Links from my del.icio.us account for May 18th:

• LRB · Adam Shatz: Short Cuts – The link between the companies to which immigration is outsourced and the ones to which the Iraq war is outsourced
• Food crisis creates an opening for Muslim fundamentalists – Los Angeles Times – MB in Jordan provides food relief, stokes resentment against government policies
• Edward Said’s shadowy legacy Robert Irwin TLS – Irwin on Said, again
• Lebanon politics: Square one? – EIU analysis of recent clashes
• Hezbollah Emerges in Forefront of Power in Lebanon – Anthony Shadid on Hizbullah's (probably) Pyrrhic victory: "Even its supporters cringed at the sight of Shiite militiamen sipping coffee at Starbucks, their rocket-propelled grenade launcher resting in a chair."