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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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David Hale is soon to be replaced with Victoria Nuland: an American-Jewish diplomat, she is the granddaughter of immigrants from Ukraine, and served as US Assistant Secretary of State in the Eurasian file. She became famous with the leak of her meddling in the Ukrainian government process, in the plot that ousted pro-Russia President Yanukovych in 2014.

David Hale's last visit to Lebanon included a bid of farewell to Lebanese politicians (the corrupt ones).
It is wise for Gazan faction leadership to cover their track and lay low, the only way to explain the weak or lack of IDF response against rocket fire, is their will to assassinate.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Syrian Arab Republic strongly condemns the crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian citizens and reaffirms its firm support for our heroic people in Jerusalem and in all the occupied territories in Palestine and Syria.
Foreign Ministry: Syria calls on the international community, including the Security Council, to assume its responsibilities, to stop Israeli crimes, and to move quickly to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque and occupied Jerusalem
17 tons of hashish coming from Lebanon were seized and burned yesterday in Niger. It was passed through an African port. 12 Nigerians and 1 Algerian have been arrested. (https://www.actuniger.com/soci…)

I hope the Lebanese security forces, especially the two tasked with fighting narcotics (namely the customs, and the anti-narcotics "task force" in the ISF), are happy with the new reputation of Lebanon being a hub for drug manufacturing.
Hashish is grown on all main roads in Beqaa and all mountains there. It's visibile on Sattelite. It's not exactly complimented to shoot and kill some farmers and destroy their crops.

As for Captagon, minimalist intelligence work would give you access to any factory.
The Lebanese started drug careers by smuggling to Switzerland in the 1960s and 1970s.

If we want to end this clown show, it's easy (not exactly in a farm called Lebanon), by sending security forces and the army on raids in Beqaa. I bet we could destroy enough crops and factories in one day to setback the manufacturing for years.

When was the last time did you hear on the news that the Lebanese security apparatus raided a hash farm? Not in a decade and half. They only arrest end users and some factories.

There is no will from the government or the security forces to fight.
When Vice and BBC can do to Beqaa and meet drug lords and do interviews with zero blurring, or when Al Jadeed can meet Noah Zuaiter, I believe ISF and Leb army can do that too and reach them.

Hash aside, captagon is more serious and much more widespread.
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17 tons of hashish coming from Lebanon were seized and burned yesterday in Niger. It was passed through an African port. 12 Nigerians and 1 Algerian have been arrested. (https://www.actuniger.com/soci…) I hope the Lebanese security forces, especially the…
They call it the "Liban Connection", in reference to the "French Connection", a large scheme for the smuggling of Turkish-produced opium (heroin) to France, USA, etc, that reached a peak in the 1960s.
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The Palestinian resistance fires a missile at the settlements of the Gaza envelope as a token of thanks and appreciation to the occupation police for their bold decision to remove the checkpoints in the Bab al-Amoud (Damascus Gate) area. 😂
Forwarded from Quds News Network
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Victory! The revolutionary young men of #Jerusalem, their steadfastness and resistance, have forced the Israeli occupation police to remove the metal barriers they put up at the Damascus Gate area where the Palestinians usually hold Ramadan evening gatherings.
The US is so cheap in Lebanon, the ambassador is visiting some lockers (cheap) donated by USAID to a fire fighting department

I wonder why didn't the chinese ambassador visit the kits above those lockers, they are Chinese. Oh right, he has dignity and he thinks Lebanese have too
NEWS from 5 minutes ago:

Reports of explosion/fire in Al Zaatari factory in Ghazieyh.
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The fire is inside one of the hangars in the industrial city of Ghaziyeh.
I am convinced that the official IDF account on Twitter is run by a 16 year old.

The cringe is unbearable.
Azerbaijan is ready to host a trilateral summit with Turkey and Israel, and Baku is doing everything it could do to improve Turkish - Israeli relationship says Aliyev’s chief foreign policy advisor Hikmet Hajiyev
Lebanese diaspora need to set priorities straight.

Why is anyone donating to a nightclub when there is much more dire need somewhere else in Lebanon. What's next? A fundraiser for Bank Audi?
This is what the HSV-2 Swift hybrid catamaran looks like now, which was leased by the UAE Navy and then hit by Ansarullah anti-ship missile in the Red Sea in 2016.