Elias Harfoush

Every citizen in the “Global Village” feels he or she has the right to a vote in the US presidential elections. The elections bear on the lives of the 8 billion people who live on this earth, their state’s decisions and their governments’ policies. So it is not surprising that the entire world is…

Let us imagine for a moment that another Lebanese official, other than Speaker Nabih Berri, who is not allied with the “resistors” and “objectionists,” stood up to announce that an understanding had been reached, through the United States, to initiate negotiations with Israel. The answer is that…

Beirut does not deserve the disaster that hit it. At one point in time, the city used to sparkle; its fate was decided by politicians who knew its worth and the weight of the responsibility placed on their shoulders to protect the capital and the country. No. Neither Beirut nor Lebanon were like…

The Lebanese government was the last to know about what happened in South Lebanon on Monday. It is said that Prime Minister Hassan Diab canceled all his meetings and appointments to follow what was happening, most probably like every other Lebanese person did, on his TV. In light of the…

Recent talks about Lebanon’s neutrality are not new, nor are they alien to the calls that many politicians have made since Lebanon’s independence from French mandate in 1943. The struggle over Lebanon’s identity and belonging has always accompanied all critical political turning points in…

Erroneous policies have a price that the people usually pay, especially when they are unfortunate enough to live under regimes and governments that manage such policies. In regimes such as this, “victories” are measured by the regime’s capacity to survive, regardless of the suffering that the…

The Lebanese cannot be blamed if they feel that they have been receiving blows and disasters from all over the place. They did not need this coronavirus mess to be certain of that. The relatively few cases of coronavirus that they've had are perhaps a less substantial problem than the major hits…