Posted on Sun, September 18, 2016 at 17:42 pm CEST
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Lebanon’s Hatred of Israel – A Symptom of Dysfunction

Lebanon has no valid justification for its hatred towards Israel… Read more

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Anti-Semitism • Hezbollah • Jew-Hatred • Lebanon 
Posted on Fri, July 15, 2016 at 21:33 pm CEST
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Lebanon, UNIFIL Deaths, and Ireland’s Diplomatic Machinations

Failed peacekeeping: how the Irish UNIFIL troops favoured the PLO and Hizbullah… Read more

Topics: Diplomacy • History • Ireland • Israel • Lebanon • Palestine Liberation Organization • Pro-Palestinianism • Rob Harris • United Nations 
Posted on Sat, June 4, 2016 at 16:13 pm CEST
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Intelligence and Decision Making: the IDF Leaving Lebanon – a Case Study

The role of Israeli Military Intelligence in decision-making… Read more

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Israel • Israel Defense Forces • Lebanon • Palestine Liberation Organization • Security and Defense 
Posted on Thu, December 31, 2015 at 15:58 pm CET
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Qasem Soleimani’s Involvement in Lebanon

For years Lebanon had been considered the flagship of the Qods Force’s activity to promote the armed campaign against Israel… Read more

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Lebanon • Security and Defense • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, September 13, 2015 at 17:42 pm CEST
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Why Lebanon’s Sunnis Support ISIS

What is happening in Syria and Iraq is a religious war with ethnic overtones. As a microcosm of the region’s religious and ethnic conflicts, it is difficult to imagine how Lebanon can be spared… Read more

Topics: Hezbollah • Islamic State • Lebanon • Religion • Sunni Islam • Sunni-Shia Conflict 
Posted on Fri, December 12, 2014 at 18:28 pm CET
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When Did the First Lebanon War End?

A view regarding the end date of the First Lebanon War… Read more

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Israel • Lebanon • Security and Defense 
Posted on Mon, December 16, 2013 at 19:14 pm CET
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Meanwhile on Israel’s Lebanese Border

Do you want this conflict?… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Israel • Lebanon • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, September 25, 2013 at 02:00 am CEST
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Michel Sleiman, President of the Republic of Lebanon, Addresses General Assembly, 68th session, 2013

Michel Sleiman, President of Lebanon, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Lebanon • United Nations 
Posted on Tue, June 25, 2013 at 20:31 pm CEST
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Hezbollah is preparing to support the Syrian army forces to take over Aleppo

Following the victory at Al-Qusayr Hezbollah is preparing to support the Syrian army forces to take over Aleppo… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Iran • Lebanon • Religion • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sun, June 23, 2013 at 23:37 pm CEST
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The Price Hezbollah Pays for Supporting the Syrian Regime

Being drawn into the Syrian civil war forced Hezbollah to pay both a political price and a price to its image in the Arab-Muslim world… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Lebanon • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sun, June 23, 2013 at 23:36 pm CEST
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Hezbollah Support for the Syrian Regime

Hezbollah supports the Syrian regime as the civil war drags on… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Lebanon • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sun, June 23, 2013 at 23:36 pm CEST
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Hezbollah Involvement in the Syrian Civil War

For Iran and Hezbollah, the preservation of Bashar Assad’s regime is of supreme strategic importance… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Lebanon • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, January 31, 2013 at 00:25 am CET
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Why Israel Attacked A Syrian Base

Israel forces carried out a strike overnight on a convoy coming from Syria in the Lebanon-Syria border area… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Israel • Israel Defense Forces • Lebanon • Security and Defense • Syria 
Posted on Sun, January 13, 2013 at 18:43 pm CET
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Hezbollah: Portrait of a Terrorist Organization

Hezbollah has a 30-year history of terrorist activity in Lebanon, the Middle East and around the globe, directed against Israel, the Jewish people, the United States and the West, pro-Western Arab states and Hezbollah’s enemies in Lebanon… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Lebanon • Security and Defense • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, January 13, 2013 at 18:42 pm CET
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Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activity, 2000-2012

Hezbollah has actively participated in the worldwide anti-Israeli campaign of terrorism led by Iran’s Qods Force, attempting to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli diplomats and tourists… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Lebanon • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, January 13, 2013 at 18:41 pm CET
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Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activities during the 1990s

In the 1990s Hezbollah combined terrorist attacks in Israeli territory and overseas with guerilla warfare against the IDF in the Lebanese security zone and sporadic rocket fire at Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Argentina • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Lebanon • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, January 13, 2013 at 18:40 pm CET
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Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activities during the 1980s

Hezbollah’s terrorist activity during the first years of its existence focused on the United States and France, the main targets of a wave of terrorist attacks in Lebanon and elsewhere… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • France • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Kuwait • Lebanon • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam 
Posted on Wed, August 8, 2012 at 21:21 pm CEST
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Who’s Really Isolated? He Who Misunderstands Middle East Realities

One of the mantras from Israel’s supposed foreign well-wishers is that the country is now “isolated.” Sure, on the surface this makes sense… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Hamas • Hezbollah • Israel • Jordan • Lebanon • Security and Defense • Syria 
Posted on Sun, July 29, 2012 at 20:19 pm CEST
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Lebanon: Fractured Past, Bleak Present

Bill Harris is one of the world’s leading authorities on Lebanon. In this interview he discusses politics there; the possibilities of war with Israel; how Western policy let down the moderates; and the dramatic effects of the Syrian civil war on that neighboring country… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Hezbollah • History • Lebanon • Politics • Religion • Security and Defense 
Posted on Mon, June 18, 2012 at 17:39 pm CEST
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A Culture of Blame

If a woman steps outside the strict boundaries of behavior prescribed to her, she faces communal rejection, stigmatization, violent assault and even death by way of “honor killing”… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Human Rights • Lebanon 
Posted on Mon, April 9, 2012 at 20:53 pm CEST
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The Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon

In Lebanon the Muslim Brotherhood works through Al-Jama’ah al-Islamiyya, an organization established in 1964… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Hezbollah • Islamism • Jihadism • Lebanon • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Wed, February 15, 2012 at 20:19 pm CET
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The Pragmatics of Lebanon’s Politics

Lebanese society has had a remarkable ability to overcome deep-rooted sectarian and religious divides that could readily have imploded less problematic countries… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Lebanon • Politics • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Syria 
Posted on Sat, January 7, 2012 at 15:09 pm CET
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Identity Among Middle East Christians

In the course of the present unrest across the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Copts • Culture • Egypt • Human Rights • Iraq • Lebanon • Religion • Syria • The Middle East 
Posted on Wed, January 4, 2012 at 21:47 pm CET
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Sunni versus Shia: The Middle East’s New Strategic Conflict

Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • Iran • Iraq • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Lebanon • Libya War • Politics • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Syrian Revolution • The Middle East 
Posted on Sun, December 18, 2011 at 21:30 pm CET
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Coming War Threat: Terrorists Developing a Safe Haven in Egypt to Attack Israel

Do policymakers, and “experts” care what happens in the Middle East? War? Bloodshed? Repression… Continue reading

Topics: Counter-terrorism • Egypt • Israel • Lebanon • Palestinian Terrorism • Politics • Security and Defense