Al Jazeera English - News - Israel Condemned Over Lebanon War: "Indiscriminate Israeli attacks were responsible for the high civilian death toll in Lebanon in last year's war against Hezbollah, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report. The report, released on Thursday, accused Israeli air raids of causing 'most of the approximately 900 civilian deaths' during the war."
Broken Spring? : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.
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