findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A Lebanese industrialist is hoping to file suit against Israel for appropriating Lebanese dishes like hummus, tabbouleh and falafel.
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The Muslims in and around Israel showed the famous Muslim respect for other religions, in only the way they can. First, Syria has moved thousands of soldiers to its border with Lebanon. So it’s no surprise that the IDF scrambled jets as an unidentified aircraft approached Israel’s northern border. Inside Israel, we had Arab “youths” racing their [...]
Middle East and Other Musings (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
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The Emirates Economist (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Foreign Policy blog : Lebanon plans to charge Israel with violating a food copyright by marketing provisions such as hummus and falafel as Israeli, Fadi Abboud, the president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association announced Monday. Abboud contends that these foods are historically Lebanese, and that Israel's appropriation of them has cost the Levantine country profits "estimated at tens of millions...
English Webster (Free subscription) | yesterday
Karnit Goldwasser is most commonly known as the widow of IDF soldier Ehud Goldwasser, who was abducted by Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement during the Second Lebanon-Israel War. Before that tragedy took place, however, she was busy doing things other than lobby for the release of her husband and... ...to keep reading, visit Green Prophet...
The Radical Moderate (Free subscription) | yesterday
Idiots call the conflict in the summer of 2006 the Second Lebanon War. It was really the fourth: 1948, 1978, 1980 & 2006. Now there's a fifth. At least it's funny. In recent years, Israeli food companies have been successfully marketing some foods abroad. The main success: Hummus. Lebanon, it seems, has just declared it wants to sue Israel for doing so. How you sue a country, we're not sure. How to...
The anger of a Quiet Man (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over who owns hummus? http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/9986 Wed, 10/08/2008 - 10:56am David Silverman/Getty Images Lebanon plans to charge Israel with violating a food copyright by marketing provisions such as hummus and falafel as Israeli, Fadi Abboud, the president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association announced Monday. Abboud contends that these foods are historically Lebanese, and that Israel's...
s o s (Free subscription) | yesterday
HTML clipboard JERUSALEM -- Three senior Israeli military commanders have threatened to decimate Lebanon's infrastructure with disproportionate firepower, wipe out villages in the south from where they believe attacks on Israel originate and to treat both the Lebanese government and the entire country as the enemy not just Hezbollah, in the next war. In an interview Friday with the Israeli daily Yediot...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | yesterday
Far From Learning The Lessons Of Past Conflict, The Country's Military Seem Ever More Willing To Resort To Brute Force By Ben White Tuesday October 07 2008 13:30 BST Courtesy Of The Guardian For Israel, the aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon war was all about questions. What mistakes were made, and who made them? What could be done to restore the Israeli military's "deterrence" after a widely perceived...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lebanon and Israel fight over hummus. Goldberg sees shades of the Apocalypse.
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
BEIRUT - The latest conflict cooking between Lebanon and Israel is all about food: Lebanese businessmen are accusing Israel of stealing traditionally Middle Eastern dishes like hummus. Fadi Abboud, president of the Lebanese Industrialists...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
More than two years after Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon sparked a deadly 34-day war with Israel, Lebanon is launching a new battle against Israel. Only this time it's over food. Lebanese food makers claim that Israel is stealing traditional Arabic dishes such as hummus and tabbouleh and claiming that they are Israeli. "It's not enough that they are stealing our land," Fadi Abboud, head of the Lebanese...
biladsham (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Even hummus and falafel (mashed and fried dishes made from chickpeas), two traditional Arab dishes which over time have also become popular in Israel, will be able to bear the mark of a registered product with protected origins, like Italian parmesan and Greek feta. This announcement was made by the president of the Lebanese industrial association Fadi Abbud, who was quoted this morning by the Beirut...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The latest conflict simmering between Lebanon and Israel is all about food: Lebanese businessmen accusing Israel of stealing traditional...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
A Lebanese trade group is accusing Israel of falsely taking credit for traditional Middle Eastern dishes like hummus.
