Mischevious Question

Now that Hezbollah has proven that it can block government decisions it doesn’t like, should it still insist on having a blocking third share of the government?

Map Of Conflict In Tripoli

For those who are interested in where the fighting is taking place in Tripoli:

Comic Relief

Mastering the art of coping with stress, the Lebanese already have a set of jokes about the situation (Via +961)
خبر عاجل: أعلن الله (سبحانه وتعالى) انسحابه من الحزب
خبر عاجل: يستنكر حزب الله الاعتداء على تلفزيون المستقبل و يتهم السلطة
ادارة سوكلين تقوم بحملة نظافة تحت شعار ” النظافة من الايمان” و تشكر ملشيات المقاومة الاسلامية على [...]

McCain On Hezbollah: More Diplomacy

To put Senator. Obama’s statement in perspective, let’s take a look at the Republican nominee’s point of vue. At the time of posting this, there was still no official press release on the situation.
Calling it a “very serious situation,” presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain said here Friday that the seizure of parts of west [...]

Ethiopia Bans Its Citizens From Working In “Abusive” Lebanon

Nothing can beat this story for it’s Im-ashamed-of-being-Lebanese effect.

We’d rather stay here than work in Beirut… (photo source)
Sure they’re starving and living in miserable conditions, but that doesn’t mean that they have to put up with the ultimate abusive environment: The Lebanese household.
On the occasion of Labor Day, Ethiopia has officially banned its citizens from [...]

Does Hezbollah Have an Advertising Advantage?

Jonathan Schanzer writes an article in the Weekly Standard about Hezbollah’s advertising savvy, but he doesn’t tell the entire story.
Advertising Vs Advertising
In his article “Selling Terror“, subtitled “Madison Avenue meets the Bekaa Valley”, Mr. Schanzer writes a compendium of the media companies that are helping Hezbollah “sell terror”. He then concludes that the US needs [...]

Those Imperious Americans

Will this picture tell a thousand words?

This picture is being circulated in blogs with an anti-American leaning. It shows U.S. Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Michele J.Sison standing side-by-side with the ISF’s chief Ashraf Rifi.
Of course, the blogs find no need of mentioning anything else (except for some mutterings about protocol), waiting for the Lebanese to [...]

Douma To Be Re-Launched

The online video-game about Lebanese politics will be relaunched soon after months of being “forced to go offline”.

This is the text of the email I got from Ziad Feghali, the creator of Douma:
The Return of Douma:
Watch out for our imminent re-release of Douma, the game that took the nation by storm but was forced to [...]