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Orient Tendencies

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That’s why Samir Geagea has betrayed the Christians

Beirut (Lebanon) | 20 May 2013
That’s why Samir Geagea has betrayed the Christians
By Pierre Khalaf
As soon as the coordinator of President Barak Obama for the Middle East, Philip Gordon, he had left Beirut, the results of his visit appeared on the Lebanese political scene. The Lebanese Forces have suddenly renounced all their commitments and turned against the orthodox electoral project, breaking Christian unanimity.
Samir Geagea was commissioned by the Americans to prevent recovery by Christians of their rights, (...)

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Syria destroys the Israeli domination illusions

Beirut (Lebanon) | 14 May 2013
Syria destroys the Israeli domination illusions
By Ghaleb Kandil
Israeli think tanks thought that the events in Syria have imposed changes in favor of Israel. Zionist leaders have imagined having eliminated the results of Resistance victories in Lebanon and Palestine, which imposed new strategic deterrent equations, especially since the defeat of Israel in July 2006.
Based on this evaluation, the Israeli services were involved in the war against Syria by executing sabotage operations (...)

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The masks fall: Israel and terrorists fighting in the same trench

Beirut (Lebanon) | 6 May 2013
The masks fall: Israel and terrorists fighting in the same trench
By Pierre Khalaf
The masks have fallen in Syria. The Israeli army has directly entered the battle alongside terrorist groups after they had failed in the mission assigned to them by the alliance composed of NATO, the Gulf monarchies and Israel, under the leadership of United States.
Israeli aircraft bombed violently Sunday at dawn, several civilians and military objectives, leaving dozens dead. Russian TV Russia Today has (...)

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The Syrian Arab Army advances in Idleb, Homs and Daraa

Beirut (Lebanon) | 15 April 2013
The Syrian Arab Army advances in Idleb, Homs and Daraa
By Pierre Khalaf
In Idleb, Homs and Daraa, the Syrian Arab Army regained the initiative, inflicting heavy losses to terrorists of Al-Qaeda and other groups created, funded, trained and armed by NATO, the United States and its Arab auxiliaries,.
The latest achievements of the Syrian army are from Saturday and Sunday, when she managed to break the six-month blockade around two military camps in the province of Idleb (northwest). "For (...)

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The resignation of Mikati and the US escalation plan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 25 March 2013
The resignation of Mikati and the US escalation plan
By Ghaleb Kandil
The resignation of Najib Mikati is a Lebanese copy of the American escalation plan in the region, whose was launched by President Barack Obama during his visit to Israel. In Lebanon, the resignation was preceded by many political indices. It opens the door to a new phase of political and securitry confrontation, which is part of the global war waged against the Syrian national state, whose players want to turn Lebanon (...)

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The American plan of the last minute

Beirut (Lebanon) | 18 March 2013
While ensuring to perform a simple exercise that was planned long time ago, Moscow has responded to the announcing from Paris and London to send weapons to Syria, by sending a naval fleet on site. Any Franco-British intervention, direct or indirect, would lead to an escalation and confrontation with Russia. The American plan of the last minute
By Ghaleb Kandil
The painful truth that the secretary of state John Kerry finally accepted is that any solution in Syria is a defeat for the (...)

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An American plan to destabilize the region, from Irak to Lebanon, including Syria and Jordan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 11 March 2013
An American plan to destabilize the region, from Irak to Lebanon, including Syria and Jordan
By Ghaleb Kandil
It is no exaggerating to say that the United States Ambassador to Lebanon, Maura Connelly, gave the kickoff of the new American plan to spread chaos and create an atmosphere of confrontation that lead to power emptiness in the country.
Coordinated movements of Takfirists extremists groups, the provocative speeches exacerbating political tensions and the media campaigns against (...)

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Americans must accept their defeat in Syria, or...

Beirut (Lebanon) | 4 March 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry, the (Syrian National Coalition chief) Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib and the Italian foreign minister Giulio Terzi at a meeting of (Friends of the Syrian People) on February 28, 2013 in Rome. Americans must accept their defeat in Syria, or...
By Ghaleb Kandil
U.S. President Barack Obama was quick to call his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin upon publication by the Russian ambassador to the Security Council a press release accusing the Rome Conference and its (...)

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Michel Aoun, a genuine reformer

Beirut (Lebanon) | 25 February 2013
Michel Aoun, a genuine reformer
By Ghaleb Kandil
The position of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader, General Michel Aoun, on the electoral law, has been the target of a smear campaign in order to distort it. While since he was in command of the army until he became a major political leader, he always displayed his opposition to sectarianism.
From the start of the debate on the electoral law, General Aoun was in favor of a single electoral district in Lebanon, coupled with (...)

