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Authors: Lee Smith
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7.
Robert Kaplan,
The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
(New York, 1993).
8.
Asher Kaufman,
Reviving Phoenicia: The Search for Identity in Lebanon
(London, 2004).
9.
In correspondence with Asher Kaufman.
Chapter 10: The Capital of Arab Resistance10.
United Nations Security Council, “Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Lebanon Inquiring into the Causes, Circumstances, and Consequences of the Assassination of Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri,” executive summary, Feb. 25-March 24, 2005,
domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/3822b5e39951876a85256b6eoo58a478/79cd8aaa858fdd2d85256fd5oo536o47!OpenDocument
.
1.
Since the constitution stipulated that the president of Syria had to be a Muslim, in 1973 Hafez al-Assad aligned himself with one of Lebanon’s Shia leaders, Musa al-Sadr, who declared that the Alawis were recognized as “brothers” of the Shia. This cover later facilitated closer relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Shia theocracy. Cf. Fouad Ajami,
The Vanished Imam: Musa al-Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon
(Ithaca, N.Y., 1986).
2.
Daniel Pipes,
Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition
(New York, 1990).
3.
Ibid.
4.
Ibid.
6.
www.aawsat.com/details.asp?section=4&issueno=11114&article=517594
.
7.
Karen DeYoung, “Papers Paint New Picture of Iraq’s Foreign Insurgents,”
Washington Post
, Jan. 21, 2008, p. A1.
Chapter 11: Middle East Cold War and the Israeli Strong Horse
1.
“Nasrallah Sorry for Scale of War,” BBC News, Aug. 27, 2006,
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5291420.stm
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3.
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/24/newsid_2478000/2478505.stm
.
4.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, “The ‘New Middle East’ Bush Is Resisting,”
Washington Post
, Aug. 23, 2006.
Conclusion5.
In fact it is not clear whether the Shebaa Farms are Lebanese or Syrian. For example, Walid Jumblatt said in the winter of 2008, “The Shebaa Farms are not Lebanese. They become Lebanese when the Syrian government agrees to delineate these Farms with the Lebanese government, and we send the joint document to the UN.” See
www.psp.org.lb/Default.aspx?tabid=107&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=10134
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1.
This account is greatly indebted to Martin Kramer, “Sacrifice and ‘Self-Martyrdom’ in Shi’ite Lebanon,” in
Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival
(New Brunswick, N.J., 1996). Also available at
www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/Sacrifice.htm
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ABOUT THE AUTHORL
EE
S
MITH
is a Middle East correspondent for the
Weekly Standard.
He has written for
Slate
, the
New York Times
, the
Boston Globe
, and a variety of Arab media outlets. He is also a visiting fellow of the Hudson Institute. A native of New York, he lives in Washington, D.C.
Copyright © 2010 by Lee Smith
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Smith, Lee, 1962–
The strong horse : power, politics and the clash of Arab civilizations / Lee Smith.
—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Arab nationalism. 2. Civilization, Arab—20th century.
3. Civilization, Arab—21st century. 4. Nationalism—Arab
countries. 5. Group identity—Arab countries.
6. United States—Foreign relations—Arab countries.
7. Arab countries—Foreign relations—United States.
8. Lebanon—Politics and government—1975–
9. Lebanon—History—Civil War, 1975–1990. 10. Lebanon—
History—1990– I. Title.
D63.6.S656 2009
956.05—dc22 2009012688
eISBN: 978-0-385-53220-4
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