Al-Manar | November 2, 2019 Republican and Democrat US Congress members, have asked social media network Twitter to suspend all accounts affiliated with Hezbollah and Hamas, setting November 1rst as a deadline for the action. The US Congress members rejected distinguishing between military and the political wings of the organizations they classify as terrorist, stressing […]
By Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge – 11/02/2019 Amid recent statements by both Iranian and Hezbollah leaders accusing the United States of hijacking the massive anti-corruption protests which have gridlocked Lebanon for over the past two weeks, the White House has made the dramatic and unexpected move of freezing US military aid to the Lebanese Army. The […]
By Ghassan Kadi | The Saker Blog | October 31, 2019 Following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, Lebanon looked like it had totally lost its independence and ability of self-determination. Later on, and with Israeli boots still on Lebanese ground, the Lebanese government was coerced to reach the 17th of May (1983) […]
Tires are burning, smoke is rising towards the sky. It is October, the 18th day of the month, the capital city of Lebanon, in the past known as the “Paris of the East”, is covered in smoke.
For years I was warning that the country governed by corrupt, indifferent elites, could not hold together indefinitely.
Lebanon is facing a major challenge this week. How it fares depends on a multitude of factors and forces, all pushing up against each other at once – anyone of which could help make or break the country’s near-term future.
By Marwa Haidar| Al-Manar | October 25, 2019 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah urged the resistance supporters on Friday to leave the streets, noting that a dangerous scheme aimed at targeting Lebanon on the political level has being prepared. In a televised address to the Lebanese people on the latest local developments, Sayyed Nasrallah […]
By Ghassan Kadi | The Saker Blog | October 22, 2019 Hezbollah is facing a new challenge, and this time it is not a military one, but rather political. Perhaps few countries need peaceful “popular revolutions” more than Lebanon does. In my simplistic way of thinking, Lebanon should actually be on the top of the […]
Al-Manar | October 22, 2019 Hezbollah stressed on Monday it has no relation with the motorcade which threatened protests in Beirut Downtown and was thwarted by Lebanese Army. In a statement, Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office firmly denied involvement in the motorcade. “The Media Relation would like to affirm that Hezbollah definitely has no relation with […]
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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