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Israeli-Lebanese agreement for the exploitation of Mediterranean gas

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 1 November 2022

The agreement signed by Israel and Lebanon, without ever meeting, finally allows to settle the problem of the maritime borders in the interest of both parties. This does not solve the basic problem of the sudden appearance of the Hebrew state in this region, but it allows to start exploiting (...)

British meddling in Lebanese Palestinian camps since 2009

15 April 2022

Journalist Kit Klarenberg leaked documents unveiling the manipulation of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon at the hands of ARK, a notorious British MI6 contractor run by Alistair Harris.
Since 2009, ARK has been operating myriad social services in Lebanese refugee camps administered by the (...)

Hezbollah supports Russia and Ukraine against US

6 March 2022

In a televised speech on 4 March 2022, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah took a stance on the Ukrainian crisis.
According to him, it is enough to cast our minds back to what has been happening for years to realize that Russia and Ukraine are both victims of US imperialism, (...)

Syria, Iran and Russia provide Hezbollah with means of defense

17 February 2022

Syria, Iran and Russia have supplied Hezbollah with anti-aircraft defenses, according to a revelation made by the secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance during an interview with Al-Alam TV.
The Lebanese daily Al-Ahkbar had broken the news on 8 February about the presence in Lebanon of (...)

17 Israeli spy rings dismantled in Lebanon

2 February 2022

During January 2022, the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) pulled down 17 Israeli spy networks. A large number of people were arrested, 21 of whom were held in preventive custody.
Unlike the spies arrested since 2008, who mainly worked in the army or telecommunications services, the (...)

Lebanon to receive gas supplies from Israel?

17 January 2022

On 15 January 2022, Israel’s Channel 12 News reported that a secret agreement to supply natural gas to energy-starved Lebanon had been signed between the Israeli and Lebanese governments. This may enable Lebanon to come out, at least partially, of its critical electricity crisis.
Negotiations (...)

Washington agreeable to a military regime in Lebanon

5 December 2021

The West is supportive of a military regime in Lebanon. As we pointed out in July 2020 [1], the United States would like to see the Christian commander of the army, General Joseph Aoun (unrelated to the current President of the Republic) [photo] become President of the Republic . This would (...)

France hands Lebanese minister’s head to heir of Saudi throne

5 December 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Riyadh on 4 December carrying in his pocket the resignation of Lebanese Information Minister George Cordahi (photo) which he offered to Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (“MBS”).
George Cordahi pursued a career as a journalist, then as an anchor on (...)

Moscow hands over satellite photos of port blast to Beirut

24 November 2021

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov provided his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib, visiting Moscow, with satellite images of the port of Beirut, captured immediately after the massive warehouse explosion that devastated the area on 4 August 2020
These images should make it possible (...)

Israel accuses Hezbollah of planning assassinations in Colombia

16 November 2021

According to the Mossad, a Lebanese Hezbollah team has been spying for several weeks on a former Israeli intelligence officer who has set up an office for a surveillance technology company in Bogota, Colombia. The team is reportedly at the point of assassinating him as well as various US (...)

Syria’s possible return to Lebanese scene

5 November 2021

Syria responded to the Security Council regarding the situation in Lebanon [2]. This is the first time in more than a decade that Damascus is getting involved in Lebanese politics.
This shift in attitude would indicate that Russia and the United States have acceded to Syria’s conditions for (...)

Lebanon’s bankruptcy deliberately caused by IMF under Christine Lagarde’s watch

8 October 2021

According to the Swiss Le Temps, the Lebanon Central Bank had known since 2016 that the country was headed toward bankrupcy [3]. Sensitive information was covered up by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the request of Riad Salameh. So, inexorably, the predicted disaster came to pass.
On (...)

A New World Order takes shape (Part 4)

Towards peace in Syria and Lebanon

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 28 September 2021

The agreements reached between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin following the Western military defeat in Syria are beginning to be implemented in the Middle East. The next steps should be the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and Syria, the expulsion of Turkish forces from northwestern (...)

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 (...)

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