Hazem Saghieh

Israel is a country that worries its neighbors, and they are right to worry. It is the only nuclear power in the region, it does not abide by international law, and, in its wars with genocidal dimensions, Israel makes no noticeable effort to distinguish between combatants and civilians. With…

A year has gone by since the two damned days, but we have yet to hear a single serious and profound reassessment of what happened. Where did the men behind the two operations go wrong? Could they both have been averted? What is to be done now after the fact? Is a retreat that allows us to avoid…

The year 1982 might be when the national basis of Lebanese politics broke. Indeed, this basis had never been solid, and they had always been vulnerable to breaches. However, it was in 1982 that another fully-fledged political system emerged both theoretically and practically, swiftly overwhelming…

The Lebanese were perhaps turning the page on a chapter that began in 1982, following Israel’s invasion of the country and Hezbollah's emergence as an armed force. This phase (42 years) of its brief history as an independent country (less than double that number) constituted the most violent…

- Once again, humans become an ephemeral detail. Devastated civilians, mourning loved ones they have lost, homes that have been destroyed, and lives of poverty and deprivation they will face... these are all mere numbers, or scenes we watch as they unfold on our television screens. No one takes…

Today, voices in Lebanon that had been more fearful and reticent in the past are being raised to demand that Hezbollah stop waging this war that leaves civilians vulnerable to gratuitous death. This comes after all of this war’s pretexts collapsed and the theory that "the party is protecting…

Last Saturday, the British daily "The Guardian" published a piece about "Israel's prime target." The question its Jerusalem correspondent Julian Borger poses is one that has been asked by many in a variety of countries: would killing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar end the war in the Gaza Strip? Such a…

The Arab Levant presents three models for addressing Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. There is the Lebanese model, which has entailed direct engagement since the day after the war began and rejecting any political solution to end it. However, this engagement has not had a tangible impact on Israel…

Not all settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are believers. Some are motivated by practical considerations; among them are those seeking low rents, nature enthusiasts, those trying to escape the burdens of the world, and those pursuing what they consider an optimal environment for raising…

We often encounter two parties that have hostile relations or are at war, both calling their opponent by their name. Many, for example, saw the Soviet Union as a cloak that Russia hid behind and the Ottoman Empire as a cover for Türkiye, and they believed that these states enslaved entire peoples…