Tag: violence in the middle east

This Week with George Stephanopoulos Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, on the status of diplomatic efforts to end the violence in the Middle East Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., on the growing battle against Hezbollah. ROUNDTABLE: Fareed Zakaria, Jay Carney, Claire Shipman, and George Will. Meet the Press Israel’s […]

Yesterday was a picnic in the Middle East in contrast to the situation today: Israeli forces struck Beirut’s international airport for the second time Thursday, hitting fuel tanks that exploded into fireballs. The attack came soon after two rockets struck the northern Israeli port of Haifa on a day of spiraling violence and deepening crisis. […]