After six weeks in Beirut, duing which I witnessed a substantial swing in the balance of power in the Middle East in favour of the Greater Israel project, it is time to take stock.
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Craig,
Either there is the will and means to effect resistance – or there isn’t.
For the moment, with the exception of the Houthis, there is consistently expressed will but in practical terms – not the means. You have stated, with first hand information, this reality.
Time and change of circumstances will dictate events, seems to me.
An assured catalyst is that where there is injustice there inevitably will be resistance.
Isn’t that the reality?
Thanks for sharing your information, insights and the specific details on the ground.
Thank you for this excellent analysis. Bleak house for sure.
You’ve done your bit to expose Israeli war crimes in Lebanon. Possibly you can continue the fight against Israeli apartheid and genocide in the West after your return. As you say, the new government in Damascus may not prove friendly to Israel at all in the longer term, on the contrary. So well done, and MXHNY to you and family as well.
Godspeed, Bon voyage, Alhamdoulillah.
Let’s keep the nefarious intelligence services monitoring your blog unaware of your whereabouts and traveling plans…
Happy Holiday Season for you and your loved ones. Please make sure to have post-production of your yet-unreleased documentaries completed in time for Xmas. This will be by far the best gift for your readers, and many of them may have chosen to have this year a Lebanese cedar in their family room instead of a regular Nordmann fir!
No, and here I beg to differ, Imperialism is NOT winning. The metric system clearly makes the rules, sorry. One day, Scotland may even drive on the right side, who knows.
It’s only temporary winning for imperialism, I’m pretty sure. Syria could easily go horribly wrong for the empire. The jihadis won’t tolerate Israel very long. Maybe not all of them, but open abandonment of their principles will stick in the craw of a large number of the jihadis, and Julani may have trouble keeping control. Equally, the IDF may get overconfident (under its own jihadi-like command) and expand into the open lands of Syria. That would put the Israeli military at severe risk sooner or later.
Hezbollah does have its own independent weapons-manufacturing capabilities. Besides, Hezbollah survived the decades when Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi government made it unsafe to send anything from Iran to Hezbollah by land.
Before the Americans destroyed the Iranophobic government of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iranians were able to somehow reach Hezbollah without needing the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon land route. My opinion is that the loss of Syria is a huge setback, but not a permanent blow.
Is there a transcript?
Quicker to take in; fewer distractions; less encouragement to and reliance on Google.
Careful what you say …
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