (1903); engaging readers a hundred years after Conrad provoked his readers. Ironically, if Conrad's late Victorian readers didn't understand the attack on their own racist views, Salak's shouldn't miss the rebuke on their own narrow-minded ethnocentrism, assuming they read "The White Mary" to its bitter end.