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The American defeat against Bashar al-Assad

Beirut (Lebanon) | 18 February 2013
Kerry and Al Assad, 7 years ago The American defeat against Bashar al-Assad
By Ghaleb Kandil
Last week was marked by a series of clues illustrating a fundamental change in the American political and media discourse on Syria as a prelude to a frank admission of the failure of Washington’s plan in this country, which should appear after the Russian-American summit.
Thus, Washington has knowingly made that President Barack Obama rejected a plan of arming Syrian rebels presented by Hillary (...)

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Patriarch Raï in Damascus for a historical visit

Beirut (Lebanon) | 11 February 2013
Patriarch Raï in Damascus for a historical visit
By Pierre Khalaf
The Patriarch of the Maronite Church, Bechara Rai, has definitely turned the page of a decades-old dispute with Syria, by heading to Damascus to attend the inauguration of the new Greek Orthodox Patriarch, Yuhanna Yazigi. This religious and pastoral visit has an undeniable political dimension and it would not have happened without the encouragement of the Vatican that recommended to the heads of both Churches, Maronite and (...)

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March-14 coalition covers the assassination of Lebanese soldiers at Ersal

Beirut (Lebanon) | 1 February 2013
March-14 coalition covers the assassination of Lebanese soldiers at Ersal
By Pierre Khalaf
The aggression against the Lebanese army in Ersal, Friday, February 1, is the consequence of the climate installed the last two years by the head of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri, which promotes, maintains and supports Lebanese, Syrian and international terrorist groups, while concerned official circles pretend to see nothing.
Senior state officials have denied in the past two years the (...)

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The great lesson of patriotism of Hasan Nasrallah

Beirut (Lebanon) | 28 January 2013
The great lesson of patriotism of Hasan Nasrallah
By Ghaleb Kandil
The General Secretary of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, gave a good lesson of patriotism to all his detractors and opponents who suspect him of worst intentions and accuse him of the worst evils. In a speech which can be regarded as the culmination of a series of important statements, Hezbollah leader proclaimed its commitment to the state and to Lebanon as a final homeland. Addressing members of the party, Nasrallah (...)

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The Syrian army controls the field

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 21 January 2013
The Syrian army controls the field
By Ghaleb Kandil
Western reports and press articles emphasize the rout of terrorist gangs in Syria and divisions that undermine their ranks. At the same time, the political Syrian opposition created by the West is bankrupt.
The latest developments in the field showed that the Syrian Arab Army (ASA) is advancing, and taking control of many troubled regions. It has liquidated rebel strongholds. According to reports in the Western press, terrorist groups (...)

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The American War against the Syrian state without prospects

Beirut (Lebanon) | 14 January 2013
The American War against the Syrian state without prospects
By Ghaleb Kandil
From what has came out from the tripartite meeting in Geneva between the Russians, the Americans and the international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, Friday, January 11, it is clear that the refusal of the United States to recognize the failure of the universal war that they launched against Syria and its president Bashar al-Assad, is a major obstacle that prevents a political solution to the Syrian crisis.
It is (...)

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President Assad propose a Syrian and a sovereign plan... to those who want to listen

Beirut (Lebanon) | 7 January 2013
President Assad propose a Syrian and a sovereign plan... to those who want to listen
By Pierre Khalaf
The timing chosen by President Bashar al-Assad to propose a plan to end the crisis is not trivial. It coincided, first, with successive defeats for the armed groups, which destroyed the illusions of the United States and its European and Arab auxiliaries, distorting all their calculations, and then with information about a Russian-American meeting, mid-January, to discuss the results of (...)

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Syria drawing up the new equations

Beirut (Lebanon) | 1 January 2013
By Ghaleb Kandil
Syria drawing up the new equations
The world and the region are turning the page of a year of consecutive disappointments which affected the global war on Syria throughout 2012. Indeed, all the illusions of the colonial Zionist alliance and the collaborating Arab and regional governments regarding the imminent fall of the Syrian national state, which played a pivotal role in the formation and command of the resistance axis that defeated the major American, Western and (...)

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Is Settlement Truly Impossible?

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 24 December 2012
Is Settlement Truly Impossible?
By Ghaleb Kandil
Many analyses, reports and positions in regard to the Syrian situation have been talking about the impossibility of settlement at the level of the ongoing conflict between the Syrian national state and the Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist gangs led by the Al-Nusra Front and including a mixture of Muslim Brotherhood elements and multinational Takfiri groups, along with local gangs featuring a mixture of thieves and bandits.
Firstly, the (...)

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America’s sinful adoption of Al-Qaeda for the second time.

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 17 December 2012
By Ghaleb Kandil
The Saudi role in the war on Syria
Firstly, on the political level, the government in Riyadh and the remaining Gulf governments, with the exception of Qatar, committed at the beginning of the Syrian events and for the next six months to stressing the necessity of maintaining Syrian stability. These reservations were actually caused by Saudi fears over the consequences of the actions witnessed in the Arab states since the end of 2011, and their repercussions on the Saudi (...)

