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.

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.
 

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. 😂

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

The fire is inside one of the hangars in the industrial city of Ghaziyeh.

Fire has been extinguished.

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?

Iraq: This is the number of MPs present in the session devoted to discussing the tragedy of the fire that killed at least 82 and injured over 100 in Baghdad Abu Al-Khatib Hospital on Saturday, after the explosion of an oxygen tank.

Once again showcasing the isolation of many of the political class from the reality of the people's suffering.

Palestine: Gaza:

The Golani Brigade, which serves on the borders of Palestine with (Lebanon / Syria), receives instructions to prepare to move to the southern front (Gaza) within a short time.

Swarms of locusts invaded the border town of Al-Qasr in Hermel in northern Bekaa and spread in its orchards.

Appeals from the people to the Ministry of Agriculture and the army leadership to combat them as soon as possible.

Leaked words by Zarif expressing Nasrallah's high position in Iran:

“Zarif to one of his attackers and skeptics said:

“ Those who attack me at home should ask Hassan Nasrallah about me, am I a traitor or a revolutionary?"

https://jadehiran.com/?p=27493

Lebanese Customs have arrested 4 individuals involved in smuggling a shipment of Captagon to Saudi Arabia.