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Category Archives: Lebanon
Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
In 1984, a sixteen-year-old boy walked into a firefight in Tripoli, Lebanon. Bernard Haykel (b. 1968) survived by luck. His parents, a French-Lebanese surgeon raised in Guadeloupe and an American mother of Polish descent, had come to Lebanon on their … Continue reading
The Matti Friedman Voice
Matti Friedman (b. 1977) is a Canadian-Israeli journalist, author, and essayist who writes about war, memory, identity, and the construction of public narrative in the modern Middle East. He works at the meeting point of foreign correspondence, literary nonfiction, and … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For The Leaders Of Lebanon
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full damage-control and repositioning speed in the Grand Serail, the Presidential Palace (still vacant but with heavy influence), the Parliament Speaker’s office, and the quiet back-channels with Riyadh, Doha, Washington, and Paris right … Continue reading
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Will Israel Humiliate Hezbollah Into Submission? (9-22-24)
02:00 Israeli incursion into Lebanon ‘will drag US, Iraq into war’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhbyKgJrrBU10:15 Israel-Hezbollah retaliations: ‘It could be war’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugaCRZp9FC017:00 Dumb media tropes: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15750228:30 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid41:00 Fahad joins (subpar audio for 25 minutes) 1:06:00 Dooovid returns, https://x.com/RebDoooovid1:08:00 Dooovid is anti-Zionist … Continue reading
Decoding Israel’s Coming War With Hezbollah (6-20-24)
01:00 Caitlin Clark Conundrum, https://www.takimag.com/article/34053/08:00 Col Douglas Macgregor: Israel Prepares for All Out War in Lebanon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXD8t7gYpTo17:30 Turkey invades Cyprus with Russia’s blessing if Israel attacks Hezbollah28:00 Is Israel Committing Genocide? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15536541:00 Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917, … Continue reading
NYT: ‘The Regional War No One Wanted Is Here. How Wide Will It Get?’
This New York Times headline is false. Plenty of people want a wider war in the Middle East. Hamas launched the Oct. 7 attacks to encourage a wider war. Parts of Hezbollah, and parts the governments of Iran and Israel … Continue reading
Thousands Feared Dead In Lebanon Explosion
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