I watched the interview by Jeremy Bown, on the BBC Arabic Service, with Mohammad al Shareh, who till recently went by the nom de guerre of Al Julani. He was composed, balanced, and careful in his answers. His demeanor was not threatening (like Sadda...
Emmanuel Macron's approach to Lebanon has descended into a series of commercial scandals, notably involving maritime and gas concessions with CMA-CGM and TotalEnergies, alongside an unsettling alliance with Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated narcotraffick...
Lebanon is a failed State. It is a status that has increased in intensity since 2005 leading to a total failure of its economy in 2019, and a breakdown in governmental institutions since 2020. To limit failure to this period would be charitable towa...
A militia can harass a regular army, it can cause it serious pain, inflict specific casualties, but it cannot win a war. This logic is refuted by Hezbollah and its supporters. The destruction of Tel Aviv in 7 minutes and the takeover of the Galilee ...
When recently Pascal Suleiman was found slain and suspicions that Hezbollah operatives had killed him, using Syrian footmen, the street mob went after innocent Syrian workers. Refugees who live in their midst, work in construction, and till the orch...
One country boasts of its ancient civilization being the cradle of codified laws and justice, an oasis of culture, art, and poetry and the center of knowledge and power before all other great centers of the Old World (Athens to Rome). That country i...
There is a schizophrenic, hypocritical, and somewhat bipodal attitude amongst the failed class of Lebanese politicians, or that cast of people that calls itself as such because the word ‘class’ bestows upon it something it seriously lacks and will n...
Lebanon is at a crossroads, again. Some cynics say that there are no roads left, and lesser crosses than in the past, to even mention crossroads. Such wordplay is not mere humor but a reality in a country where sectarian divisions have reached new h...
When France surrendered to Germany in the early period of WWII, the most decorated officer of the French army Phillipe Petain, made a conscientious (though treacherous) decision to execute the Armistice Accords with the Nazis on June 22, 1940. His, ...
What Bashir Gemayel could not deliver, namely a peace treaty with Israel in 1982, and what Rafik Hariri could not offer, namely joining a bandwagon of Arab States willing to swap land for peace with Israel in the mid-1990s, Hezbollah did!
Hezboll...
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