Helping Iran fail in Iraq
Hours after the failed Nov. 7 assassination attempt on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi, pro-Iran militias in Iraq claimed responsibility but denied that Tehran had ordered the attack. Not only...
Michel Suleiman
Lebanon’s Army doesn’t deserve aid unless it is reformed
For the US to pretend that the Lebanese army is worth bankrolling, but not the rest of the Lebanese bureaucracy, is intellectual laziness.
Op-eds
Challenges Ahead for Lebanon’s Next Prime Minister
On March 22, the Hezbollah-dominated government of Lebanon collapsed after its Prime Minister, Najib Miqati, resigned. Following consultations with members of parliament, President Michel Suleima...
Policy Briefs
‘EU to Mull Listing Hezbollah as Terror Group’
A discussion is under way within the EU about possibly listing Hezbollah as a terrorist group, Austria’s Foreign Ministry informed The Jerusalem Post...
Op-eds
Assad’s Ally Arrested
In Beirut last week, former Lebanese MP and cabinet member Michel Sa...
Op-eds
Slain Syrian Official Supported al Qaeda in Iraq
On July 18, a bomb killed at least three top officials from Bashar al Assad's crumbling regime. Among them was Assef Shawkat, the deputy defense minister and former head of Syrian military i...
Op-eds
Blowback in Syria
On Wednesday, July 18, a bomb killed at least three top officials from Bashar al Assad’s crumbling regime. Among them was Assef Shawkat, the deputy defense minister and former head of Syria...
Op-eds
The Lebanese Elections and Hezbollah’s Agenda
On Sunday, June 7, Lebanon will go to the polls to elect a new parliament. News reports and analyses are abuzz with the possibility of the emergence of a new parliamentary majority comprised of a...
Congressional Testimonies
Countering Syria’s Lebanese Power Play
Pity poor Lebanon. Earlier this month, the murderous regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad imposed a government in Beirut dominated by the terrorist group, Hezbollah -- which, as it happens,...
Op-eds
Hezb’allah Takes Control in Lebanon
After few days of discussions in Doha, Qatar, the Lebanese Government of Fuad Seniora collapsed under pressures by the Hezbollah led opposition. An agreement, fully in favor of Hezbollah was sign...
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
Expected and Undisturbed Hezbollah Coup
The Lebanese government last week tried to put a stop to Hezbollah's blatant takeover of the country. Authorities outlawed Hezbollah's illegal parallel telecom network and fired the air...
Op-eds
The United States, France, and Their Allies Cannot Allow Terror Group Hezbollah to Deny Justice
On Wednesday , Hezbollah brought down Lebanon’s democratic government. The group withdrew its ministers from the cabinet, crumbling the unity government in an impeccably-timed constitutiona...
Op-eds
Prosecute Hezbollah
In the coming weeks, the United Nations will indict the killers of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in its first-ever tribunal to try terrorists. As the international prosecutors of the Secur...
Op-eds
Look At Who Holds The South Lebanon Trigger
On the eve of last Friday’s mini-Arab summit in Lebanon, the United States quietly, but noticeably, renewed a 2007 Executive Order designating parties deemed to be undermining Lebanese sove...
Op-eds
The Islamic Revolution Is Still Alive
The recent tension in South Lebanon, choreographed by Hezbollah against UNIFIL under the guise of spontaneous protests by villagers, has been used by the party to reassert its equation of “...
Op-eds
Assad’s Trap in Tripoli
To follow up on my previous post, read Michael Young's entire...
Op-eds
Assad’s Reminder
NOW's editorial this morning on the terrorist bombing in Tripoli is worth quoting at length:...
Op-eds
TAI: Hezbollah’s Dangerous Gamble
Introduction This past May saw Hezbollah's second coup attempt in as many years. The first was after the 2006 war, when Hezbollah took to the streets with the goal of bringing...
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...