Palestine Think Tank

WRITTEN BY DAN ALBA
The United States government is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism.
George Bush, Dick Cheney, and fellow neocons—including most member of Congress, the State Department, the Pentagon, and so-called think tanks—are war criminals, terrorists, and traitors. They have hijacked U.S. policy and have chosen to continue and accelerate on a crookedly jagged path [...]

Tadamon! presents an outstanding interview with Lebanese political commentator and professor Karim Makdisi. He offers a critique on the recently signed political agreement on Lebanon’s future signed in Doha, Qatar as without long term substance. As media outlets across the world followed closely the most recent political conflict in Lebanon, seldom was the countries major economic crisis [...]

WRITTEN BY JOHN CATALINOTTO
Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, popular because of their successful resistance to past Israeli attacks on the country, have answered a provocation from the U.S.- backed Lebanese government and at the same time handed a sharp military defeat to rightist forces, especially in Beirut. By May 12 heavy fighting between the Hezbollah-led opposition [...]

(Arabic translation below)
WRITTEN BY ABDUL BARI ATWAN,Editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Translated by Adib S. Kawar
The last four days uncovered the reality of the balance of power in Lebanon, for when the pro-government leaders, such as Saad Al-Hariri and Walid Jumblatt find themselves under siege, and cannot leave their headquarters, and ask for the army’s protection, [...]

(illustration by Mazen Kerbaj - translation below*)
What is going on today in Lebanon is just an extension of the situation in the entire region. The US and its western allies are trying to show everyone that religion is the main factor of this dispute and they are trying to cover the political motivations and especially [...]

Israeli soldiers suffering from post-traumatic disorder as a result of the 2006 war with Hezbollah are being treated with the mind-altering drug Ecstasy, local media reported.
An Israeli medical team has started tests using Ecstasy as a treatment for conflict-linked s suffered mainly by troops who fought against Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Maariv daily reported on Friday. [...]