LimbicNutrition Weblog

“The whole issue of the Shebaa Farms was a pretext to continue fighting Israel after it departed in 2000,” said Gary C Gambill, editor of Mideast Monitor. “The words ‘Shebaa Farms’ simply didn’t enter the Lebanese political vernacular until a few months

Consensus periods of politics in American history have been few and far between. But our future politics is more likely to forge consensus than that of the past, because we are on the cusp of a golden age of social science empiricism that will help bring

Politically, however, Hezbollah had to declare victory for a simple reason: It had to pretend that the death and desolation it had provoked had been worth it. A claim of victory was Hezbollah’s shield against criticism of a strategy that had led Lebanon i

Is Reuters hoaxing us again? If the purported attack on a Reuters press van was a fraud–if, in fact, the Israelis fired on a terrorist vehicle, as they believed, and the Reuters van was dragged off a junk lot for propaganda purposes–then Reuters has cro

Rave review of Melanie Philips’ new book