Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes against targets inside Syria on Friday, U.S. officials told NBC News. It’s believed the primary target was a shipment of weapons headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon, they said. A senior U.S. official said the airstrikes were believed to be [...]
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Israel Warplanes Strike Inside Syria [Video]
Watch Israeli Warplanes Strike Weapons Convoy in Syria on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. THE PBS News Hour report with Margaret Warner above will give you the best idea of what happened. There has been analysis, including some quoted at the Council of Foreign Relations, that Assad falling would make things more difficult for [...]
Gaza Bombing Continues as Possible “Truce” is Being Floated
Israel bombed militant targets in Gaza for a fifth straight day on Sunday, launching aerial and naval attacks as its military prepared for a possible ground invasion, though Egypt saw “some indications” of a truce ahead. [Reuters] LATE SATURDAY, both Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, as well as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, weighed in on the [...]
News Desk: Bombing in Beirut Leaves 78 Injured, 8 Dead [Video]
WHAT IS being reported as a car bombing has left Beirut in a panic. CNN: The bomb was placed in a car in front of a library and 200 meters away from the office of the anti-Syrian Lebanese Phalange political movement, a Maronite Christian group. [...] The Phalange is part of the March 14 movement, [...]
Top Story: Ben Affleck’s ARGO in the Blast Furnace of Benghazi
“This is the best bad idea we have sir, by far.” – Ben Affleck in ARGO, playing C.I.A. agent Tony Mendez November 4th, 1979. As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA exfiltration specialist concocts a risky plan to free six American hostages. SOMETIMES A FILM meets with an event in history and [...]
Ann Romney and Gov. Chris Christie Take Center Stage Tonight
POLAR OPPOSITES in temperament and purpose, Mrs. Romney and Gov. Christie begin the case for Mitt Romney. Ann Romney will deliver the heart. Chris Christie will bring the muscle. Mrs. Romney’s role so far hasn’t quite worked out as expected. She’s gotten caught up in defending her husband on issues that aren’t her purview, with [...]
News Desk: Monitoring War Crimes in Syria from the Sky, as Conflict Spreads to Lebanon
**UPDATED** HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, which I call war crimes, now can be documented through satellite imaging. From PBS “News Hour” on Wednesday: MARGARET WARNER: The fighting in Aleppo is now being monitored by a human rights organization using commercially available satellite imaging. Amnesty International recently commissioned DigitalGlobe, which operates three private satellites out of this [...]
Egyptian Revolution Inspired by Liberalism
“He gave me a lesson in democracy and said: ‘We see the democracy the United States spearheaded in Iran and with Hamas, in Gaza, and that’s the fate of the Middle East,’” Ben-Eliezer said. “‘They may be talking about democracy but they don’t know what they’re talking about and the result will be extremism and [...]
Egypt Envoy Embarrasses Obama, Channels Dick Cheney
“The President must stay in office in order to steer those changes through. I therefore believe President Mubarak’s continued leadership is critical. It’s his opportunity to write his own legacy. He has given 60 years of his life to the service of his country and this is an ideal moment for him to show the [...]
EGYPT: Al Jazeera and White House Mixed Messaging in the Age of Wikileak Cables, Twitter and Facebook
**UPDATES BELOW** This has been an extraordinary week. What follows is a remarkable story I’ve done my best to unpack and requires a lot of investment on your part. I don’t claim this is perfectly packaged, but I’ve done the very best I can on a story I think is historic, including news late last [...]
Arab Eruptions
…I’m skeptical too. But I found it unsatisfying to settle for such skepticism as I watched the massive demonstrations unfold in Egypt on my Twitter feed while moderating a panel discussion on Tunisia yesterday (I plead guilty). As I’ve been arguing for the last month, something does seem to be happening at a regional level, [...]
Meanwhile, Today in Egypt
**UPDATED** The big news around the sphere is Pres. Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. But not around here, as something serious is brewing in Egypt… and so far no one is covering it, but that won’t last long. Just a few moments ago (6:45 pm EST)… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Protests have brought Cairo to a [...]
Wikileaks Diplo Docu Dump
Italy’s Foreign Minister Frattini called the Wikileaks release the “Sept. 11 of world diplomacy.” Republicans are jumping on the leak, as expected, because transparency scares the bejeezus out of the Right. Rep. Pete Hoekstra using hyperbole to say what allies might ask, “‘Can the United States be trusted? Can the United States keep a secret?’” [...]
What Israeli Actions have Wrought
It is time Israel realized that it has obligations to the United States, as well as the United States to Israel, and that it become far more careful about the extent to which it test the limits of U.S. patience and exploits the support of American Jews. This does not mean taking a single action [...]
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