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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Lebanon amid angry protests against his stance on Israel’s month-long offensive in the war-ravaged country, AFP reported. Correspondents say Blair held talks with top Lebanese officials, mainly discussing the disarmament of the resistance group Hezbollah. On Sunday, Lebanon’s most senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, called on the government to declare the British Prime Minister “persona non grata” and cancel his visit.

“Time’s glory is to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.” - William Shakespeare. In an action unprecedented in Maryland politics, Kevin Zeese, an Independent candidate in Maryland for the U.S. Senate, has demanded that an incumbent congressman, who has close ties to the powerful Israeli Lobby, break his silence on Israeli wrongdoing

MAALOT-TARSHIHA, Israel The Lebanese militia Hezbollah killed 12 Israelis - 8 civilians and 4 soldiers - on Thursday, making it Israel’s deadliest day in more than three weeks of conflict. As Israeli troops tried to create a narrow buffer zone inside Lebanon and bombed southern Beirut, Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, warned

Despite all the achievements of advanced technology, Israeli soldiers are powerless in the face of Hezbollah’s home-made missiles. After ten years of joint work by Israel and the USA, constructors rejected the idea of creating a laser gun for the national air defense. This wonder-weapon cannot resist Hezbollah’s missile fire. Ten years were spent

A series of Israeli air strikes in eastern Gaza City killed more than 13 Palestinians, including a three-year-old girl, medics said on Wednesday, according to Reuters news agency. Israel has launched a deadly offensive in Gaza to pressure the Hamas-led Palestinian government, whose armed wing is part of three resistance groups who captured

Israel has intensified its offensive in Gaza and Lebanon, killing dozens of innocent civilians and inflicting unprecedented damage on the Palestinian and Lebanese infrastructure and economy. Here, Noam Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the staunchest critics of the U.S. policies, tells Demo

Broumana, Lebanon: Hundreds of Gulf national tourists fled Lebanon on Friday through the Lebanese-Syrian border after Beirut airport was shut down since Israeli air raids damaged the runways on Thursday. Tens of Gulf nationals drove their private cars through Al Masna’a custom’s checkpoint at the Lebanese-Syrian border on Friday.

Israeli warships and aircraft were clamping down on Lebanon’s air, sea and land infrastructure on Friday, three days after Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. Israeli warplanes destroyed a building housing the headquarters of Hezbollah guerrillas in south Beirut late Friday, AP reported.