Israel’s “new Middle East” by Tanya Reinhart
rehna July 29th, 2006
I’ve been sent another piece on the Middle East crisis. A number of you have emailed to say you’d like more articles on the subject. Tanya Reinhart is a professor at Tel Aviv university
Beirut is burning, hundreds of Lebanese die, hundreds of thousands lose all they ever owned and become refugees, and all the world is doing is rescuing the “foreign passport” residents of what was just two weeks ago “the Paris of the Middle East”. Lebanon must die now, because “Israel has the right to defend itself”, so goes the U.S. mantra, used to block any international attempt to impose a cease fire. Continue Reading »


