Persistent Syrian Threat to Lebanon’s Existence
I post below an opinion written by Walid Phares in 1991 and posted on Lebanon File’s electronic version published (in ...
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Back to the Future
Some 20 years ago, at the height of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, I wrote the piece below. ...
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Testimony Before the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine
By Phillip K. Hitti, 1946
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Lebanon’s Top Export: Corruption – A Case Study
You think that southern Italy is where the Mafia runs supreme. You be wrong. InLebanon, corruption is in the DNA; ...
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US Reporters’ Naive but Harmful Coverage of Lebanon.
In 1992, I sent a letter to the magazine “The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), to which both ...
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The Rustling of the Cedars
The book « Hafif Al-Arz » (The Rustling of the Cedars) was published byYoussef Ayoub Hitti in Rio de Janeiro around 1920. ...
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“Dr.” Bouthaina Shaaban, the Damascus Butcher’s Jezebel
من هي السورية المقيتة ” بُشْعَنا ثعبان” المعروفة بـ “بثينة شعبان”؟ The piece below is from the archives. It tells ...
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France and US Continue Appeasing the Hezbollah Killer of their soldiers
On the dawn of Sunday October 23, 1983, Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist arm of thebarbarian theocracy of Iran, simultaneously blew ...
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Amos Hochstein Still Trying to Sell Junk to the Lebanese
After succeeding – at least on the surface – in clinching a deal between Lebanon and Israel over their maritime ...
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Chronicles of the Lebanese Christians Losing Patience
Another April 13 is coming up, the date in 1975 when the Lebanese Christians took up arms against the Syrians ...
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