by David Hirst (New York: Nation Books, 2010), 489 pages Reviewed by Nir Boms Co-founder, CyberDissidents.org In choosing the title of his book Beware of Small States, David Hirst harks back to the words of Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian anarchist who in 1870 wrote to a friend about the European wars. Small states, Bakunin [...]
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Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
January 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Lebanon, Middle East
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The Lebanese Test
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Lebanon, Middle East
By Nir Boms and Leon Saltiel FrontPageMagazine.com | September 7, 2006 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan seemed particularly satisfied at the press conference in Brussels when the foreign ministers of the 25 European Union member states committed to contribute more that half of the 15,000 soldiers of the revamped UN force in Lebanon. Apart from [...]