Locations of the Ahwar of Southern Iraq, World Heritage Site.

Around 20,000 Marsh Arabs live in southern Iraq.

The marshes today remain one of the poorest areas in Iraq.

The wetlands span thousands of square miles in the middle of desert.

Alwash says he feels vindicated by the UNESCO listing.

But the marshes that survived for thousands of years have taken a beating in recent decades. Iraqi governments since the 1950s began draining parts of the marshes to expand agriculture and drill for oil.

The hawks were right to be in a hurry.

Much of the land along the Gulf Coast is, or was, marshland.

Both parties include conservatives and liberals, defense hawks and doves.

This is why most economists are deficit hawks.

Neither the hawks nor the doves (nor anyone else) expected that.

But since Saddam was toppled in 2003, there have been efforts to restore the suffering marsh ecosystems.

There are still threats to the marshes primarily from agricultural runoff as well as drought attributed to climate change.

It's known about the Amur Falcon. This guy, unfortunately, one of these met an unfortunate end.

Ideological hawks usually come from the National Religious Party and from members of the Likud.

The hawks also suffer from what can be called a catch up complex.

A few years ago, people were looking and laughing at me saying why do you want to restore the marshes?

No American band sold more records than the Eagles during the 1970s.

In the 1980s, at war with Iran, Saddam Hussein sped up their destruction so the marshes couldn't serve as a refuge for fighters.

As a result, they can pull the plug on the program if its stringent criteria are not met.

Iraqi American environmentalist Azzam Alwash and Nature Iraq, the group he founded, have set up an eco camp in the heart of the marshes.

On the surface, party competition has been between left and right, or hawks and doves.

But American hawks want what most opposition leaders in Libya have expressly rejected.

While men in the marshes fish, women and girls do most of the manual labor including cutting and transporting the reeds.

Some students of ancient history believe the marshes, lined with reeds, teeming with fish and filled with birds, are the site of the biblical Garden of Eden.

On June 17, the UN cultural agency, UNESCO, added the marshlands and the ancient Sumerian cities that once flourished among them to its list of World Heritage Sites.

Ideological hawks view the occupied territories as an integral part of the historical Land of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people.

The marshes are in one of the safer parts of Iraq, just a few hours from Basra, but there are few foreign visitors.

Inhabitants of the marshes known as the Ma dan share the floating islands where they build reed houses with domesticated water buffalo, usually a household s most valuable possession.

It will not die any time soon in the Israeli aviary both doves and hawks are capable phoenixes.

Basically, there are two species of Israeli hawks call one kind ideological and the other strategic.

Not all ideological hawks are religious, although those who are base their claim on divine promises and prophecies.

In short, Sharon was the ideal center candidate a leader who reconciled a dovish approach with a hawkish outlook.

But many ideological hawks are secular nationalists, and their jargon is similar to that of typical Central and Eastern European nationalists.

The doves got massive liquidity, but, with the economy now strengthening, the hawks are insisting on bringing QE to an end.

The marshlands are on a main migratory bird path from Africa. With the water and fish stocks restored, pelicans, flamingoes and marbled teal ducks fill the skies.

After all, a strong economy makes it easier for the ECB hawks to sell rate hikes.

First, he admitted that eventually a Palestinian state would emerge something unthinkable for dyed in the wool ideological hawks.

When Iraqi Shiites, Kurds, and Marsh Arabs rebelled against Hussein, they believed that American forces would protect them against their brutal dictator s superior firepower.

Ariel Sharon, who comes from a military background he grew up in a social milieu much nearer to Labor than to Jabotinsky's ideas is a strategic hawk.

Strategic hawks, however, are open to practical bargains and compromises if the circumstances are right and if the security considerations justify it in their eyes.

But will the ECB see it this way? As a matter of principle, the hawks refuse to consider the political costs of their actions.

If India s pursuit of peace strengthens like minded Pakistani politicians who are struggling against their own hawks, it is worth attempting.

Heavy reliance on what turns out to be disputed evidence now leaves the fiscal hawks in a weak position, to say the least, vis à vis their opponents.

Then there are the strategic hawks. For them, given Israel's narrow and vulnerable geographic shape and continuing Arab enmity, controlling the West Bank and Gaza is not an ideological imperative, but is driven by security considerations.