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Lebanon and Israel reach gas deal, but will it hold? Interview with Abbas Zalzali

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator   Lebanon and Israel have reached a deal concerning their maritime border dispute in the gas-rich Mediterranean Sea.  Israel’s current leader, Yarir Lapid, wants to get the Knesset’s approval before Israel’s elections on November 1, but there’s no guarantee that it will happen before then. The long-term life of […]

Jamal Wakim on the Lebanese election: “policies imposed on us for the past 30 years have led us to this current crisis”

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said yesterday in a televised speech, “I want the entire Lebanese nation to know that those who are calling for the disarmament of the resistance are unaware of what the southerners went through since 1948.”  Referring to […]

Israel attacks Syria putting passenger planes in peril

Israel attacks Syria putting passenger planes in peril Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Israel attacked Syria last night, beginning at 11:03 pm., and lasting until after midnight. Al Nahar, the Lebanese media, reported that one MEA commercial airplane, fully loaded with passengers, was miraculously saved from being shot down by the missiles fired by […]

Lebanon faces living without food, water, electricity, medicine and gasoline

Lebanon faces living without food, water, electricity, medicine and gasoline Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Gasoline had been subsidized by the Lebanese government, but now it will fluctuate depending on the import cost on a free market price. The government had supported merchants importing gasoline previously, as well as flour, medicine, and several basic […]

Lebanon is on the brink of social explosion and breakdown

Lebanon is on the brink of social explosion and breakdown Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Najib Mikati has received 73 votes from the Lebanese Parliament, making him the new Prime Minister elect. He stated he would not have accepted the position unless he had international support, and he agreed with President Michel Aoun to […]

The Lebanese crisis is directed against Syrian reconstruction: says Dr. Jamal Wakim

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Syrian investors have about $42 billion in Lebanese banks. The corrupt Lebanese banking system has frozen those accounts and prevented withdrawals.  The Syrian economic crisis is caused in large part by the Lebanese crisis. In the summer of 2019, the Lebanese crisis began with street protests. This was instigated […]

What’s Really Happening in Lebanon?

Excellent analysis of the protests in Lebanon by Laith Marouf: Hear me out about Lebanon; although all the demands of the protesters are legitimate, the cascade of events that triggered them is all planned meticulously. Since 2017, the Empire and its local enforcers, Apartheid Israel and Saudi Occupied Arabia, wanted the government of PM Hariri to collapse, therefore bringing down the […]
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Actualités du Grand Moyen-Orient – entretien avec Gabriel Galice

Alors que la bataille de Rakka touche à sa fin, qu’avec la perte annoncée de Mayadine l’Organisation de l’État islamique (OEI) n’est plus que l’ombre de ce qu’elle fut, nous avons souhaité obtenir les analyses de Gabriel Galice – spécialiste, entre autres, des conflits – sur les événements qui agitent la région du Levant, et les idées qui gravitent autour du concept de Grand Moyen-Orient.