What has the experience of Polish union leader Lech Wałęsa taught us as Lebanese, or rather as Arabs?
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Objectivity and humility necessitate the recognition that the banner of March 14 seems, this year, stuck at half-mast.
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Whoever follows the quarrels and bickering the Lebanese engage in gets the impression that there are two possibilities on the horizon, both of which induce pessimism.
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Though PM Hariri’s suggestion that the Feast of the Annunciation be designated a national holiday for both Christians and Muslims was done with good intentions, sectarianism is a matter of much more complexity than can be tackled by suggestions.
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There is no doubt that there is a deeply-rooted tradition in the thought process behind conspiratorial language, which, in the Middle East, has experienced continual, seemingly inexhaustible prosperity.
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Lebanese society, when it cooperates with itself as a society, has vitality. And perhaps it is this same vitality that transforms into violence when Lebanese society instead conducts itself as a mere collection of sects.
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The split over the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons has widened the sectarian gap and lessened the country’s opportunities for common national engagement in dealing with its many civil problems.
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The notion of “changing the face of the region” presses us to demand of the Resistance’s leadership: change to what end?
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It’s no joke. There are people in Beirut who held an “intellectual symposium” to honor “the martyred leader” Saddam Hussein on the third anniversary of his execution.
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The Iranian regime will not be able to save itself, neither through oppressive language nor direct physical oppression, the two means it has come to rely on today.
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The meaning given to “consensus” as expressed by the new government and the ministerial statement is based on two basic assumptions.
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The opposing demonstrations on the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran underline the divisions within Iran and the whole Middle East
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Pro-independence Lebanese should establish a wide-reaching workshop to elucidate the many setbacks Lebanon’s sovereignty has faced--and the responsibility advocates of independence have had for these—and come up with a set of guidelines that would prevent such setbacks in the future.
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The recent stabbings in Ain al-Remmaneh reveal the extent to which animosity pervades communal relations in Lebanon, as well as how Hezbollah fuels an ideology of violence.
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Two recent stories show how communism, when applied on the ground, transforms into an engine for despots.
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