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Hezbollah recently released a video depicting a military facility in which vehicles loaded with missiles move across extensive, fortified, and illuminated tunnels. There had been talk about Hezbollah's tunnels before it made these unprecedented revelations. However, the matter did not receive the…

Ending a war is more difficult than deciding to wage one. The one backing down must offer a convincing story. He must offer explanations and justifications. He must compare the losses and gains and declared goals and which of them were achieved. He must say if he feels more secure after the…

The Lebanese grew weary of waiting for the "major retaliation" that Iran and Hezbollah have threatened. But it seems that this boredom didn't last long, as they soon began awaiting a strike the Israelis had claimed they would carry out. That, at least, is what the statements of their rabid…

While the regional tensions today are high, particularly since October 7 and the war on Gaza, the scene is very clear. After nearly ten months of war and the tragedies it has caused, the lines have been drawn, and there can be no more lies or wishful thinking. There is no need, today, to explain…

If I were asked to list the major intellectual breakthroughs of the last half-century, I would certainly include the revolution in our understanding of emotion. For thousands of years, it was common in Western thought to imagine that there was an eternal war between reason and our emotions. In…

Benjamin Netanyahu has closed the doors to negotiations, stirring anxiety among the Lebanese and Palestinians living on the land about their present and their future. The vast majority of them are in Gaza, where there is no longer any space for life, and Lebanese from the South, who have been…

The good news from Iran is that there isn’t going to be any change in the way the Islamic Republic has always behaved. This is to say the “ Supreme Guide” has decided to swallow his latest humiliation caused by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran and refrain from seeking “hard…

The American approach to managing the Geneva negotiations regarding the Sudanese war is bound to fail; every indication and recent development points in that direction. Success in negotiations requires adequate preparation, as well as effective communication with the parties that allows for…

The remark that Hegel made when he saw Napoleon on horseback in the German city of Jena in 1806 would become very famous. To the German philosopher, the French emperor looked like a conqueror bringing the zeitgeist (spirit of the age), as it was unleashed by the French Revolution, to Germany. Thus,…

It is a cliche that the devil is in the details. It seems that the devil in the details of the Gaza ceasefire deal poses more of a challenge than Hamas and the mediators had anticipated. At the time of writing, no agreement has been concluded, nor have there even been signs that a deal is imminent…

If we set aside the vastly disparate geographic, political, and economic scales of the two countries, we can ask the following question: How can we explain China’s relative success at breaking the shackles of ideology, allowing it to reinvent itself and turn into an economic and political power…

The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday in Chicago before the echoes of former US President and current candidate Donald Trump’s “chat” with his new billionaire “friend,” X owner Elon Musk, go quiet (will they ever?). Under ordinary circumstances, the national convention of the…