I got my paper copy of the April-May issue of Boston review in the middle of the week. It has my big piece on Hizbullah in it. It looks pretty good, except they insisted I take out the footnotes. Waaaah! I love footnotes! A writer can have an entirely different kind of a conversation with the reader if she is allowed to use footnotes… But no. The copy-editor, Josh Friedman, said they “want to look more like the Atlantic Monthly“, or something.
Oh well. Even worse news is that they haven’t put my piece up on the website yet. I thought maybe when they do, I’ll upload my footnoted version here, and y’all can choose which one you want to read.
Meanwhile, however, Roula Khalaf of the Financial Times has snagged an intriguing interview with Hizbullah #2 Sheikh Naim Qassim, in which he suggests that Hizbullah could find a formula for its militia to coordinate even more closely with, or become a “reserve wing” of, the Lebanese Army– but not until after Israel pulls its forces out of the Shebaa Farms district, a tiny and almost unpopulated portion of land that both Lebanon and Syria say is Lebanese, but Israel and the UN say is Syrian.
Khalaf writes:
- Mr Qassim confirmed that one potential alternative would be for Hizbollah fighters to become a kind of
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=659881
Hezbollah said in a broadcast over its Al-Manar Television channel that “a Mirsad drone of the Islamic Resistance flew over settlements in the northern part of occupied Palestine and later returned safely.”