The Road to Fatima Gate

He sets up camp in a tent city built in downtown beirut by anti-Syrian dissidents, is bullied and menaced by Hezbollah's supposedly friendly "media relations" department, crouches under fire on the Lebanese-israeli border during the six-week war in 2006, witnesses an israeli ground invasion from beh [...]
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He sets up camp in a tent city built in downtown beirut by anti-Syrian dissidents, is bullied and menaced by Hezbollah's supposedly friendly "media relations" department, crouches under fire on the Lebanese-israeli border during the six-week war in 2006, witnesses an israeli ground invasion from behind a line of Merkava tanks, sneaks into Hezbollah's postwar rubblescape without authorization, and is attacked in beirut by militiamen who enforce obedience to the "resistance" at the point of a gun. From the cedar revolution that ousted the occupying Syrian military regime in 2005 to the devastating war between israel and Hezbollah in 2006 to Hezbollah's slow-motion but violent assault on Lebanon's elected government and capital, Totten's account is both personal and comprehensive. He simplifies the bewildering complexity of the Middle east; gains access to major regional players as well as to the man on the street; and personally witnesses most of the events he describes.The Road to Fatima Gate should be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the Middle east, iran's expansionist foreign policy, the arab-israeli conflict, asymmetric warfare, and terrorism in the aftermath of September 11.