Tag: Lebanon
Hezbollah: When ‘Precision’ means Deterrence
Oct 21, 2019 | News & Analysis, Middle East, Politics
Despite Israel’s wealth and military prowess, Hezbollah’s precision-missiles provide an effective deterrent to military incursions into Lebanon.
Read MoreThe War Ahead: Netanyahu’s Elections Gamble Will be Costly for Israel
Sep 6, 2019 | News & Analysis, Middle East, Politics
The consequences of Netanyahu’s gamble might come at a worse price for him than simply losing the elections.
Read MoreIs There a Plot to Depopulate Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon?
Dec 19, 2018 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Palestine, Politics
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are denied basic human rights, and many would give up their hope of returning to their homeland to escape.
Read MorePutin’s Peace Efforts Are Coming to Naught
May 24, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, US
Now that Washington and Israel have sabotaged Putin’s diplomacy, Putin’s hope is that the result will isolate Washington from Washington’s European and British vassal states rather than isolate Russia, Syria, Iran, and North Korea from the rest of the world.
Read MoreThe Syrian Crisis Escalates
May 1, 2018 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics, US
The Russian government’s inability to comprehend that peace is not on the US government’s agenda means that the crisis will continue to build until war is upon us.
Read MoreForeign Policy for Sale: Greece’s Dangerous Alliance with Israel
Feb 9, 2018 | Viewpoints, Europe, Politics
Signing off to join an Israel-led economic and military alliance in an area replete with conflict, is a terribly irresponsible move, even for politically inexperienced and opportunistic politicians.
Read MoreLebanon: Hunting for the Sheikh
Jan 4, 2018 | News & Analysis, Middle East, Politics
Although Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad has not assassinated Hezbollah’s Secretary General Sheikh Syed Hassan Nasrallah, it’s certainly not for lack of trying.
Read MoreWhat Is Really Going on in Saudi Arabia?
Nov 11, 2017 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics
If Israel had to do all the ugly deeds it wants done in the region itself, the world would see it with blinding clarity for the pariah state that it is.
Read MoreThe Unraveling of American-Russian Relations
Oct 19, 2017 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
What are the forces driving Washington’s provocation of Russia? There are three, and they comprise a vast conspiracy against life on earth.
Read MoreUpping the Ante: Hezbollah, Arms Factories and Threats
Aug 11, 2017 | News & Analysis, Middle East, Politics
Israel does not want Hezbollah to have an effective deterrent capability in the event it wages another war against the civilian population of Lebanon.
Read MoreFear and Trepidation in Tel Aviv: Is Israel Losing the Syria War?
Jul 28, 2017 | News & Analysis, Middle East, Politics
Israel’s aim has been to infiltrate southern Syria to create a buffer against Iranian, Hezbollah, and other hostile forces, but it isn’t working as hoped.
Read MoreWashington Has Been At War For 16 Years: Why?
Jun 30, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
The lack of curiosity on the part of Americans, the media, and Congress about the purpose of US wars, proven to be based entirely on lies, is extraordinary.
Read MoreIsrael’s Nuclear Man: Shimon Peres, A Brand without Substance
Oct 6, 2016 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics
Western leaders and media commentators may praise Shimon Peres as a champion of peace, but for Palestinians, he was just another Israeli war criminal.
Read MoreLebanon: The Next Country of Refugees?
Jun 24, 2016 | News & Analysis, Middle East
For all the threats of rendering Lebanon to a ‘country of refugees’ in the event of another war, Israel knows that threat would apply both ways.
Read MoreTarget ISIL: The ‘Resistance’ Will Continue
Jun 17, 2016 | News & Analysis, Middle East
Hezbollah is a well-oiled machine, and the recent killing of a top commander in Syria won’t deter its fight against ISIL.
Read MoreOn the Saudi “Terrorist” Designation for Hezbollah
Mar 22, 2016 | News & Analysis, Middle East
The true reasons why the Saud regime has designated Hezbollah as a “terrorist organization”.
Read MoreSyria 2016: The Hezbollah Indispensability
Feb 5, 2016 | Middle East, News & Analysis
Hezbollah has emerged from the quagmire of the conflict in Syria as aggressive, experienced, and indispensible as ever.
Read MoreThe November 13 Paris Attacks: Rethinking the Concept of Identity
Feb 2, 2016 | Essays, Europe, Middle East
What we can learn from the different responses to the November terrorist attacks by ISIS in Paris and Beirut.
Read More“There is Hope”: Lebanon’s Protests and the Future of the Anti-Corruption Movement
Nov 23, 2015 | Middle East, Viewpoints
For now the demonstrations are continuing and there is still limited optimism that their demands will be addressed.
Read MoreEndless Predictions of the Syrian Regime’s Collapse—Why Hasn’t It Happened?
Jul 6, 2015 | Middle East, News & Analysis
An Interview with Kamal Alam, a former advisor on Syrian affairs to the UK’s Chief of Defence Staff
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