Hanna Saleh

Wars end at the negotiating table, and the current US-Iran conflict will be no exception. Despite the delay in signing the “memorandum of understanding” between the two countries, a deal that President Donald Trump has described as “great” and “wonderful,” while Tehran insists it has imposed its…

The new era, symbolized by President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, arrived with an agenda unlike anything Lebanon has known for more than a quarter of a century. The era of the catastrophic “people, army, and resistance” trilogy has ended. The Iranian regime, through its local proxy,…

In his first televised interview after the July 2006 war, Hassan Nasrallah was asked: “If time could be turned back, would you change what happened at Khallat Warda?” “Certainly not. We never thought that our enemy would go to war over two soldiers,” he replied. Shocked by the devastation caused by…

At the moment Hamas launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, Qassam Brigades Commander Mohammed Deif called on “the Palestinian youth in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and inside Israel to rise up... Whoever has a rifle should bring it out; its time has come.” Deif also urged the Arab and Islamic nations…

With each passing day, the depth of Lebanon’s predicament becomes clearer. Israel is nibbling away at territory after uprooting and displacing its entire population, while Iran, through the Quds Force, is meddling in the country and remains intent on eroding Lebanese sovereignty and decision-making…

Yasser Arafat once said that he would accept the liberation of even a single inch of Palestinian land. In response, Hassan Nasrallah “asked:” Isn’t there a Khalid al-Islambuli among the Palestinian? Islambuli, of course, was the terrorist who assassinated President Anwar Sadat and whom the mullah…

“We will not allow the country to be dragged into new adventures. We will take every necessary measure to apprehend the perpetrators and protect the Lebanese,” Prime Minister Nawaf Salam stressed at dawn on Monday in response to Hezbollah dragging Lebanon into a new “support war.” This time,…

As MP Hussein al-Hajj Hassan declared that “we have nothing to offer or to discuss north of the Litani River,” thereby reiterating Hezbollah’s insistence on its arms and “resistance,” in open defiance of the government’s decision to limit weapons throughout Lebanon to state forces, the Israeli…

The collapse of a dilapidated building in Tripoli on the 24th of January was a deeply revealing, harrowing tragedy. It crumbled over its residents, who chose to remain in their homes because the alternative was life on the streets after those supposed to protect them neglected their most basic duty…

Former minister and international financial expert Adel Afiouni says that “changing the system and reform from within, working with elements of the ruling class and to make gradual progress in the hope of saving the country, is a theory that has failed a thousand times.” This assessment by a…