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Hanan Awarekeh Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Thursday described talks held with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Vice President Farouk al-Shara?a and Foreign Minister Walid Moallem as important and positive. "During the Meetings, we saw Syrian support to the role assumed by the Arab League, particularly in Lebanon to reach a consensus President," Moussa told reporters. He added that work during the current stage concentrates on ending the Lebanese crisis and electing a president by the ... Read More
November 16, 2007 at 2:34pm"Annapolis meeting should be comprehensive in line with the Arab peace initiative?all issues related to the Arab Israeli conflict must be proposed at the meeting and serious neg...
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Hanan Awarekeh The United Nations joined international and Arab mediation efforts to break the political deadlock in Lebanon and urged through its visiting Secretary General Ban Ki-moon feuding Lebanese leaders to set aside their differences and proceed with the election of a president by a November 23 deadline. Ban continued on Friday his visits to the Lebanese figures in a bid to end the political crisis. On Friday morning, Ban held talks with Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir in Bkirki. After around 4... Read More
November 16, 2007 at 2:32pmAfter arriving in Beirut on Thursday, Ban headed first to Ein el-Tineh to meet Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, and then he met head of the unconstitutional government Fouad Sani...
November 16, 2007 at 2:31pmOn Thursday, Ban urged "A free and fair election of a new president appointed through constitutional rules, without foreign interference, is a milestone for the development of L...
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Qrswave's Blog Just because you don?t hear about it on CNN or FOX doesn?t mean it isn?t happening. Another great letter from an "anti-semitic" American to the Editor of Aspen Daily News . . . America?s mainstream news reported the civilian deaths in Gaza resulting from a clash between Fatah and Hamas, but neglected to report any of the following stories from the occupied territories that also happened in the last week. From International Middle East Media: Seven people were injured when the Isra... Read More
November 16, 2007 at 2:26pmThe Israeli group Peace Now released their semi-annual report on illegal Israeli settlements built on Palestinian land, finding that settlements are expanding at three times the...
November 16, 2007 at 2:25pmIsraeli military forces destroyed two wells near Jenin. Six military vehicles, backed by a bulldozer, destroyed the wells that residents depend on and filled them with dirt. Th...
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More than 600,000 people have now been evacuated from Bangladesh?s coastal areas as cyclone Sidr bears its full force on the country. Danger alerts along the coast are at their highest and the cyclonic storm has been classed as a category 4. Around 10 million people live on Bangladesh?s coast, but there are only enough storm shelters for a half a million people. Many people are sheltering in concrete buildings, such as schools or mosques. www.islamic-relief.com
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Khwaab ki tarah se hai yaad keh tum aaye thai Jis tarah daaman-e-mashriq meiN seher hoti hai Zarre zarre ko tajalli ki khabar hoti hai Aur jub noor ka sailab guzar jata hai Raat bhar ek andhere meiN basar hoti hai Kuch issi tarah se hai yaad keh tum aaye thai Jaise gulshan meiN dab-e-paoN bahar aati hai Patti patti ke liye le ke nikhar aati hai Aur phir waqt woh aata hai keh har mauj-e-saba Apne daaman meiN liye gard o ghubaar aati hai Kuch issi tarah se hai yaad keh tum aaye thai Jis tarah se... Read More
November 16, 2007 at 9:15amPehle bhi kaha tha aur ab bi kehta huN. Woh sub maqrooz ho gaye. Gawaah rehna. Adaab arz hai!!!
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Va va voom ! This time, It is the Eurostar :) While transport strikes gripped France, Britain?s rail chiefs were celebrating for once, the working debut of St Pancras International after a sweeping transformation from the fading Victorian relic into a swanky and a glizy London terminal. The first train was named Tread Lightly, after Eurostar?s environmentally-friendly ?green? campaign aimed at cutting its carbon dioxide emissions by 25% by 2012. High-speed rail travel between Britain and continental E... Read More
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An al-Qaeda cell tried to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah last summer, the Lebanesedaily As-Safir reported Thursday. According to the report, the Lebanese security services are currently conducting a vast investigation into al-Qaeda's activities in Lebanon. Several al-Qaeda cell members have been arrested, and have admitted ? among other things ? to firing Katyusha rockets at the Palestinian occupied territories on several occasions. The cells are also investigated in conn... Read More
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Mustapha's Blog Blog URL: Beirutspring.com/blog/ The new 24-hour news channel by Hariri?s Future TV seems like a pointless venture. I consider myself a news junkie. I?m obsessed with keeping track of the most insignificant of Lebanese developments. I follow trivial statements by the most obscure of Lebanese figures, and I have satellite TV. But even I can?t see how another all-news Future TV can benefit me. Don?t get me wrong, it?s always nice to have more news, but I just can?t see what need this ... Read More
November 15, 2007 at 2:57pmLet?s face it, there are tons of good Arabic satellite news channels out there, and the only reason we watch Lebanese news channels like LBC, Future and OTV is because we want t...
