Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country which shares a southern border with Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country which shares a southern border with Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country which shares a southern border with Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country which shares a southern border with Israel.
Things are getting ugly in Lebanon. The months-long standoff between Lebanon’s pro-Western government and Hezbollah and its allies has escalated into violence. The trigger? Cell phones. Time magazine reports: The country has been politically paralyzed for 16 months, unable to elect a new president because of a deadlock between government and opposition forces in which…
WASHINGTON — Reflecting growing discontent in Washington with Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in heavily populated areas of Lebanon, two leading Democratic senators this week introduced legislation that would require recipients of such munitions not to use them in or near civilian centers. Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Patrick Leahy of Vermont this…
Sooner or later the current war in Lebanon will come to an end. Israel will survive, lick its wounds, recharge its diminished energies and return, with revitalized enthusiasm, to its television shows and vacations. Hezbollah probably will have suffered some damage, and Israel perhaps will have been able to buy itself a fake, temporary peace,…
WASHINGTON — Staunchly pro-Israel conservatives with close ties to the Bush administration say that Jerusalem is hindering America’s global war on terror by failing to wage an all-out war to eliminate Hezbollah. In interviews with the Forward and in recently published opinion articles, conservatives slammed Israel’s reluctance to launch a comprehensive ground-war against the Lebanese…
After the disaster came a revamped, harder-fisted approach to fighting. Those words describe what happened at the start of this week, when a Hezbollah missile fell among army reservists at Kibbutz Kfar Giladi near Israel’s northern tip, killing 12 men. But the same words could equally describe the way the war began almost four weeks…
A great deal has been lost in this summer of fear and death, much of it irretrievably. Hundreds of innocent Israelis and Lebanese have lost their lives; thousands more have lost limbs, loved ones, homes, a livelihood. Millions of others around the world have lost something very nearly as precious: hope. As Oz Almog, the…
Three weeks into Israel’s latest Lebanon War, Israelis and their friends and allies around the world remain united in the certainty that this is a just war. They know that Israel had a right to respond as it did to Hezbollah’s provocations, and they believe that Israel’s future safety requires a clear victory over the…
The awful bloodshed and intense emotions of war are not conducive to careful moral reasoning. With Hezbollah rockets raining down on northern Israel, an honest reckoning of the conduct of Israeli forces in Lebanon is difficult. Facile arguments and serious misconceptions, like those listed below, are too easily accepted. But given the stakes, it is…
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