Israel is building a wall on its northern border along a line demarcated by the United Nations in 2000, when Israel ended its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon. Israel is building the wall in order to prevent the deadly Hezbollah incursions that spurred the 2006 war, which claimed 1,20...
Why Stay, Why Leave? Israel in Southern Lebanon 1985-2000Eiran, Ehud
If it did overtly join the fight now, it could help lift it from the pit of sectarianism. But the risk of doing so is huge. Hezbollah has lost a great deal of support in Lebanon and the country can ill afford another war with Israel. Image:Israel-Lebanon border. P...
Below is Coates’s new the book of essays; click on it to go to the Amazon site. I read only the last (but most talked-about) essay, “The Gigantic Dream,” 117 pages long. If you know anything about the situation in Israel and Palestine, and the history thereof, you will spot im...
India is66.9% cheaper than Lebanon. What was Lebanon called before? During Ottoman rule the termSyriawas used to designate the approximate area including present-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine. Is Lebanon an ally of the United States?
One country may want to go to war to take revenge on something that another country or countries did to them. Germany‚ for example‚ wanted to take revenge on the rest of the European nations after they all unanimously agreed that the responsibility for the First World War should be ...
Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have reached boiling point at US universities, leading to the arrests of hundreds of protesters on campuses across the country. Police have been involved in clashes with pro-Palestinianprotesters who have set up encampments on dozens of campuses. ...
Around 100 U.S. troops will soon be on active duty in Israel to help defend the country against the potent missile threat from Iran and its regional allies.
As the holy month of Ramadan was set to begin on Monday, Ahmad Al-Banna, 29, had come to Gaza City to buy food that he intended to donate to people in the north. World & Nation Did Israel’s dramatic raid on a West Bank hospital violate the rules of war?
Bill Whitaker: We supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid, and yet Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course. The Biden-Harris administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire. He's resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon. He...