Assad On Top Of The World
Five years ago, Rafik al-Hariri - the billionaire Lebanese businessman-turned-politician who was prime minister on and off until September 2004 when he joined the opposition to Syria - was murder...
Cedar Revolution
Why Western Media Got Lebanon’s Elections So Wrong
The biggest failure in Lebanon’s election was not just General Michel Aoun. Sharing first place with him was a coterie of Western journalists and analysts who, in the run-up to the election...
Op-eds
The Nasrallah Speech: Hezbollah Ruled, the West is Fooled
In the next days a major battle in the War of Ideas will be unfolding worldwide and particularly through the international media. We are now witnessing a massive campaign by Hezbollah's stra...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Billion Petrodollars
A few weeks ago, articles published around the world reported that Hezbollah is undergoing two major changes. Both portend greater violence from the Iranian-sponsored global terrorist network.
The first change is a shift in leadership responsibilities. A report published initially in the Saudi owned Sharq al Awsat said the office of Ayatollah Khomenei appointed deputy secretary general Sheikh Naim Qassim as the new supreme commander of Hezbollah forces and the personal representative of the Ayatollah in Lebanon. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, according to this report remains as secretary general of the organization. Sources said this change in control and command is because of "differences in opinions" between Narsrallah and Qassim.
Op-eds
Gaza: A Joint Iran-Syria Production
The latest dramatic military and terror events in Gaza and Lebanon can be viewed from a regional geopolitical perspective: A Syro-Iranian axis offensive on its (their) primarily western front str...
Op-eds
Syro-Iranian Massacre of Politicians in Lebanon
With the assassination of Lebanese MP Jebran Tueni in December 2006, months after the murder of political leaders George Hawi and Samir Qassir during the summer, the Syro-Iranian terror war room...
Op-eds
Hezbollah Offensive in Lebanon: Days One, Two, and Three
DAY ONE After serious warnings delivered by Hezbollah secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah since early November, the generalized offensive to bring down the Cedars Revol...
Op-eds
Crushing a Flower of the Cedar Revolution
The assassination of Lebanese Christian politician Pierre Gemayel this Tuesday has revealed that the Tehran-Damascus axis remains busy with terror activities across the Fertile Crescent....
Op-eds
The Assassination of Pierre Gemayel
After his son was shot pointblank Tuesday in Beirut, former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel called on his countrymen “to contemplate the meaning of this martyrdom and how to protect this co...
Op-eds
Response to the Terrorist Assassination of Pierre Gemayel
The assassination of Minister Pierre Gemayel in Beirut is another war crime against the democratically elected Government and Parliament of Lebanon, and another strike in the Terror War waged by...
Op-eds
State of Jihad
QUESTION: What has changed about "Future Jihad" since the book first appeared? Answer: Between November 2005 and November 2006, very important developments have been taking place on the...
Op-eds
Crowning of Nasrallah? – Annan’s Diplomacy Harms the Cause of Peace
BRACE YOURSELF. In the United Nations-brokered farce known as the "cessation of hostilities in Lebanon," we may now be heading for the moment in which Secretary General Kofi Annan jets to Beirut...
Op-eds
Turtle Bay Does Beirut
Brace yourself. In the United Nations-brokered farce known as the “cessation of hostilities in Lebanon,” we may now be heading for the moment in which Secretary-General Kofi Annan jet...
Op-eds
Terrorists Win — What Next?
The Second Battle of the Litani (following our Civil War practice of naming engagements after the strategically significant waterways along which they are fought) is over. With a ceasefire called...
Op-eds
Who Wins?
In the wake of Friday night's vote on a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations on the crisis in the Middle East, are there any winners in the thirty-some days' war? National Review...
Op-eds
If Turtle Bay Had a Moral Compass…
It's happy hour at the United Nations. After four weeks of Hezbollah-provoked war in Israel and Lebanon, accompanied by much diplomatic hand-wringing, the U.N. Security Council met Friday ev...
Op-eds
Tehran & Damascus Move to Lebanon
Lebanon-born Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Author of the recent book Future Jihad, he was also one of the architects of 2004's United Nati...
Op-eds
The Limits Of Lebanon’s “Democracy”
In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President George W. Bush thrice described Lebanon's government as “democratic” and pledged that “we will stand with the democratic...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Iranian War in Lebanon
When Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of Hezbollah held his press conference to declare his new victory over his enemy, Israel, he was triggering –probably without knowing- a new...
Op-eds
National Interests
Start with what's best for Lebanon. For years, Lebanon was occupied by Syria for the benefit of Syria. The Cedar Revolution forced Syrian troops to depart but as former Secretary of State Ma...