Lebanese International Activism

Should we, The Lebanese Diaspora, support people like Jeanine Pirro?

I have been checking the Lebanese Lobby’s Website for a while.
At first, I had my doubts that it followed an old fashion LBC-esque Maronitism, but it didn’t take me long to realize that, like Annahar, it has a real March-14 essence. It takes pride in [...]

Fog Of War

Did Hariri have one of these?

If the rumors are to be believed, Ex-PM Rafic Hariri had recorded his whole conversation with Syrian President Bashar Assad (the one where Assad had famously threatened him of “Breaking Lebanon on top of his Head”) using some sort of high-end recording pen device offered to him by president Jacques [...]

Let There Be Light

Mohammed Fneish, our Hezbollah Minister, is the best person to save EDL and boost Hezbollah’s reputation.

“It is very unfair that we regularly pay our electricity bills, whereas Hezbollah-ruled (Shiite) areas do not, because they are armed and zi3ran”
Most of us have heard at least a version of the above statement. The Hezbollah Areas have always [...]

On Berri And Aoun

If the Shiaas chose their man, why can’t the Maronites?

I’ve been thinking about this and I wanted to know what you think. Everytime Aoun supporters or other pundits explain why he should be President, they use the following logic: Since the Shiaas chose Nabih Berri for Speaker, despite the objection of the rest of the [...]

The Syrians Have a Plan

Why can’t the Syrians get it?
On a T.V. program about Mehlis’ visit to Damascus, a Syrian member of the People’s Parliament laid out his ‘understanding’ of the Mehlis’ investigation’s outcome: “We know ourselves, we know we didn’t kill martyr Hariri. So unless Mehlis is politically motivated, we are confident that Syria will be exonerated”.
You don’t [...]

Welcome

Armand Homsi explains to us why President Lahhoud took such a large group with him to the UN trip.

Cartoon By Armand Homsi, Annahar Newspaper, September 12, 2005 (Cartoon slightly modified by The Beirut Spring)

Harb For President

The Beirut Spring wholeheartedly supports the candidacy of Boutros Harb for the Lebanese Presidency.

It is perhaps ironic that, for the first post-Syrian peace era, The Beirut Spring endorses a man whose last name means “war”. Yet Mr. Boutros Harb, although not the most handsome of men, is the best candidate in Lebanon for the presidency.
In [...]

Death By a Thousand Cuts?

Against the backdrop of the scandallous UN trip, the demands for the president to resign are snowballing.
Malek, a Lebanese living in California, pitches in with his own version of “Lahhoud Should Go”: A letter from a Lebanese citizen to President Lahhoud. (Illustration by Malek)

Dear Mr. President,
Mr. President, we are not judging you on your past [...]