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Lebanon and the Middle East: Between Irrationality and Paradox

Michel Touma, 27/10 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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When irrationality and reckless behavior come to define the actions of a powerful political faction, it doesn’t take long before red lines are dangerously breached. As a result, serious threats hang over the lives of populations directly exposed to the faction’s erratic excesses. This is exactly what we are witnessing today among several of ...

Netanyahu Asserts Israeli Control Over Gaza Security as Egypt Joins Hostage Recovery Effort

This is Beirut, 26/10 17:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel would decide for itself when to strike its foes and which countries could join an international security force in Gaza, as Egyptian recovery crews arrived. The Egyptian convoy, captured on camera by AFP reporters in Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip, included heavy ...

'Disarmament:' The Challenge of Peace

Sana Richa Choucair, 26/10 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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In this final week of October, the Disarmament Week set by the United Nations resonates with new urgency. On one front, Washington has issued an ultimatum to Hamas to disarm under Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. On another, the Lebanese government is under US pressure to disarm Hezbollah, a key Iranian proxy in the region. Tehran remains ...

Gaza Security: Potential Players in the New Peacekeeping Effort

This is Beirut, 24/10 10:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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As the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s proposed plan moves forward, discussions are intensifying over the possible deployment of an international security force in Gaza, intended to take over from Hamas. The initiative’s first step involves disarming the Islamist movement, a highly sensitive task amid a fragile ceasefire and mutual ...

Trump’s Gaza Plan: Is Erdogan the Other Big Winner?

Marie de La Roche Saint-André, 24/10 09:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Long sidelined by the United States on Gaza and in wider regional affairs, Turkey is staging a forceful comeback, driven both by the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Gaza agreement brokered by US President Donald Trump. Ankara has played a pivotal role as intermediary between Hamas and Washington, helping to persuade the ...

Flights Over a Nest of Fools!

Marc Saikali, 23/10 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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More than half of Ici Beyrouth and This is Beirut’s audience lives between France, North America and Africa. Those of you reading from these far-off lands are lucky enough not to be, like us, lulled from dawn to dusk by the relentless hum of drones. Yes, they are back. And this time, they are flying even lower. Beirutis have gone all out, ...

Hamas: A Beheaded Organization Still Standing

Paul Guillot, 22/10 18:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Is the terrorist group Hamas still capable of inflicting damage on the state of Israel? An investigation by American outlet NBC suggests that it is. Despite being severely weakened after two years of open war, the Islamist movement is believed to still have around 20,000 fighters, hundreds of rockets – including some with long-range ...

U.S. Pushes Plan to Disarm Hamas and Rebuild Gaza

This is Beirut, 22/10 13:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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US Vice President JD Vance warned Wednesday of the tough task ahead in disarming Hamas and building a peaceful future for Gaza, as Washington sought to reassure its ally Israel over the next steps in its ambitious ceasefire deal. Vance met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the second day of a trip to Israel, part of a diplomatic blitz in ...

Israeli Military Says Remains of Two More Hostages Returned from Gaza Identified

This is Beirut, 22/10 09:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israel's army said Wednesday that the remains of two more hostages returned the day before from Gaza have been identified as those of Aryeh Zalmanovich and Master Sergeant Tamir Adar. Zalmanovich, 85 at the time of his death, was abducted from his home in kibbutz Nir Oz and killed in captivity on November 17, 2023, the Israeli military said in a ...

JD Vance Voices ‘Great Optimism' for Gaza Truce on Israel Visit

This is Beirut, 22/10 08:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US Vice President JD Vance expressed "great optimism" that the Gaza truce would hold, ahead of a meeting Wednesday in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Vance is in Israel to shore up support for the US-brokered ceasefire and post-war reconstruction plans. Despite concerns in Israel that Hamas has seized on the pause to ...

Israel Says Received Two Gaza Hostage Bodies from Red Cross

This is Beirut, 21/10 22:37 - Reading : less than a minute

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Israel said its security forces in the Gaza Strip received the remains of two hostages from the Red Cross on Tuesday, returned as part of a US-brokered ceasefire deal. "Israel has received, through the Red Cross, the coffins of two hostages who were killed, which were handed over to an [Israeli military] and Shin Bet force inside the Gaza ...

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