Featured Event: "Covering Lebanon:
Media and the 2006 War"
April
3, 2007 (Tues), 9 am-6 pm—"Covering Lebanon,"
Conference on Media and the Recent War at UCLA
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room. Several panels and a concluding
roundtable will examine how the U.S. media presented the war
in Lebanon, in contrast to international media representations.
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Featured Article
The New Creative Destruction
By Mark LeVine
August 22, 2006, Asia
Times
If there is one question one could ask Hezbollah leader Hassan
Nasrallah today, it would be this: When did you begin planning
for the reconstruction of south Lebanon? Before you kidnapped
two Israeli soldiers on July 12, or only after it became clear
how much of south Lebanon Israel was willing to destroy to
"win" its war against you?
Either way, it was the latest master stroke in a string of
decisions that have confounded Israel, the United States and
the world at large. Indeed, while critics of the Israeli invasion
claim—with increasing evidence—that Israel planned
the attack well in advance (even with the support from the
administration of US President George W. Bush), it now appears
that it was Hezbollah that suckered Israel into a war for
which it had perfectly planned each component: the bait—the
kidnapping of two soldiers; the military tactics - tunnels,
missile barrages and advanced anti-tank weapons; and the post-fighting
reconstruction—a large-scale effort that only Hezbollah,
and not the feckless Lebanese government, is capable of undertaking.
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