Hanna Saleh

The Washington summit between President Donald Trump and President Joseph Aoun reaffirmed Lebanon’s path toward independence after decades of occupation and subordination to an axis of destruction that exacted a staggering toll: mass killing, systematic devastation on the scale of more than one…

Every path toward restoring a capable and just state, one that protects its citizens and exerts absolute, unshared sovereignty, runs directly through the state's monopoly on arms and violence. The foundation for this remains the disarmament of Hezbollah and all illegal weapons, alongside the…

The American-Iranian memorandum of understanding and the "gifts" it presented the Iranian regime, have relieved the Resistance Axis. There was nothing contrived about it. It looked rather like a project for "regional peace" between the United States and its allies, on the one hand, and Iran and its…

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,…