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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
NEW YORK--()-- announced today that has been promoted to partner as of July 1st, resident in the New York, N.Y. office. Currently a counsel with the Firm, Mr. Smith focuses on transactional aspects of commercial lending, loan restructuring and bankruptcy matters. He has been in practice for twenty-two years, including more than a decade of in-house counsel experience with prominent international...
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Mystical Politics (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
More on Obama and the Middle East, this time Lebanon. An aticle by Lee Smith on Michael Totten's website - The Tea Boy - calls into question his knowledge and tendencies in Lebanon, which according to his analysis might lead Obama to be much too accommodating to Syria. This would definitely not be good for Lebanon, which is backing Hezbollah in its attempt to take over the country. See also...
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Solomonia (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
At MJT's, Lee Smith conveys a report from a friend and colleague in Lebanon, Elie Fawaz, who says: The War for Lebanon has not even begun yet in earnest and Hezbollah's “victory” in Beirut is not all it seems:...
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
By Lee Smith Our friend and colleague in Lebanon Elie Fawaz writes in to remind us that The War for Lebanon has not even begun yet in earnest and Hezbollah's “victory” in Beirut is not all it seems: “So, we know that Hezbollah's well-trained fighters are in control of most of west Beirut. The decision taken by Walid Jumblat and Saad al-Hariri not to fight back in Beirut, but rather hand most...
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
By Lee Smith The other day the Obama campaign distanced itself from Robert Malley for his dealings with Hamas. Never mind the disingenuousness of a campaign that up until the day before yesterday when he was fired from the campaign said Malley was not with the campaign, even though a New York Times defense in his behalf said he was with the campaign. What is manifestly clear however is that Obama...
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
by Lee Smith David Wurmser, formerly Vice President Cheney's Middle East adviser, writes in to comment on Iran's role in the Beirut crisis. “Iran has suffered some pretty serious defeats in Iraq, foremost is that the Shiites there kind of turned on Iran. May they not need to pull back and focus on their role as the champion of the Shiites right now, even at the cost of compromising their efforts...
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
By Tony Badran (cross-posted at Across the Bay ) Fighting in Beirut has broken out between Hezbollah/Amal and Future Movement supporters. Here's a brief look at the military situation. For a political reading, see the post by Lee Smith below, and make sure to read the excellent quoted op-ed by Michael Young. The tactics are reminiscent of the 1970s-80s war, with two essential differences: 1-...
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
By Lee Smith Elie Fawaz, a friend and colleague with the Lebanese Renaissance Foundation in Beirut, provides on-the-ground analysis on the developing situation in Lebanon: “Beirut witnessed another round of sectarian violence yesterday following decisions of the Lebanese government to sanction and remove Hezbollah's illegal private telecommunication lines, and to replace the head of the international...
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Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
May 8, 2008 Hezbollah's Endgame? By Lee Smith Elie Fawaz, a friend and colleague with the Lebanese Renaissance Foundation in Beirut, provides on-the-ground analysis on the developing situation in Lebanon: "Beirut witnessed another round of sectarian violence yesterday following decisions of the Lebanese government to sanction and remove Hezbollah's illegal private telecommunication lines, and...
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Winds of Change.NET (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Lee Smith laments that American Muslims have to read almost exclusively about scary Muslims and slightly less scary Muslims in the mainstream American media. “One can only sympathize with American Muslims,” he writes, those who may or may not be religious, but surely have no attachment to the obscurantist fanatics that drove them from the region, and must now be wondering what is wrong with...
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
I'll have a proper-length dispatch published here shortly, and in the meantime here's a short one for you to chew on over at Commentary . Lee Smith laments that American Muslims have to read almost exclusively about scary Muslims and slightly less scary Muslims in the mainstream American media. “One can only sympathize with American Muslims,” he writes, those who may or may not be religious,...
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
By Lee Smith After the Hamas-loving Bensonhurst imam , Tariq Ramadan , and feel-good sharia , yet more from the New York Times on Moderate Islam . A story about Pakistani schools opened by Fetullah Gulen, a controversial Turkish theologian and political activist with close ties to Ankara's ruling AK Party. “He has lived in exile in the United States since 2000,” writes the Times, “after getting...
