Was the Second Lebanon War Worth It?
Or merely an adumbration of the next one?
June 24, 2016
Missing the big picture.
Earlier this month, the celebrated Lebanese-born French author Amin Maalouf was interviewed by an Israeli television station, sparking an outcry from the Lebanese BDS movement, which in turn led to defenses of Maalouf in the Lebanese press and social media. Surveying the ensuing debate, Hanin Ghaddar takes Maalouf’s defenders to task:
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Also, exploit social media and contain Iran.
One theological, one liberal.
Missing the big picture.
In this week's Torah reading, God feeds the people quail “until it comes out of their noses.”