Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Iran’s proxy Lebanon is a wreck. The Hezbollah-governed state has a collapsed currency and no energy supplies. For the past several weeks, plans have been floated (literally) either to bring Iranian oil into Lebanon on a ship – which would trigger sanctions – or to bring gas from Egypt – which would require working with Syria. […]

“A land without a people for a people without a land” is a phrase that gets under the skin of most Palestinians, who think that the authors of the phrase looked at Ottoman Palestine, did not see them, and instead saw an empty land. Yet perhaps this phrase would have made sense if we zoomed in […]