After 1948, the Arab conflict with Israel was waged with an Arab nationalist outlook and sensibility. Satii al-Husari gave a famous response to those who said Israel had defeated seven Arab armies that year. The late nationalist intellectual believed that the reason for the defeat was precisely the existence of seven Arab armies instead of just one.
[A]ny regime s foreign policy is basically a continuation of its domestic policies. The Khomeinist revolution s ambition was to transform the Iranian society into a vehicle for "exporting revolution" which, as "Supreme Guide" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei often
Over the past half a century what is called “Iranology” has developed into a global industry with dozens of think-tanks, institutes, faculties and pressure groups trying to understand and explain what is going on in the Iran created by Khomerini in 1979. Patterned on Kremlinology, a bustling industry during the old War, Iranology ignored Iran’s history and culture and assumed that rather than being an epiphenomenon, like Bolshevism turned out to be, is a true and thus permanent expression of Iranian nationhood.
May God be kind on Abu Nuwas, who wrote the following verse in one of his most renowned poems: "You are astonished by my Illness?. It is my health that should astonish you!" It came to mind as it had become clear to me that the so-called "Mar Mikhael Agreement," which was signed in Mar Mikhael church located in the Chiyyah neighborhood in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, was coming to an end.
The beginning of the end of the most dangerous agreement Lebanon has ever seen arabnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arabnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.