More in ‘Hassan Nasrallah’

• Abraham Foxman calls for civility in public discourse. [HuffPo]
• Hezbollah head advocates a nuclear reactor in Lebanon. Sure, why not? [Now Lebanon]
• Ron Kampeas takes Paul Krugman to task for demagoguing the ADL/Park51 issue. [Capital J]
• Joseph O’Neil has a great essay on novelist Muriel Spark, who—who knew?—had a Jewish father. [The Atlantic]
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Even to the untrained eye, there was something disturbing about the images flowing in from the Israeli-Lebanese border clash on Tuesday, which left one senior Israeli officer and three Lebanese dead. The pictures speak for themselves: Freshly uniformed Lebanese soldiers, armed with U.S.-made M-16s and backed by U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carriers, can be clearly ...

In Washington the assumption is that it’s only a matter of time before Israel and Hezbollah will be at war again. But what’s worse is that, according to policymakers and analysts I’ve spoken to, the United States is sharply opposed to Israel finishing the work it failed to get done in its two previous Lebanon ...

In the annals of “big policy ideas,” perhaps none has had as much staying power in the face of a dismal track record than the seemingly perpetual conviction that integrating Syria into the pro-American order in the Middle East is a real, achievable possibility. The ultimate authority invoked in support of the idea that Syria ...

It was the third night of the Second Lebanon War, in July 2006, and Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, was wrapping up his first—and probably most important—of what would be more than 10 wartime speeches.
Two days before, on the afternoon of July 12, Nasrallah had only seen fit to hold a brief press ...

Postmodernists long ago disabused us of the idea that texts have stable, fixed meanings. French literary critics like Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes introduced a vision of the text as a tricky, shape-shifting improvisation; their American disciples like Stanley Fish proposed that these texts only acquire meaning through the efforts of interpretive communities. The relevance ...

My grandmother loves Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah. She is confident that he will lead the Shia in Lebanon to a better life, with dignity and pride. She believes every word he says and even cries during his speeches. Undoubtedly, he is her only hope. Decades of war and a lifetime absorbing collective memories ...

• Following a meeting yesterday between Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and U.S. Special Envoy George Mitchell, a deal in which West Bank settlement construction would be frozen except for several advanced projects is reportedly close. [Haaretz]
• Meanwhile, Barak and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, after a meeting this morning, expressed disagreement over ...