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This Week on This is America: Charlie Kirk, 9/11, Hezbollah, Israel

Tylia El Helou, 17/09 22:00 - Reading : less than a minute

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On this week’s episode of This is America, we cover the murder of Charlie Kirk, the 24th commemoration of 9/11, and the U.S. $14.2 million aid package to the Lebanese Army. We also feature an exclusive interview with Hanin Ghaddar, Friedmann Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute, to discuss disarming Hezbollah and the path to peace with ...

Politicians Oppose Plan to Project Images of Hezbollah Leaders on Raouche Rock

This is Beirut, 17/09 19:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Hezbollah has stirred controversy among Lebanese politicians after announcing on Tuesday that the images of former Secretary Generals Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine would be projected on the Rock of Raouche on the anniversary of their deaths. During a press conference, Hezbollah’s head of activities, Ali Daher, said that the Raouche ...

Rigged Pagers: Hezbollah’s Fatal Blow

Rayan Chami, 17/09 17:40 - Reading : less than a minute

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September 17, 2024, will be remembered as a dark day in Hezbollah’s history. Thirty-nine people were killed and around 3, 500 thousand of its officials and fighters were injured in brutal and unusual circumstances: the simultaneous explosion of booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies. Let’s break it down.

The Incredible Pagers Affair: The Shadow Behind the Explosion

Natasha Metni Torbey, 17/09 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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September 17, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Like so many other dates, this one once again thrust Lebanon into the unexpected. In an almost everyday silence, thousands of small devices, pagers, and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah forces exploded almost simultaneously. A deafening roar, flames erupting from offices, vehicles, and command centers. Dozens killed, ...

Rifi: Complaint Against Hezbollah’s Qassem Still Pending

This is Beirut, 17/09 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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MP Ashraf Rifi announced on Wednesday that the complaint filed against Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem on August 27 remains with Judge Jamal Hajjar’s office and has not yet been referred to the judicial police. Speaking at a press conference for the Sovereign Front, Rifi said, “although more than 24 days have passed since the ...

Same Script, Same Backdrop, Same Secretary-General

Marc Saikali, 17/09 11:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Every single week, like clockwork, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General graces us with yet another appearance. And somehow, even those Turkish soap operas dubbed in the Syrian dialect manage to look like Hollywood blockbusters by comparison. Naturally, the speeches are always prerecorded. Spontaneity is risky business when you’d rather not let the ...

Netanyahu Says Nasrallah’s Death Brought Down the Pro-Iranian Axis

This is Beirut, 16/09 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the death of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, 2024, in a violent Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, triggered the collapse of the pro-Iranian axis. “On October 7, we were attacked by the monsters of Hamas. The next day, Hezbollah joined the fight ...

Disarming Hezbollah: The Easy Way vs. The Hard Way

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, 16/09 16:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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The Lebanese government has yet to fully grasp the seismic shift in Israel’s defense doctrine from containment to preemption. Hezbollah, even if armed with rudimentary weapons like slingshots, will not be tolerated. Beirut must disarm and disband the Iran-backed militia immediately and will be given one final chance to do so. This is the Easy ...

Al-Sharaa’s High-Stakes Test in New York: Iran Wagers on His Downfall

Philippe Abi-Akl, 16/09 15:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Even as Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government implements the army’s plan to enforce the decision that all weapons be held exclusively by the state—monitoring progress monthly—and follows up on Syrian detainees in Lebanese prisons as well as displaced Syrians in preparation for their return, concern over border demarcation remains strong ...

The Surge of Pages and Rumors

Johnny Kortbawi, 16/09 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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In recent months, pages linked to the Axis of Resistance have grown on social media like fungi. There is no longer any way to keep track of them: every day or two, a new page appears under a different name but with the same content promoting the axis’s narrative in all its domestic and regional dimensions. These are not mere social media ...

Beirut Blast Suspect Detained in Bulgaria on Interpol Notice

This is Beirut, 16/09 12:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Igor Grechushkin was arrested on September 5 at Sofia Airport in Bulgaria, after arriving from Paphos, Cyprus, on the basis of an Interpol red notice. The news was reported by AFP, citing a Bulgarian judicial source on condition of anonymity. A 48-year-old Russian-Cypriot national, Grechushkin had been identified by the ship’s former ...

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