by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 26, 2010 | Society
We’re not the only ones who have a grudge against Starbucks (though our motives are completely different): …the official site of Korean Starbucks, the world famous coffee brand, puts “Taiwan” under China in its nationality selections, which has aroused an...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 26, 2010 | Security
Remember the Danny F II, the ship carrying livestock form the Ukraine to Tartous in Syria that sank off the coast of Tripoli in December? Well apparently, other than UNFIL, the Lebanese Navy and the British Army (stationed in Cyprus), Israel also took part in the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jan 5, 2010 | Society
How many of us could forget this scene: Or this: Well, the Israelis cant: At the risk of whipping up discord with Lebanon, an Arab-Israeli village is planning to make the world’s biggest hummus, a humble chickpea dip that stirs passions across the Middle East....
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 30, 2009 | Business, Society
No, its not that the Hezbollah-coerced ban on Anne Frank’s Diary has been lifted; actually its the other way around: Books translated in “hostile countries” will soon be allowed to be sold in Israel, after the Ministerial Committee for Legislation...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 15, 2009 | Regional News
This issue regularly pops up now and then with Lebanon’s neighbors believing that the solution to the country’s problems involves handing it over to Israel or Syria. Take for instance the editorial by Turki Al-Sudairi, the editor-in-chief of the Saudi...
