Two crimes: the evidence from one seems to indicate that it had been the work of an intelligence service (Israel's Mossad), and the other seems like it had been perpetrated by an organized crime ring, but the evidence shows signs that it was political. We have not seen the circumstances and details…

The Iranian electorate’s refusal to obey the authorities has undercut the regime’s legitimacy. By abstaining in such large numbers, the electorate has deprived the authorities of the popular legitimacy they desperately need. Regardless of whether we accept the official turnout rates or the…

We are back at the hypothetical press conference held by a senior US official after the conclusion of the American National Security Council meeting in which the US administration has announced that the last remaining US troops were pulled out of Iraq. In response to a journalist's question,…

If, hypothetically, an American National Security Council meeting were to end with a high-ranking American spokesperson announcing that “earlier today, the last American soldier was evacuated from Iraq as part of the US withdrawal from the global coalition against terrorism. The president had…

From Sicily to Lebanon, thoughts of the tales about the organized crime group or the Sicilian mafia have been brimming in the minds of the Lebanese as they followed developments in their country like spectators from the end of the civil war to the present, i.e., since the warlords of that conflict…

More than a hundred years ago, Greater Lebanon had its premature birth. It was a difficult birth, and was completed by the 1943 formula, which has nurtured its natural and atypical growth up to this moment, to the extent that whoever took charge of it, i.e. its political class, grew old, but the…

Israeli wartime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaped over every rule of engagement. His attacks went beyond the southern and northern borders of the Litani River, reaching the southern suburbs of Beirut. The strike that saw Hamas suffer its first security breach since October 7th occurred…

Tehran's retaliation for the assassination of its senior “military advisor” in Syria, Quds Force Brigadier General Razi Mousavi, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike near Damascus, will probably not be any more forceful than its retaliation for the assassination of the former Quds Force Commander…

We go back to the beginning, to before 1982, that is, to the open war across the borders between Lebanon and occupied Palestine, for a complete review of an experience that all Lebanese people, especially southerners, have lived since the launch of the operations of the Palestinian resistance…

An audio recording attributed to late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughnieh, who was assassinated by Israel in a Damascus suburb in 2008, was recently leaked. It differs from all the previous content that was released by the military media. Typically, we do not hear him speak for more…