Archivo etiqueta «Líbano»
David Hirst reported from the Middle East for the Guardian from 1963 to 2001 (THE GUARDIAN, 14/07/06):
The Lebanese people, habitues as few people are of the lethal, violent and unexpected, yesterday awoke to the kind of news they thought they had put behind them. Their brand-new airport, the pride of their postwar reconstruction, had been bombarded by Israeli war planes along with a host of other infrastructure projects, bringing death and devastation on a more than Gazan scale.
For some it inevitably brought to mind a bleak winter day in 1968 when, out of the blue, helicopter-borne Israeli commandos … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 14/07/06):
Israel’s assault on Lebanon, following Hizbullah’s cross-border raid on Wednesday and weeks of unremitting bloodshed in Gaza, brought demands yesterday for international action to contain the crisis and mediate an end to the fighting. But the US, with its unmatched influence over Israel and as self-appointed guardian of the Middle East peace process, appeared reluctant to intervene.Lebanon’s appeal for the UN security council to step in is supported by most Arab governments and by France, Lebanon’s former colonial master and the current security council president.
But the council has been vainly trying for a … Seguir leyendo
Por Mario Vargas LLosa (EL PAÍS, 02/07/06):
No hay lugar más adecuado para leer el apasionante ensayo de Amin Maalouf sobre las “identidades homicidas” (Les Identités meurtrières) que el remozado Café d’Orient, desde cuyas terrazas se divisa el interminable Paseo Marítimo de Beirut, con sus flamantes rascacielos, los ríos de automóviles que lo recorren y la variopinta muchedumbre de sus veredas donde se codean mujeres veladas de pies a cabeza y bellas muchachas con los cabellos al viento que muestran vientres, brazos, muslos, espaldas, con la desenvoltura de las parisinas o neoyorquinas. Y probablemente en ningún otro país se hubiera … Seguir leyendo
El Dr. Walid Phares es un experto en terrorismo, fundamentalismo islámico y movimientos yihadistas. Es miembro decano de la Fundación de la Defensa de las Democracias (GEES, 18/05/06):
El 26 de abril del 2005, las fotografías de “los últimos” soldados sirios se veían por todo el mundo. Hoy, en el primer aniversario anual de la retirada de las fuerzas regulares sirias del Líbano, hay motivos de celebración y otros motivos de gran preocupación. Mientras que los controles sirios se han desvanecido de Beirut y las diversas regiones del Líbano, muchas preguntas rondan la mente aún de la mayor parte de … Seguir leyendo
An interview with Fouad Siniora, Lebanon’s new prime minister (THE WASHINGTON POST, 24/04/06):
Lebanon’s new prime minister, Fouad Siniora, visited President Bush last week as Lebanon struggles to emerge as a free and democratic country. Although Syria has withdrawn its troops from Lebanon, it has not given up the battle to influence the country through the intelligence agents it left behind. Last week Newsweek-Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth talked with Siniora in New York. Excerpts:
Q: The pro-Syria, anti-freedom forces are much stronger now than they were last spring before the election. Why?
A: They are reorganizing their groups to … Seguir leyendo
David Ignatius (THE WASHINGTON POST, 02/02/06):
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Shiite militia Hezbollah, said Thursday that a political stalemate that has paralyzed Lebanon is “99 percent resolved” and that Shiite Cabinet ministers are likely to return to their posts soon, allowing the Lebanese government to function normally again.
The five Shiite members of the Lebanese Cabinet have been boycotting meetings for the past month, plunging the country into what Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said in an interview Wednesday night was a “political crisis.”
Nasrallah’s comment in an interview with The Washington Post today was the first public indication … Seguir leyendo
Hassan Mneimneh, licenciado de Harvard, es un conocido activista libanés (GEES, 10/01/06):
Está en la naturaleza de las dictaduras no saber aceptar la derrota. La dictadura de Bashar al-Asad en Siria no es una excepción. Habiendo sido expulsado del Líbano con motivo del fracaso de su apuesta por extender su ocupación y explotación de su vecino menor más débil, el asesinato de su exprimer ministro Rafiq Hariri, un aliado que resultó ser un opositor poderoso, el régimen sirio tuvo que considerar su retirada como movimiento táctico, a ser corregido e invertido tan pronto como las condiciones estén lo bastante … Seguir leyendo
Lebanon: Managing the Gathering Storm. Middle East Report N°48 (International Crisis Group, 05/12/05).
Asesinato del ex primer ministro libanés Rafik Hariri: ¿Qué pasa si Siria es culpable? Michael Young, es editor de opinión del Daily Star, del Líbano y editor de colaboraciones de la revista norteamericana Reason (GEES, 21/09/05).