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		<title>Hezbollah&#8217;s tourist complex</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/05/26/hezbollahs-tourist-complex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 13:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hezbollah have announced that they are opening a tourist complex commemorating the 10th anniversary of Israel&#8217;s retreat/pull-back from southern Lebanon. They will display their own weaponry along side Israelis heavy weaponry along with the usual Middle Eastern unbiased commentary. Fun for all the family. Hat tip: MEI Editor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3111&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US to give Lebanese &#8216;light attack&#8217; planes</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/02/20/us-to-give-lebanese-light-attack-planes/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/02/20/us-to-give-lebanese-light-attack-planes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[American ME Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As&#8217;ad AbuKhalil, aka the Angry Arab, translates the news that America will sell Lebanon light attack aircraft into the language of real politick. Over the top, as always, but there is a clearly a kernel of truth there. The US will not give Lebanon any weapons that can be effective against Israeli aggression, but is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=2274&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hezbollah on the famous Hummus victory of 2009</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/10/27/hezbollah-on-the-famous-hummus-victory-of-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/10/27/hezbollah-on-the-famous-hummus-victory-of-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hummus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say what you will about Hezbollah but when it comes to eeking victory out of the mildest and most inconsequential success possible, they are second to none. They, quite seriously, (for I don&#8217;t know quite how well their sense of irony is developed (not too well, I&#8217;d wager)) wrote an op-ed in their mouthpiece eulogising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=1399&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hummus Wars</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/10/26/the-hummus-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thegulfblog.com/?p=1382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As if the Middle East was not replete with Iranian nuclear tensions, an at times simmering Sunni-Shia cleft, potentially catastrophic fallout from the bungled Iraq invasion and occupation, seismic demographic pressures, entrenched and visceral conflicts between moderates and hard-line Islamists not to mention the open sore at the heart of the region&#8217;s issues, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=1382&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Der Spiegel affarir (cont.)</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/05/29/the-der-spiegel-affarir-cont/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/05/29/the-der-spiegel-affarir-cont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 08:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Young of the Daily Star in Lebanon as usual offers the best insight and analysis on Lebanese events. Read his article on the Der Spiegel affair for what is probably the most authoritative account yet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=784&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Der Spiegel</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/05/25/der-spiegel/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/05/25/der-spiegel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 12:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thegulfblog.com/?p=758</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More on Der Spiegel&#8217;s relevlations about Hariri&#8217;s assassination from CUMINet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=758&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Article catch up</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/05/25/article-catch-up-3/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/05/25/article-catch-up-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 08:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thegulfblog.com/?p=753</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a selection of the weekend&#8217;s best articles that caught my attention: Brian Ulrich has an excellent article, summarised on this blog and in full on the Arab Media and Society journal, discussing blogs as but the latest communicative media in the Middle East. It is wide-ranging, interesting and well worth a read. The Arabist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=753&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanon&#8217;s terrorist chic</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/04/27/lebanons-terrorist-chic/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/04/27/lebanons-terrorist-chic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beirut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitchens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terror tourism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an excellent post at semi-expert about the fetishisation of aspects of the Lebanese-Hezbullah discourse in the Western media. The well-written article roams from the &#8216;terror-tourism&#8221; of less than adventurous non-experts of the Middle East who get whisked around Beirut which results in &#8220;the usual enormously shallow analysis&#8221; to other themes of this pornographic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=573&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanese Embassy Opens in Damascus</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/03/17/lebanese-embassy-opens-in-damascus/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/03/17/lebanese-embassy-opens-in-damascus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damascus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ta'if Accords]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thegulfblog.com/?p=491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years after agreeing to do so, Lebanon has got around to opening/been allowed to open its Embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The initial agreement was reached at the Ta&#8217;if Accords back in 1989 which nominally ended the Lebanese Civil War. Despite protestations to the contrary, this is clearly (another) a nail in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=491&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russia’s MIG diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/03/11/russia%e2%80%99s-mig-diplomacy/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/03/11/russia%e2%80%99s-mig-diplomacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mig 29 Fulcrum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I have written before about Russia’s use of its MIG fighter planes as part of its diplomatic strategy. It seems that this instance was by no means unique. The Times of London reported back in December 2008 that it was donating 10 MiG 29 Fulcrum fighters to the Lebanese government. The article further commented that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=456&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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