Worth Reading

The Boston Globe reports that Hezbollah is trying to seize more political power in Lebanon:

Now, Hezbollah and an allied Christian political party led by General Michel Aoun are demanding a government reshuffle that would give them more positions — and would in effect give Hezbollah veto power over any legislation. They have threatened to boycott the government or try to bring it down through strikes and street demonstrations if they don’t get more posts.

* In the Daily Telegraph, Tom Leonard blasts the UK license fee’s support for biased BBC coverage.

* For the first time, Hamas acknowledged that one of it’s own died when a smuggling tunnel collapsed. See AP/Jerusalem Post coverage.