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Big Words Alert

November 2, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui

Rami Khoury:

Who would have thought that a gynecologist’s office in the Hizbullah-dominated southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh would be the symbolic place where the colonial and anti-colonial struggles of the past century would reach their confrontational peak and bring to a head this long-simmering war? […] Armageddon will look like a kindergarten cookie dance if [scenario] materializes, which is now a bit more likely than it was a week ago — because of the past century, more than the past week

He puts the ‘hyper’ in hyperbole..