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Winning And Losing

August 6, 2007 · Mustapha Hamoui

-Read Faysal’s good analysis on the meaning of Aoun’s victory and why it could also be considered a loss.

-For French readers, find a similar number-crunching analysis by Ziad Makhoul (the article is from L’orient le Jour, but the LF link is permanently free)

-Robert Fisk also weighs in on the Lebanese by-elections:

Camille Khoury, may not win, but he will reformulate the politics of
Lebanon where “pro-Syrian” may become once more a respectable political
label.