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Michael Young

@BeirutCalling

Senior editor, Carnegie Middle East Center. Author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle (Simon & Schuster 2010).

Beirut Katılım Ocak 2011
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Michael Young@BeirutCalling·
In 1984, I shot a militiaman. Story at the Lebanese Without Frontiers substack, to which I highly recommend you subscribe. It's full of fascinating material aimed at creating a collective Lebanese memory through personal recollection (and it's free): lebanesewithoutfrontiers.substack.com/p/how-i-shot-a…
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انتشرت على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي صورة تجمع أنطون صحناوي ومورغان أورتاغوس ورئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي بنيامين نتانياهو إلى الطاولة نفسها، في العشاء التكريمي الذي أُقيم في فندق فور سيزنز في واشنطن، في ذكرى السيناتور الأميركي ليندسي غراهام. الصورة تفتح الباب على تساؤلات متعدّدة حول مسار المفاوضات اللبنانية - الإسرائيلية، وطبيعة العلاقة بين نتانياهو المتّهم بارتكاب جرائم ضد الإنسانية، وصحناوي المتّهم بـ"نصبة" الهندسات المالية وتضييع أموال المودعين اللبنانيين… حازم الأمين يناقش... A photo of Antoun Sehnaoui, Morgan Ortagus, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seated at the same table during a dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington honoring Senator Lindsey Graham has gone viral. The photo raises a series of questions about the course of the Lebanese-Israeli negotiations and the nature of the relationship between Netanyahu, who is accused of crimes against humanity, and Sehnaoui, who has been accused of orchestrating the financial engineering scheme that cost Lebanese depositors their savings. Hazem Al Amin discusses.

