Login | Register

Most Popular Choices

7

JUAN COLE: Congress Expects Islamic Dawa to Support Israel, Condemn Hizbullah

Quicklink Submitted By Amanda Lang No comments

Amanda Lang

Become a Fan
(9 fans)

members of Congress don't seem to realize that the Iraqi Dawa helped to form the Lebanese Hizbullah in the 80s. The Dawa was in exile in Tehran, Damascus and Beirut and it formed a terror wing called, generically, Islamic Jihad. The IJ cell of the Dawa attacked the US and French embassies in Kuwait in 1983. Iraqi PM Maliki was the bureau chief of the Dawa cell in Damascus in the 1980s.

Read the rest of the story HERE:

At www.indybay.org

Rate It | View Ratings

Amanda Lang Social Media Pages:

OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.

Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.

Related Topic(s): Congress; Foreign Policy Failures Israel Middle Ea; Hezbollah; International Politics; Iraq; Israel; Israeli Lebanon Conflict; Lebanon; Lobbyists- K- Street; PACs Political Action Committees; (more...) USA United States Of America, Add Tags (less...)

Go To Commenting

The views expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.

Contact Author

Contact Editor

Author Page

View Authors' Articles

OpEdNews ~~depends upon~~ can't survive without your help.

If you value this article and the work of OpEdNews, please either Donate or Purchase a premium membership.

STAY IN THE KNOW
If you've enjoyed this, sign up for our daily or weekly newsletter to get lots of great progressive content.

To View Comments or Join the Conversation:

Congress Switchboard: 202-224-3121

To remove advertising from OpEd News, please become a premium member.

"Wonderful work! An insightful, integrative adventure into what makes humans flourish. Rob Kall shows us that we know how to do this, that most of human history was about connection and that there are ways to make it happen again. He offers real solutions and practical suggestions for taking back the world for community, connection and well-being?away from hierarchy, exclusion, and destruction. A new handbook for the necessary revolution!"

Darcia Narvaez, Professor of psychology, Notre Dame, University, author of Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom

Art Instruction for People
At All Skill Levels

Top Content
in the Last 2 Days
(by Page Views)

Who would Jesus slaughter? by Rick Staggenborg, MD ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Trump ran up more debt than any other president; he could erase it all too by Scott Baker ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Cancer Research Canceled along with Human Decency! by Dr. Lenore Daniels ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Witnessing Gaza by Katie Singer ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Will Hamas choose peace or war? by Steven Sahiounie ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Awful Transformation of Bernie Sanders by earl ofari hutchinson ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon: Building the Road to Peace by Marcia G. Yerman ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Carvalhos Quiet Renewal: LAUSD Extends Superintendents Contract Without Public Input by Carl Petersen ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Federal Government shutdown as of 12:01 Wednesday by Dave Lefcourt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Big Question About the UN Security Council's Gaza Ceasefire Resolution by Thomas Knapp ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Eating Healthy is Do-able / Eating healthily on the fly (plus thoughts on hypoglycemia) by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Lots of problems from the top by Bob Gaydos ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Yes, James Comey is a Liar ... and a Distraction by Thomas Knapp ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Eclipse as Cosmic Muse by Meryl Ann Butler ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

USA versus most world: Will human right to health and gender equality take primacy? by Citizen News Service - CNS ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

"National Defense Strategy": A Novel And Unlikely, But Welcome, Proposition by Thomas Knapp ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The End of Recessions in the United States? by Joel Joseph ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Shutdown Theater, Briar Patch Edition by Thomas Knapp ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Unmoored: Trump's Neo-Isolationism and Beijing's Rising Tide by Robert Weiner ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

What Abolishing Militaries Includes by David Swanson ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

RFK: Legacy and the Long Shadow of the Coup dtat by John Hawkins ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Tomgram: Alfred W. McCoy, A Dying American Empire, "Rotten to the Heart"? by Tom Engelhardt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

How Passive Authoritarianism Enabled History 's Worst Regimes by Rob Kall ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Positive Visions of the Future by Blair Gelbond ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

IMAGINING OUR FUTURE: PERILS AND PROMISE Story 1: The Global Brain Is Waking Up by Blair Gelbond ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Go To Top 50 Most Popular

Ad info: click here

opednews.com

Classics of Liberal Thinking

Progressive Radio Links