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Jerusalem Studio 282 – Lebanon in the center of Saudi-Iranian rivalry

Jerusalem Studio 282 – Lebanon in the center of Saudi-Iranian rivalry

  [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COzABJBWYXQ&feature=youtu.be[/embed] Lebanon has been pushed to the center of regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, since the Saudi-backed Lebanese politician Sa'ad al-Hariri – in an unexpected move - resigned his post as the country's Prime Minister, blaming Iran and its Lebanese-proxy Hezbollah of forcibly...

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December 17, 2017
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The Making of Lebanese Foreign Policy

The Making of Lebanese Foreign Policy

The Making of Lebanese Foreign Policy: Understanding the 2006 Hezbollah–Israeli War by Henrietta Wilkins(London: Routledge, 2013), 180 pages Reviewed by Nir Boms for the Israeli Journal of Foreign Affairs    In August 2013, seven years after the end of the Second Lebanon War, air raid sirens were again sounded in northern  Israel....

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September 19, 2013
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Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East

Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East

  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...

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January 15, 2012
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The Lebanese Test

The Lebanese Test

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...

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May 7, 2008
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Out of Lebanon

Out of Lebanon

March 01, 2005, 7:45 a.m. Ending Syrian control could change the Middle East - but it won't be easy. By Nir Boms and Aaron Mannes The car bomb that assassinated former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri rocked Beirut, but the political aftershocks could shake the entire region. The assassination has...

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May 7, 2008
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Civil War on the Basketball Court

Civil War on the Basketball Court

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | July 14, 2003 A few days ago, in the Fuad Shehab basketball stadium of suburban Beirut, the national basketball championship game was played between the two leading Lebanese teams: La Sagesse and Al Riyadi.  Unlike many other sports, basketball is of the few that has...

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May 7, 2008
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