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France deprives Lebanon of its caregivers

20 September 2021

Following a visit to Beirut, the Director-General of the World Health Organization and the Regional Director of its Eastern Mediterranean office lamented the fact that 40% of doctors in Lebanon and 30% of registered nurses have emigrated from the country in the span of a few weeks.
Tedros (...)

A New World Order Takes Shape (Part III)

The political architecture of the new Middle East

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 7 September 2021

The post-Syrian war Middle East is taking shape. Everything would change: Syria would join the Russian-led military coalition and be de facto protected by it. Lebanon would be placed under joint Russian-US tutelage but occupied militarily by France. Iraq would replace Lebanon as a regional (...)

Jordanian-Egyptian axis to the aid of Lebanon

7 September 2021

The Jordanian-Egyptian axis, which was displayed at the Baghdad summit, has been tasked by the United States and Russia to help Lebanon secure energy supplies.
A meeting will be held on September 7 in Amman bringing together delegations from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon ... and Syria to work out the (...)

Hezbollah seeking to import oil to save Lebanon

21 August 2021

Lebanon is on the verge of final collapse if it fails to import energy sources. Electricité du Liban is no longer able to provide more than two hours of power per day. Those who have generators can no longer operate them for lack of fuel oil. Little by little, all the factories are closing down (...)

"The Lord God has plans for peace, together for Lebanon"

by Pope Francis

Vatican City | 1 July 2021

Conclusion of the ecumenical prayer by Francis
Dear brothers and sisters,
We assembled today to pray and reflect, impelled by our deep concern for Lebanon – a country very close to my heart and which I wish to visit – as we see it plunged into a serious crisis. I am grateful to all the (...)

Towards a neutral Lebanon under US-Russian tutelage and Syrian administration

1 July 2021

The Russian delegation that has been in Lebanon for a week, has offered to tackle the problems plaguing the country in terms of food, drinking water and electricity supply.
Russia has expressed its intention of building grain silos (destroyed by the explosion in the port of Beirut), water (...)

Yalta II: Lebanon in the Russian zone

14 June 2021

Just two days before the USA-Russia summit in Geneva, the “Yalta II”, the Lebanese leaders are wrapping up their consultations in Moscow. After the Shia Islamist party Hezbollah, the Republic’s Christian President Michel Aoun and Sunni Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, it is the turn of (...)

Hezbollah ready to meet basic needs of Lebanese people

11 June 2021

During a televised speech on 8 June 2021, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah cautioned Lebanese politicians.
After denouncing the shortage of medicines - arranged by the distributors, according to him - the problems hampering fuel, electricity and, now, food supplies, he exhorted (...)

Lebanon’s power supply to be cut off as from 22 June

18 May 2021

Pubic company Electricité du Liban (EDL) has begun to scale down its production (currently six hours a day). It has announced that, due to lack of resources, it will shut down all activity no later than 22 June 2021.
On Friday, 14 May 2021, Turkish floating powerstations of Zouk and Jiyé (...)

Moscow invites Hezbollah to open representation in Russia

14 April 2021

In March, the Russian government hosted for three days the chairman of the Hezbollah parliamentary group in Lebanon, Mohamed Raad. He was accompanied by Ammar al-Musawi, communications officer for the Party of Allah, and Ahmad Melli, international relations specialist.
Russia no longer (...)

Who is Destroying Lebanon and Why?

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 22 December 2020

If the destruction of five states in the Greater Middle East over the past two decades has required deadly wars, the destruction of Lebanon was carried out by the Lebanese themselves, without them realizing it. The Resistance has helplessly seen the country collapse. It is indeed possible to (...)

Towards a partition of Lebanon?

8 October 2020

In an article which appeared in Foreign Policy, Joseph Kechchian, a renowned American political scientist working for Saudi Arabia, presented a plan for the partition of Lebanon [1]. His reasoning is based on the observation of the historical failure of the confessional system (or rather (...)

Hezbollah responds to President Macron

1 October 2020

In his televised address on 29 September 2020, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah responded to the admonitions of the French President and threats from the Israeli Prime Minister.
Regarding the role played by France in the Lebanese crisis, he expressed his astonishment about (...)

Israel playing with Lebanese people’s nerves

30 September 2020

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly by videoconference on 29 September 2020, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu jangled the nerves of Lebanese citizens [2].
Referring to the explosion that took place in Beirut on 4 August, without specifying whether it was an accident or an (...)

President Macron’s bad play in Lebanon

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 29 September 2020

Playing Deus ex machina, President Macron came to distribute the good and bad points to the Lebanese leaders. Sure of his superiority, he said he was ashamed of the behavior of this political class. But all this is just a bad play. Underhandedly, he is trying to destroy the Resistance and to (...)

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