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The Lobby Paul Craig Roberts Experts in the West and ordinary people in Arab lands have understood for many years that the United States does not have an independent policy toward the Middle East. President Jimmy Carter, a man of good will, tried to use American influence to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the source of dangerous instability in the Middle East. However, Israel was able to block Carter's attempt, while blaming Yasser Arafat. Carter's plan would have given rise to a Palestinian state.... Read More
November 15, 2007 at 2:54pmAmerican patriots who glorify in their country's status as the "sole superpower" have much to learn about the subservience of their country's foreign policy to a tiny state of f...
November 15, 2007 at 2:54pmForty years ago the Lobby was sufficiently powerful to force President Lyndon Johnson to cover up the intentional Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that resulted in 34 Americans...
November 15, 2007 at 2:53pmIf military aggression fails to bring the Middle East under the hegemony of the U.S. and Israel, the dangers to energy flows and Israel's existence could result in the use of nu...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was due in Lebanon on Thursday to meet feuding political leaders and try to persuade them to end a bitter struggle threatening to derail a presidential election. The UN chief, set to arrive on Thursday afternoon, was to meet Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir. He was also scheduled to hold talks with leaders of the ruling bloc and the Lebanese national opposition to persuade them to agree on a consensus candidate for the presidency by a November 23 deadline. The two camps have been deadlo... Read More
November 15, 2007 at 2:48pmApart from Kouchner and the UN chief, Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema was expected in Beirut this week along with Arab League secretary general Amr Mussa to push the fe...
November 15, 2007 at 2:47pmIt was unclear Thursday whether he had submitted his list of names, which was awaited anxiously in political circles where a guessing game was being played out as to who would e...
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Gam kii baarish ne bhii tere naqsh ko dhoyaa nahii.n tuune mujh ko kho diyaa mai.n ne tujhe khoyaa nahii.n niind kaa halkaa gulaabii-saa Khumaar aa.Nkho.n me.n thaa yuu.N lagaa jaise vo shab ko der tak soyaa nahii.n har taraf diivaar-o-dar aur un me.n aa.Nkho.n kaa hujuum kah sake jo dil kii haalat vo lab-e-goyaa nahii.n jurm aadam ne kiyaa aur nasl-e-aadam ko sazaa kaaTataa huu.N zindagii bhar mai.n ne jo boyaa nahii.n jaanataa huu.N ek aise shaKhs ko mai.n bhii 'Munir' Gam se patthar ... Read More
November 15, 2007 at 8:52pmjaanataa huu.N ek aise shaKhs ko mai.n bhii 'Munir' I once read an interview of Munir Niazi (a poet) in Jang newspaper, if I remember correctly. He talked about his second wi...
November 15, 2007 at 2:41pmMunir Niazi ki kya baat thi. Such unique style he had. Kehte haiN Apne amaal ka hisab kisi ko kya dete? Sawal saaray ghalat thai, jawab kya detay
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Dil bhi bujha ho shaam ki parchaaiyaaN bhi hoN Marjaiye jo aise meiN tanhaayiaaN bhi hoN AankhoN ki surkh leher hai mauj-e-supardagi Yeh kya zaruri hai keh angRaaiyaaN bhi hoN Har husn-e-saadaa lau nah dil meiN utar saka Kuch tou mizaaj-e-yaar meiN gehraaiyaaN bhi hoN Duniya ke tazkiray tou tabeeyat he le bujhe Baat uss ki ho tou sukhan aaraaiyaN bhi hoN Pehle pahel ka ishq abhi yaad hai "Faraz" Dil khud yeh chaahta hai keh ruswaaiyaaN bhi hoN -Ahmed Faraz
November 15, 2007 at 9:16amTG Yeah yeah. You dont have to tell us that. We know it. "Pelhle pehel"....hmmmm sher yaad aa raha hai "Ai ajal fursat ko baRha aur baRha Yaad kar louN meri kis kis se s...
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Hanan Awarekeh Israeli field commander during last year's Lebanon war lashed out at the handling of the conflict in comments published on Monday, complaining of a "dangerous politicization" among top brass."During and after the second Lebanon war, the senior political echelon hid behind those fighting in the field and deserted them," said Brigadier General Gal Hirsch, who was northern divisional commander during the 34-day war. "Deplorable political norms have penetrated parts of an Israeli army forces affli... Read More
November 13, 2007 at 1:51pmHirsch resigned from the Israeli military last year after an in-house probe, subsequently criticized by a public commission of inquiry, faulted his leadership during the war. Th...
