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Pope Francis expressed his desires to visit Lebanon multiple times and the Vatican studied the possibility seriously. However, due to the political volatility and financial collapse in 2019 those planned visit never materialized.
The 1958 conflict set a Lebanese precedent: the country’s crises would repeatedly invite external involvement.
Lebanon’s role as the playing ground of regional and international rivalries was unfortunately set.
حُلَّت مشكلة صخرة الروشة او لم تحل!
لا يهم من افتعلها ولماذا,ومن حلها ولماذا؟
المهم ان كل ما حدث لم يغير او يحسِّن شيئا في حياتنا,انما ابقانا في ثقافة الذكرى, التي تمارسها كل الاحزاب السياسية في لبنان, فتخنقنا في دائرة الماضي والحزن والانتقام, وترهُن حاضرنا بماضينا, فتجعل مستقبلنا مؤجلاً دائما.
#LBCINews
The Lebanon-Israel border is the safest border in the Middle East.
This sounds like a bad joke, but for more than 20 years after the Nakba, it was reality. A thread 🧵
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Israel will eventually want peace. The question is when? And the answer is not now
We look back at Ben-Gurion’s doctrine and comparing it with Netanyahu playbook gives us important clues
The Palestinian conflict shaped modern Lebanon.
Did you know the biggest shift came in the 1930s not after the Nakba or the Cairo agreement?
One man in exile changed Lebanese public opinion forever.
Here’s how Haj Amin al-Husseini rewired Lebanon’s view of Palestine 🧵
Today, @WHO received notification from the Israel Defense Forces that we should remove our supplies from our medical warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours, as ground operations will put it beyond use.
We appeal to #Israel to withdraw the order, and take every possible measure to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and humanitarian facilities.
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