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They are burning Tripoli and lying to it

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 10 December 2012
By Ghaleb Kandil
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Apple of Tyranny
It is known that the branch of the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is the most active on the intellectual and political levels, but also the most popular and open. Since the Camp David Accord, it opposed a backward regime affiliated with the colonial West and enjoying security, political and economic cooperation agreements with the Zionist enemy. Hence, it represented an environment and structure (...)

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They are supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 6 December 2012
By Ghaleb Kandil
They are supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria
The Syrian national state and its armed forces are continuing to fiercely resist the global war targeting them. And while they are deploying all efforts and capabilities to provide the requirements of economic steadfastness and overcome the consequences of the terrorism and armed rebellion carried out in some provinces, they are waging a strategic campaign to annihilate the strongholds of the terrorists, tens of thousands of whom were (...)

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Clear Military Victory for the Resistance

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 28 November 2012
During the speech of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah at the anniversary of Achoura,Hezbollah members are standing beside a replica of Fajr-5 missile.
By Ghaleb Kandil
Morsi’s coup and the exposure of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The incidents which broke out in Egypt following the presidential constitutional declaration did not come as a surprise. It was rather the expected result of the political course of the conflict over Egypt’s future, the nature of its regime and its nationalistic choice, but (...)

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The resistance system achieves victory despite the wounds.

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 21 November 2012
By Ghaleb Kandil
The resistance system achieves victory despite the wounds.
“Israel is weaker than a spider web.” This is the conclusion with which the leader of the Lebanese resistance, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, presented the 2000 victory achieved by the Lebanese resistance when it ousted the Zionist occupation from most of the Lebanese territories following an ongoing struggle led by the popular and armed resistance throughout one quarter of a century, i.e. since the first invasion in (...)

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The colonial predicament in Syria

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 12 November 2012
Sheikh Ahmad Maaz Al-Khatib was named the president of the national coalition, the new organization charged of supervising Syrian opposition parties that are supported by the NATO and the GCC.
By Ghaleb Kandil
The colonial predicament in Syria.
In the context of the global war on Syria, the signs of the predicament affecting the colonial alliance led by the United States emerged in a way pointing towards a new strategic turn under the decisive headline of the exit plan following the (...)

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Clinton and the shameful behavior of the opposition

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 9 November 2012
Hilary Clinton doesn’t want any more the Syrian National Council, which was a structure composed by its French and Qatari sponsors. No room for a third option in Syria
By Ghaleb Kandil
The consecutive American recognitions of the increasing size of the Takfiri movements and Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups within the so-called armed opposition in Syria, settled the controversy launched at the beginning of the events in favor of the Syrian national state, and exposed the Western hypocrisy (...)

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Moral Collapse and Mental Disorder

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 30 October 2012
Walid Joumblatt
By Ghaleb Kandil
Moral Collapse and Mental Disorder
During the last few days, the Lebanese watched live on television some of the chapters of the resounding collapse of the March 14 forces in the streets of Beirut, Tripoli and Sidon, one which reached its dramatic peak with the scandalous attempt to storm the Serail. This constituted a failed and outrageous act, both politically and morally.
Firstly, the moral and cultural collapse of the March 14 forces has been (...)

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Al-Hassan’s Blood and the Power Craze

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 23 October 2012
European Tyranny and the Satellite Channels
The decision adopted by the European Union to discontinue the broadcasting of the Iranian channels on Hotbird and Eutelsat came to complement the campaign of pursuit targeting the channels that refused to succumb to the American will or to the Saudi and Qatari money in the region, or are playing an influential role in shaping the Arab and international public opinion and covering the events and developments while exposing the near and distant (...)

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The reality of the East stronger than the colonialists

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 15 October 2012
By Ghaleb Kandil
The reality of the East stronger than the colonialists
The Iraq invasion and occupation war was among the most costly wars for the American empire, as its economic and financial losses were estimated at trillions of dollars, and resulted in the death, wounding and displacement of millions of Iraqis and the fall of thousands of American and British soldiers among other multinational troops mobilized by George W Bush’s administration on the land of this Arab country. Senior (...)

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Erdogan fails to implicate NATO

by Pierre Khalaf

Beirut (Lebanon) | 8 October 2012
By Ghaleb Kandil
Erdogan fails to implicate NATO
The developments on the Turkish-Syrian border were the main object of interest of the concerned international and regional circles. And while Erdogan’s government firstly threatened with war, it recanted these threats later on and alleviated its tone, while continuously confirming it did not want war with Syria.
Firstly, the Turkish escalation – that was extremely confused in determining the source of the shell which was said to have exploded (...)

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by Wassim Raad

Popular transformation and the direction of the Syrian events

Beirut (Lebanon) | 25 September 2012
The 24th of September, the young men in the suburbs of Damascus surrender with their arms and taking the benefit of an amnesty By Ghaleb Kandil
Popular transformation and the direction of the Syrian events
The winds of the ongoing transformations in Syria have reached the structure of the coordination committees formed in many Syrian regions at the beginning of the events, in order to organize the demonstrations and in some cases support the armed rebellion. In reality, these (...)

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