🔺"MBS's political future is linked to normalization."
Ali Mourad says MBS knows he is vulnerable and must secure US support, so he sees his political future tied to normalization with Israel, funding reconstruction in Gaza, South Lebanon, and Syria, while trying to claim gains for Palestinians.
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🔺“When Lebanon faces real danger, it will unite.”
Sima Itayim argues that Lebanon’s 2017 joint operation against Takfiri militants exposed the failure of US and Israeli efforts to fracture the country’s security architecture.
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🔺 "This is like coercive diplomacy"
Sima Itayim asserts that fear-based deterrence fails, as Lebanon's history demonstrates that threats lack credibility and compliance offers no security.
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🔺“Syria is not a model for Lebanon”
Sima Itayim says Washington uses fear and instability to force Lebanon into submission, but this strategy only deepens distrust.
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🔺According to Hassan Hijazi, Israel openly intends to hold its seized areas on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon while the Jolani regime from the start committed itself to negotiation rather than armed resistance.
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🔺Hasan Hijazi states that despite years of devastation, Syrians are building grassroots forces unwilling to tolerate ongoing Zionist attacks in southern Syria.
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🔺Myriam Charabaty argues that Vatican pressure pushes Lebanese Christians toward a dangerous idea of neutrality that overlooks their right to defend themselves and the oppressed in God’s name against an existential threat from Israel.
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🔺Myriam Charabaty says the Vatican’s refusal to use the word “genocide” is not neutrality but a harmful stance that erodes trust among Eastern Christians.
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🔺“No Pope in history has ever visited southern Lebanon.”
Myriam Charabaty underscores that the Pope’s omission of the war-ravaged south feels like a symbolic abandonment to its Christian communities.
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🔺Pope Leo XIV’s Lebanon visit highlights calls for peace but faces criticism for omitting war-torn southern communities and Gaza, where many feel overlooked and unheard.
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🔺Despite the November 27, 2024 ceasefire, Israeli forces have relentlessly attacked southern Lebanon, exposing the agreement’s collapse in practice.
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🔺"MBS's political future is linked to normalization."
Ali Mourad says MBS knows he is vulnerable and must secure US support, so he sees his political future tied to normalization with Israel, funding reconstruction in Gaza, South Lebanon, and Syria, while trying to claim gains for Palestinians.
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🔺Ali Mourad notes that American policy in West Asia guarantees Israel comes first, meaning bin Salman can never fully assert independence despite military deals.
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