Hezbollah Attacks Shebaa

If Syria wants to liberate her farms, she should do it herself.

Yet another round of pointless attacks by Hezbollah to ‘liberate’ the Shebaa Farms, which, according to the UN, is Syrian territory under Israeli occupation.
Hezbollah has always claimed that such attacks are based on “field considerations”, in other words, the political situation in Lebanon [...]

Our Blood-Soaked Independence

A picture released by Annahar today reminds us of how insolent our occupiers have always been. It shows Turkish officials posing for the camera, smirking, proud of having hanged freedom-loving Lebanese nationalists back then.

You can find the picture on Annahar’s main page.

On The Lebanese Bloggosphere

This is to let you all know that I have done my first Lebanese Bloggosphere Summary in Global Voices Online
You can read it here; it included links to The Lebanese Bloggers, Lebanese Political Journal, Across The Bay, From Beirut To The Beltway, Abu Takla, Lebanonesque, Arch Memory, and to yours truly.
Please read it and give [...]

The Frog and The Ox

Assem Quanso wants your attention. Pleeaaase…

One of Aesop’s most famous fables is that of the Frog and the Ox.
A frog passes by a big ox one day, and notices that the ox completely ignores him.
The conceited frog decides to capture the attention of the uninterested ox, so he blows himself up and jumps in [...]

Figuring Hezbollah Out

The Lebanese are from Mars. Are Hezbollah’s followers from Venus?

I come from the Northern port city of Tripoli. The only time I’ve ever been to the South was after the liberation in 2000, in the context of a “fun trip to the south”. Even when I studied in AUB, it so happened that I didn’t [...]

A Complete Change of Perspective.

The Students Elections in Lebanese Universities are the sign of something big to come: a Lebanese political system based on two parties.

When analyzing the student elections of the American University of Beirut, a lot of fellow pundits and commentators felt a great deal of confusion and despair.
Lebanon Profile writes:
It is shocking to see the people [...]

The logical endings

Two previous posts by The Beirut Spring deserve follow-ups:
1-In “How To Squeeze A Regime”, I mentioned that Syria is being pressured from the east, south and west. Today, the North, Turkey, has joined the fray to try to convince the Syrian President to cooperate with Inspector Mehlis.
2-In “The Aoun Challenge”, I had suggested that Gebran [...]

Worthless Threats

A lot has been made of the Syrian-inspired “Diesel demonstrations” that will allegedly rock Beirut on Thursday, and perhaps topple Seniora’s government. This blogger predicts that such demonstrations will fail miserably.

When a Syrian newspaper calls for a demonstration to take place in Lebanon, with the intent of causing mayhem, a lot of Lebanese people automatically [...]