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Lebanon’s Hatred of Israel – A Symptom of Dysfunction

Lebanon has no valid justification for its hatred towards Israel… Read more

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Lebanon, UNIFIL Deaths, and Ireland’s Diplomatic Machinations

Failed peacekeeping: how the Irish UNIFIL troops favoured the PLO and Hizbullah… Read more

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Qasem Soleimani’s Involvement in Lebanon

For years Lebanon had been considered the flagship of the Qods Force’s activity to promote the armed campaign against Israel… Read more

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Why Lebanon’s Sunnis Support ISIS

What is happening in Syria and Iraq is a religious war with ethnic overtones. As a microcosm of the region’s religious and ethnic conflicts, it is difficult to imagine how Lebanon can be spared… Read more

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When Did the First Lebanon War End?

A view regarding the end date of the First Lebanon War… Read more

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Meanwhile on Israel’s Lebanese Border

Do you want this conflict?… Continue reading

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Michel Sleiman, President of the Republic of Lebanon, Addresses General Assembly, 68th session, 2013

Michel Sleiman, President of Lebanon, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

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Yusuf al-Qaradawi Calls on Muslims to Support the Rebels in Syria

Al-Qaradawi’s remarks reflect the deepening Sunni-Shi’ite schism in the Middle East… Continue reading

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Hezbollah is preparing to support the Syrian army forces to take over Aleppo

Following the victory at Al-Qusayr Hezbollah is preparing to support the Syrian army forces to take over Aleppo… Continue reading

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The Price Hezbollah Pays for Supporting the Syrian Regime

Being drawn into the Syrian civil war forced Hezbollah to pay both a political price and a price to its image in the Arab-Muslim world… Continue reading

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Hezbollah Support for the Syrian Regime

Hezbollah supports the Syrian regime as the civil war drags on… Continue reading

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Hezbollah Involvement in the Syrian Civil War

For Iran and Hezbollah, the preservation of Bashar Assad’s regime is of supreme strategic importance… Continue reading

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What the West is Doing Wrong While Facing Islamist Intimidation

Islamists will intimidate anyone who let them intimidate… Continue reading

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Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ike

The real lessons of 1956… Continue reading

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Why Israel Attacked A Syrian Base

Israel forces carried out a strike overnight on a convoy coming from Syria in the Lebanon-Syria border area… Continue reading

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Hezbollah: Portrait of a Terrorist Organization

Hezbollah has a 30-year history of terrorist activity in Lebanon, the Middle East and around the globe, directed against Israel, the Jewish people, the United States and the West, pro-Western Arab states and Hezbollah’s enemies in Lebanon… Continue reading

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Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activity, 2000-2012

Hezbollah has actively participated in the worldwide anti-Israeli campaign of terrorism led by Iran’s Qods Force, attempting to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli diplomats and tourists… Continue reading

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Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activities during the 1990s

In the 1990s Hezbollah combined terrorist attacks in Israeli territory and overseas with guerilla warfare against the IDF in the Lebanese security zone and sporadic rocket fire at Israel… Continue reading

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Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activities during the 1980s

Hezbollah’s terrorist activity during the first years of its existence focused on the United States and France, the main targets of a wave of terrorist attacks in Lebanon and elsewhere… Continue reading

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The Sunni-Shia Conflict Will Be the Major Feature of Middle East Politics for Decades

We are not just talking here about theological differences but a battle between individual leaders, organizations, and states for power and primacy… Continue reading

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Who’s Really Isolated? He Who Misunderstands Middle East Realities

One of the mantras from Israel’s supposed foreign well-wishers is that the country is now “isolated.” Sure, on the surface this makes sense… Continue reading

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Lebanon: Fractured Past, Bleak Present

Bill Harris is one of the world’s leading authorities on Lebanon. In this interview he discusses politics there; the possibilities of war with Israel; how Western policy let down the moderates; and the dramatic effects of the Syrian civil war on that neighboring country… Continue reading

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A Culture of Blame

If a woman steps outside the strict boundaries of behavior prescribed to her, she faces communal rejection, stigmatization, violent assault and even death by way of “honor killing”… Continue reading

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The Obama Government Backs the Atrocity-Producing Forces So How Will it Stop Atrocities?

How can one write satire when the Obama Administration has created an Atrocities Prevention Board to prevent mass murder and genocide at the same time as it has been largely supporting the forces most likely to commit mass murder and genocide… Continue reading