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Tayyar.org The following are excerpts of the interview of MP Michel Aoun to Al Manar TV on November 12, 2007: ? We are always accused of hindering agreements but those agreements are non existent in the first place. We would like to remind everybody that if there is no democratic and consensual solution, we are reaching an open ended situation. And we repeat that the election with the 50% + 1 and the prolongation of the Siniora government are options we will reject and resist. ? I have a very clear cons... Read More
November 13, 2007 at 1:49pm� The Lebanese themselves can save Lebanon when they accept each others and respect each others rights. - Photo: Al-Akhabr Newspaper
November 13, 2007 at 1:49pm? I am concerned because some people are irresponsible and have become drunk with international support. But this international support is shallow. ? I cannot guarantee that ...
November 13, 2007 at 1:48pm? The French policy should correct the mistakes they have done in the past with the Americans mainly imposing the election law in 2005 and I have expressed back then my opinion ...
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Alain Gresh How to Turn a Region Into a Graveyard When the US decided that its backyard would in future be a greater Middle East --from Pakistan to Morocco --it imagined that it could rearrange the region to suit itself. The results have been disastrous and will be long-lasting. The United States undersecretary of state, Nicholas Burns, said this year: "Ten years ago Europe was the epicentre of American foreign policy. This was how things stood from April 1917, when Woodrow Wilson sent one million Ameri... Read More
November 13, 2007 at 1:38pmThe cynicism of her remarks provoked caustic comments at the time, but she was, in a sense, right: since 9/11 we have witnessed the emergence of a new Middle East that bears no ...
November 13, 2007 at 1:38pmOne of his first decisions was to create an elected council to represent the city, with separate polls for Kurds, Arabs, Turkmens and Christians. No mention of Iraqis. By reduci...
November 13, 2007 at 1:38pmOn August 31, 2006, following the kidnapping in Gaza by an unknown group of two Fox News journalists, the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan published an article on the third generation o...
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The Lebanese Al-Akhbar daily said that the head of the Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblatt convened his party cadres and told them that the opposition could resort to protests in case a president was elected by a simple majority (half-plus-one MPs). Jumblatt, according to the daily, added that the opposition could as well close the international coastal highway between Beirut and the southern city of Sidon on the one hand and Mount Lebanon and Beirut on the other. He told them to open the roads with fi... Read More
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Mohamad Shmaysani The February 14 bloc rushed to spread false interpretations to Hezbollah's Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah's speech, accusing him of "torpedoing" initiatives to solve Lebanon's crisis. In his speech on Sunday, Sayyed Nasrallah urged President Emile Lahoud to adopt a "national rescue initiative" to prevent political void, if a new president was not elected. The authority bloc accused Hezbollah's chief of having "Iranian motives" behind his speech, "declaring war", "instigating a cou... Read More
November 13, 2007 at 1:28pmWell informed sources attributed Sfeir's position to a desire by Bkirki not to bare the consequences of future actions which a president it names could undertake during his term...
November 13, 2007 at 1:28pmKouchner in Lebanon for Breakthrough French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner is due in Lebanon in the coming hours for a one-day visit which comes after the French, according ...
November 13, 2007 at 1:27pmLahoud: I Will Do Whatever Necessary at this Stage In the meantime, President Emile Lahoud warned against the perils of violating the constitution and shaking stability in the ...
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The head of the Marada Party, former minister Suleiman Franjieh and former President Amine Gemayel held a meeting late on Monday in eastern Beirut. Both leaders issued a joint statement stressing the stature of presidency is the most prominent constitutional position for the Christians, through which they can contribute efficiently in the country. Their statement added that "what's left of the president's authorities after the Taef Accord, can only be practiced by a popular president who's capable and committed ... Read More
November 13, 2007 at 1:25pmMeanwhile, Gemayel's office denied some media reports that the meeting was to formulate a caretaker government headed by the former president. The office dismissed those reports...
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US president George W. Bush telephoned the head of Lebanon's unconstitutional government Fouad Saniora to give, again, his backing for the presidential vote. Dana Perino, the White House spokeswoman said that Bush briefed Saniora about his meetings this week with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy. She added that Saniora reiterated his commitment to ensuring the February 14 should be able to elect a president in time and according to the constitution free from external interfer... Read More
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Israeli daily Maarif revealed that Israel received information saying that the UNIFIL could leave South Lebanon within six months because of political instability in Lebanon. The paper said that foreign diplomats had recently told the Israeli foreign ministry that if the internal situation in Lebanon didn't settle down soon, then the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will order the 11,000 strong UNIFIL force to withdraw. Maarif newspaper related Israeli security concerns and quoted an Israeli security source as ... Read More
November 13, 2007 at 1:22pmA senior Israeli officer in the northern leadership assailed the UNIFIL saying that " since the death of six Spanish soldiers in a terror attack in June, UNIFIL has been investi...
