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There may soon be peace in Lebanon

1 November 2024 5:34 pm

If the leaks and briefings are to be believed, Israel is getting ready to end its war in Lebanon. With…

Where does Lebanon go from here?

13 October 2024 10:17 pm

Israel’s overt ground intervention into Lebanon is now entering its third week.  So far, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have…

Israel was right to ignore the West

5 October 2024 9:00 am

There are sources in the Jewish tradition that warn against exultation at the downfall of one’s enemies. But I am…

Is Israel trying to drag America into a war with Iran?

28 September 2024 9:00 am

The American general David Petraeus famously asked of the invasion of Iraq: ‘Tell me how this ends.’ That’s the question…

Sky News has lost its way

28 September 2024 9:00 am

Occasionally I am told that I go too hard on the BBC. It is an understandable gripe which I sometimes…

How to evacuate a country

27 September 2024 4:28 pm

As fighting continues between Israel and Hezbollah, planning for a potential evacuation of British nationals from Lebanon has seen troops,…

Is Israel ready for a ‘new phase’ of war?

21 September 2024 4:00 pm

The toll wreaked from the events of 17 and 18 September has been extensive. According to the best estimates, more…

Iran and Hezbollah don’t want a war with Israel

26 August 2024 11:38 pm

Hezbollah’s response to the killing of senior official Fuad Shukr, when it finally came, was a more minor event than…

Israel’s strikes on Lebanon bring Jerusalem one step closer to regional dominance

26 August 2024 12:06 am

As the dust literally settles across southern Lebanon in the aftermath of the Israeli airstrikes, we are starting to see…

Can anything stop a full-scale conflict in the Middle East?

10 August 2024 9:00 am

The fact that the Middle East stands on the brink of a catastrophic war can be explained by a scene…

Israel says it’s ready for another war

6 July 2024 9:00 am

According to my phone, I’m in Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport. Except I’m not. The Israel Defence Forces have scrambled the…

Benjamin Netanyahu must decide what to do about Hezbollah

24 June 2024 7:39 pm

Tensions on Israel’s northern border are currently at their highest point since the outbreak of hostilities in October last year.…

A trail of dirty money

19 August 2023 9:00 am

In 2015, a dedicated DEA agent pursues a Mafia capo involved in a vast cocaine shipment, a Hezbollah militia leader and an elaborate Middle Eastern arms-trafficking ring

War games do something seriously unpleasant to our brains

29 October 2022 9:00 am

Not all video games are war games but those that are do something deeply unpleasant to our brains, says Sam Kriss

The mood in Lebanon is for revolution

15 August 2020 9:00 am

The mood in Lebanon is for revolution

Is it too late to save Lebanon?

25 July 2020 9:00 am

The country is collapsing

Quassem Soleimani’s terror lives on for Israelis

5 February 2020 10:54 pm

Quassem Soleimani is dead but in Israel fear of his warped legacy lives on. The Iranian general was key to…

Lebanon: the world’s best failed state

3 August 2019 9:00 am

Look down from the mountains outside Beirut and, on most days, you’ll see a grey blanket of smog choking the…

Jeremy Corbyn and the hard left are wilfully blind to the evils of Islamist Nazis

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Many people watching Jeremy Corbyn’s interview on Marr last Sunday will have been shocked by his remarks about the need…

How Lebanon is coping with more than a million Syrian refugees

14 November 2015 9:00 am

How tiny Lebanon copes with an unstoppable flow of Syrian refugees

Bizarrely, Putin is talking more sense on Syria than anyone else

26 September 2015 8:00 am

The West’s strategy on Syria is a complete shambles

Black flags and Christmas lights: a letter from Beirut

13 December 2014 9:00 am

Blue and white Christmas lights twinkle over the shops near my apartment in Beirut’s Christian quarter; pricy boutiques display elaborate…