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جنوبية | Janoubia@janoubia_news·
🔴 مشهد مُرعب لمقبرة جماعية يتم تجهيزها في مجدل سلم جنوب لبنان لـ129 شخصًا من شبابها الذي قضوا في المعركة الأخيرة مع إسرائيل
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Michael Young@BeirutCalling·
First of a five-part series on the Sehnaoui family, with a focus on Antoun, who invited Benjamin Netanyahu to dinner yesterday, by @HayekCaroline. Antoun and his father Nabil tried to get a judge to ban publication of the story, but their request was rejected. lorientlejour.com/article/154257…
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Caroline Hayek@HayekCaroline·
@BeirutCalling Thank you Michael. With my colleague Cyrille Nême
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Michael Young@BeirutCalling·
Nabih Berri has been targeted by Israel and its U.S. allies. While he is a paramount representative of Lebanon's predatory political class, which brought ruin on the country, he's also the only interlocutor there is with Hezbollah. Mine for @NationalComment: thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…
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Sulaiman Ahmed@ShaykhSulaiman·
JUST IN: ISRAEL’S KATZ ON DESTROYING LEBANON: “Twenty-four Lebanese villages, hundreds of years old, we destroyed all the buildings, not house by house, but entire villages. Their destruction has been completed. You need to understand: 15,000 to 20,000 homes across all 24 villages have been destroyed.”
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Michael Young@BeirutCalling·
As I've repeated many times, a peace treaty will carry us into Israel's sphere of interest, because the Israelis will try, and likely secure, security conditions that undermine our sovereignty, against the will and interests of other regional countries that are seeking to balance off Israel—Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Syria ... Indeed, Israel would use us against these countries. We also will be tied to the Israeli energy network, giving Israel considerable leverage over us. We have no interest in taking such a path today, as we would find ourselves at the heart of a regional struggle, on an issue that continues to divide the Lebanese domestically. It would effectively be a peace without peace. Far better to limit our ambitions to agreeing security guarantees for the border area, border demarcation, and discuss peace once Israel meets the conditions of the Arab states.
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Michael Young@BeirutCalling·
In discussions in Washington last week, Trump and Aoun allegedly broached security arrangements between the U.S. and Lebanon, following suggestions by “some Lebanese officials and Lebanese active in Washington.” This is being portrayed as the only way to protect Lebanon from Israeli hegemony, but also Iranian hegemony (and Syrian hegemony). Yet one of the conditions for such a scenario is the conclusion of a Lebanese-Israeli peace treaty, which to my mind defeats the purpose of protecting Lebanon from Israeli hegemony (and knowing who the Lebanese active in Washington are, Lebanon’s independence in this regard is of marginal interest). @mounir_rabih claims Aoun is pushing for a more gradual process, and, implied in the article, may not necessarily be on board with all these far-reaching proposals. We have to see where this is going, and even whether the reporting is accurate; but if it is, it increasingly appears that the Lebanese lobby in Washington is working closely with the Israelis on this front, but is falsely selling its proposals as a way of consolidating Lebanon’s independence and neutrality. There is certainly resistance to this idea in Beirut, but who will prevail? almodon.com/politics/2026/…
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@BeirutCalling Why? "... Yet one of the conditions for such a scenario is the conclusion of a Lebanese-Israeli peace treaty, which to my mind defeats the purpose of protecting Lebanon from Israeli hegemony".
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Michael Young@BeirutCalling·
Sohaib outlines Lebanon's position in a shifting region, and how Turkey, Syria, and the Gulf states view the country. One should ask, in light of this, how easy it would be for Beirut to agree to measures that lead to its absorption into an Israeli sphere of interest.
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يدخل لبنان تدريجياً إلى قلب مسار إقليمي جديد، تتداخل فيه الأبعاد الأمنية والسياسية والاقتصادية. ويبدو أن الخط الأول في هذا المسار بات تركياً، بعدما رفعت أنقرة مستوى اهتمامها بالملف اللبناني واعتبرته جزءاً من أمنها القومي، بما يتجاوز إطار العلاقات الثنائية التقليدية. أما الخط الثاني فهو سوري، في ضوء تأكيد الرئيس أحمد الشرع أن دمشق تدعم حصر السلاح بيد الدولة اللبنانية، لكنها ترفض الانزلاق إلى أي تدخل عسكري داخل لبنان، في محاولة لرسم مقاربة مختلفة للعلاقة بين البلدين. ويأتي الخط الثالث خليجياً، عبر التنسيق السعودي–القطري الذي يقوده الأمير يزيد بن فرحان والوزير محمد الخليفي، والهادف إلى توفير مظلة سياسية وإقليمية لدعم مسار الاستقرار اللبناني، وتكتسب هذه التحركات أهمية إضافية مع تنامي دور المبعوث الأميركي توم باراك، الذي قدّم للإدارة الأميركية تصوراً متقدماً لمعالجة ملف السلاح والوضع في جنوب لبنان، بالتوازي مع زيارة رئيس الحكومة نواف سلام إلى بغداد، التي تندرج في سياق ربط لبنان بمشاريع الطاقة والنقل الإقليمية بدعم تركي–أميركي. كما جاء الاتصال المسائي بين الوزير محمد الخليفي ونائب رئيس الحكومة طارق متري ليؤكد أن وتيرة التنسيق السياسي تتصاعد، في وقت يستعد فيه لبنان لاستقبال سلسلة من الزيارات التركية والقطرية والأوروبية، بما يعكس انتقاله إلى موقع متقدم على أجندة الترتيبات الإقليمية الجارية، وليس مجرد ساحة لتلقي نتائجها.

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Richard Nagel
Richard Nagel@RichardDNagel·
@BeirutCalling What does the Lebanese lobby in DC ultimately want? Based on my superficial knowledge of who these people are, I would hazard a guess that they want to be in a position to privatize Lebanon’s national assets and be given carte blanche for investments in tourism/banking.
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Michael Young@BeirutCalling·
@sareemakdisi Unless you haven’t heard, they have already claimed Cyprus as theirs.
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