Tent City Not Cool Anymore

Hanin Ghaddar wrote a piece for Now Lebanon on how the Tent city is losing its people. Ahh, the good ol’ days with all the parties, free food and endless speeches. Things never stay the same do they?
“The camp is not entertaining anymore,” complained Ghassan, a 23-year-old student from Beirut’s southern suburbs. “When the sit-in [...]

Global Warming Kills 15 Syrian Soldiers, Wounds 50

A military training compound in Aleppo was hit by a massive explosion that killed and maimed dozens of soldiers. Syrian officials blame the weather, but is it really the culprit?
The almushat military academy (photo: Alarabiya)
The story of the Syrian officials sounds fishy; extreme heat does indeed cause military equipment to expand and bolts to loosen, [...]

Hezbollah Missile Launchers In Beirut?

The website of March 14 has a story about Hezbollah moving Missile launchers into the heart of Beirut for the first time.
Next stop: Beirut? (please refer to comments on the photo)
The article refers to the Russian news agency as its source. I have spent the last hour scouring the internet for the original source and [...]

New Tactics

Naher Al Bared Power shortages are causing the Army to ponder alternative methods of transportation:

Our boys are even sharing their limited resources:

(Photo source: tayyar)

Syria Occupies Lebanon. Again

Read Bret Stephens article in the Wall Street Journal in which he describes Syria’s latest land grab as “proportionally equivalent to a foreign power occupying Arizona. “

Stephens refers to the latest report by the International Lebanese Committee for UNSCR 1559:
In meticulous detail–supplemented by photographs, satellite images, archival material and Lebanese military maps predating Syria’s 1976 [...]

Deceiving Paris II

The way the government treated the DSL matter shows that it is not serious about reforms.

The objective of any government reform is to make life easier for the consumer. This is done by encouraging more competition to push down the prices and increase the quality of services, and by unburdening the tax-payers from large and [...]

Who’s The Villain?

In the tradition of this blog, it is giving space to a very faithful reader who, to put it mildly, doesn’t share the author’s perspectives. Please welcome Ali’s take on my last post, and respond constructively with arguments, not insults.
[Mustapha] seems bothered that an Arab country is getting an aid packagefrom Iran, but it does [...]

Mobilisation In Israel Over Iran-Syria Deal

A report in Alsharq Al-awsat about a $1B Iranian military aid to Syria is causing reverberations in Israel.

Until yesterday, many Israelis were hopeful that some kind of peace talks with Syria could take place. But when a report by the Saudi-owned newspaper Alsharq Alawsat reveals that Iran promised to supply Syria with $ 1 Billion [...]