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Beirut Among Ruins and Mourning, ‘An Era Has Ended’
The cries from the women at the windows of southern Beirut’s suburbs echo for the killing of Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah by Israel. For over 30 years, Nasrallah led Hezbollah, a figure revered to the point of being seen by many as an ‘eternal’ presence. “The Sayyid isn’t dead. He continues to resist with us against…
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Nasrallah: a life of resistance against Israel
Hasan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader reportedly killed by the IDF in yesterday’s bombing of Beirut, built his life and political career around one core mission: armed resistance to Israel’s presence in Lebanon and the region. This mission eventually positioned him as the only Arab Shiite leader capable of standing on equal footing with Iran’s supreme…
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Nasrallah, una vita di resistenza contro Israele
La parabola personale e politica di Hasan Nasrallah, il leader di Hezbollah che l’Idf rivendica aver ucciso nel bombardamento di ieri su Beirut, è stata quasi sin dall’inizio della sua movimentata esistenza segnata dalla necessità di resistere con le armi alla presenza violenta di Israele in Libano e nella regione: tanto da farlo diventare, col…
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To Evoke (and wage) War to Stay in Power
(This is a translation into English of my commentary for the Italian newspaper Domani, published on August 27, 2024) BEIRUT – AUG 27 – The latest exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah, which occurred in the early hours of last Sunday, and the subsequent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader…
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The Thin (Blue) Line between war of attrition and open warfare
The boundary grows ever more fine, much like the Blue Line that marks off Lebanon from Israel, blurring the lines between the imminent threat of outright war between Hezbollah and Israel and the ongoing daily clashes. These have intensified over the past six months, featuring an escalation in fire exchanges between the Upper Galilee and…
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Libano, negoziazione e potere in tempo di tregua
