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Lebanon's Currency Crisis Risks Becoming Iran's Most Effective Weapon
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (391+ words) The danger facing Lebanon today is not merely military escalation or political paralysis. It is the deliberate weaponisation of economic collapse. Far more effective, from the group's perspective, would be the engineering of financial chaos. Today, that vulnerability remains acute....
Lebanon Needs a Peace Dividend
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (330+ words) Today, however, Lebanon finds itself approaching a historic turning point. Many Lebanese increasingly understand that the country no longer has the luxury of permanent confrontation. A generation exhausted by war, economic humiliation and emigration is beginning to see a peace…...
Why peace talks with Israel pose a threat to Hezbollah
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (332+ words) The fact that Israel withdrew on May 25, 2000 " "without even a slap on anyone's face," as it was then described " was thanks to the efforts of Ranstorp and another Swedish researcher, Magnus Norell. The withdrawal was coordinated through indirect talks between…...
Do you want Lebanon to be a safe country for your grandson Alexander?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (477+ words) Deep down, Lebanon cannot go to the trilateral summit you want it to attend. Such a meeting would ignite Lebanon'and the region'rather than lay the groundwork for peace. Our problem with Israel cannot be resolved in the manner you propose,…...
Lebanon Cannot Afford Saudi Arabia's Luxury of Delay
1+ week, 3+ day ago (515+ words) For Saudi Arabia, this may be a rational calculation. For Lebanon, it would be a fatal illusion. Saudi Arabia can afford ambiguity. Lebanon cannot. This is the central distinction that too many Lebanese still refuse to face: Saudi Arabia may…...
You say, "Did we hand the enemy a pretext?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (163+ words) What is this thing you call a "pretext," my friend? Have you truly seen into the truth of what happened on October 8, 2023? That day was no pretext. It was an open resumption of a war halted seventeen years before. What…...
Lebanon at a Strategic Crossroads: The Risks of Replaying 1983
2+ week, 3+ day ago (192+ words) This dynamic has translated into calls for caution, internal dialogue, and sequencing'positions articulated through Lebanese intermediaries and political figures. While such arguments are framed in terms of prudence, they risk reproducing the very paralysis that has historically undermined Lebanon's ability…...
In Lebanon, heavy losses for Hezbollah
3+ week, 13+ hour ago (136+ words) Based on a non-exhaustive tally compiled from death notices published on social media by accounts affiliated with the party or with localities in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley'where the Shiite movement is strongly established'Le Monde identified 494 Hezbollah fighters killed…...
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1+ mon, 1+ week ago (15+ words) Hardliners pile on "traitor" Zarif, urge his arrest over call for end of war'middleeasttransparent. com...
Clock ticks down as leaders meet again with no breakthrough in sight
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (787+ words) As Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erh'rman and Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulides prepare to meet for the fifth time since October 2025, expectations remain deliberately low. Nearly nine years after the collapse of talks at Crans-Montana talks, the Cyprus question continues…...