Étiqueté : Hezbollah

Memo to Israel: Lebanon is no longer Hezbollah, Gaza is no longer Hamas 0

Memo to Israel: Lebanon is no longer Hezbollah, Gaza is no longer Hamas

Israeli public relations efforts to turn attention away from inconvenient realities and to distract public opinion rest in large part on promoting simplified, dumbed-down messages. Those can be easily parroted by complicit media outlets, think tanks, pundits, as well as by some journalists who prefer the sensationalism of « Iranian mullahs », « Hezbollah plots » and « Hamas terrorists »…

Prognosis: What’s next for Hezbollah in Syria? 0

Prognosis: What’s next for Hezbollah in Syria?

Beirut, Lebanon – Safa’a Smeen sits propped between a Quran, some lurid decorations and her son’s grave. « Of course I agreed », she says, when asked about her son’s request to fight for Hezbollah in Syria, where the Lebanese political party and militia helped turn the conflict’s tide in favour of the government of President Bashar al-Assad.…

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Where attain Lebanon’s Christians stand on Hezbollah?

One of the remarkable aspects of the latest commotion in Lebanon – the now suspended « Riyad resignation » of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri – was the national unity displayed. « Let no one think that we will be a vehicle for a civil war, and let no one think that we may even consider aligning ourselves with…