Rajeh Khoury

Rajeh Khoury

Putin and Rebuilding Russia through Annexation

It is too early to say we are seeing the beginning of World War III, of an international catastrophe whose consequences no one can foresee, or that the current crisis will end in the way that Vladimir Putin successfully gobbled up Crimea in August 2014 after the sanctions imposed by Barack Obama…

Lebanon is Not a Platform for Iranian Missiles

Last Wednesday, during the mass service on Saint Maroun's Day attended by most Lebanese leaders, Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi looked into the eyes of President Michel Aoun and said, with an assuaging tone, that, “We are struggling together so that Lebanon does not continue to be a…

Lebanon: An Arab Icon or a Houthi Iteration?

Against the backdrop of the Arab Consultative Ministerial Council, what message will Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib deliver Saturday, to his Kuwaiti counterpart, Dr. Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah? What will be the response to the Arab-Gulf-international message which Dr. Al-Sabah…

Lebanon for Oil, Monsieur Macron?

Throughout six rounds of nuclear talks in Vienna between the United States and Iran, the French seemed the most eager to reach an agreement that would restore matters to their ordinary course. This would allow French companies and interests to benefit again from Iranian contracts, which they had…

Israel’s Spies in Iran

The statements issued by former Israeli intelligence chief Yossi Cohen a few days ago were astounding and bewildering, as he revealed, in details, how Israel stole the Iranian nuclear archives on January 31, 2018, how it carried out explosive and sabotage attacks against the Iranian Natanz nuclear…

Kuwait Remains a Geniune Window for Friendship

The late Kuwait Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s absence will always remain a source of deep sadness. Rather, it will remain a loss of wisdom, vision, and a deep sense for human sublimity in the region and many of the countries in conflict worldwide, which need his approach to…

A Rescue Government or a Lebanese Somalia?

Lebanon was still drowning in the disaster of the explosion that destroyed the port and half of the capital Beirut, when Prime Minister designate Mustafa Adib, tasked with forming the new government, went to Baabda to meet with President Michel Aoun and discuss his delicate mission. However, it…

Dotting the I’s in the Hariri Assassination Verdict

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), which issued its verdict on Tuesday in the assassination of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, was not politicized like the Nuremburg trials of November 1945. Therefore, its verdict, which avoided politics directly, was very professional and refuted…

Destroying Lebanon’s Kidnapped Heart!

It was back on February 16, 2016, when Hassan Nasrallah, attempting to strike fear in Israel during a speech on “an undefeatable resistance”, declared that a few of his rockets could strike ammonium nitrate stockpiles at Haifa port. He said that the attack would produce a nuclear-like bomb and…

Coronavirus and the Return to the 'Cave'

In less than two weeks, humankind and the planet began to seem weaker than the cobwebs of an anonymous spider that cannot be seen by the naked eye. It is the Coronavirus epidemic, which seems that it will likely change the rules governing relationships between both states and people and between…