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Libya’s Women Freedom Fighters

If you add these machine-gun-wielding ladies to the female bodyguards of Gaddafi, we might come up with a general theory about a Libyan tradition of female militarism. Stieg Larsson would have loved this..

Mustapha Hamoui · Jun 2, 2011

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Second Thoughts

Remember the pledge by Hamas and Hezbollah and the Palestinian factions to hold massive demonstrations on June 5th at the Israeli borders to send the message that the Palestinian people want to go back to the 1948 borders?

Mustapha Hamoui · Jun 1, 2011

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Hezbollah as a Political Metaphor In The US

The “Hezbollah wing” of the Republican party is the one that “gets ahold of the steering wheel and drives right off the cliff”. That was a reference to Hezbollah’s suicidal past (which is how most Americans think of Hezbollah), but the steering wheel definition works surprisingly well in the Lebanese context too..

Mustapha Hamoui · Jun 1, 2011

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