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The framework agreement Lebanon-Israel, a capitulation to multiple threats

Joseph Daher — 2026-07-04T08:26:50Z

Following the fragile memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, on 26 June 2026 the Lebanese and Israeli governments signed, with the sponsorship of the United States, “a framework agreement”. In addition to representing a capitulation to US and Israeli political interests, this “agreement”, in its conclusion, threatens to transform the Lebanese state into a security subcontractor of Tel Aviv and thus deepen both political and sectarian tensions in the country.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Israel, Lebanon

Palestine and Lebanon are burning

Édouard Soulier — 2026-07-02T14:55:21Z

Despite the ceasefires proclaimed, Israel continues its attacks in Gaza and Lebanon. Security Minister Ben Gvir's declarations calling for the “burning of Lebanon” openly express the logic of erasure at work, as part of a project of total regional domination.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Palestine, Israel, Lebanon

War Ecology

R.S. — 2026-04-21T09:30:49Z

The Palestinian Olive Council estimates that approximately one million olive trees have been destroyed in Gaza.The World Bank estimates that the war on Lebanon generated approximately 22 million tonnes of waste.

- Features / Palestine, Ecology and the Environment, Lebanon

Living conditions and resistance in Lebanon

Nicolas Dot-Pouillard — 2026-04-21T09:26:56Z

“Nevertheless, there is today a left-wing sensibility in Lebanon, anti-imperialist, opposed to the occupation and which has concrete effects on the ground, limited but nevertheless real. It is trying to build something, in particular what could be called a form of civil resistance.”

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Israel, Lebanon

Zionist expansionism in Lebanon seizes upon Hezbollah as a pretext

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-04-01T16:18:00Z

Never had a military initiative of the Lebanese Hezbollah (literally, Party of God) been so much repudiated in Lebanon as its decision on March 2 to launch rockets across the country's southern border with the Israeli state, in retaliation against the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This opening salvo was immediately seized upon by the Zionist state as a pretext to launch a long-premeditated invasion of southern Lebanon.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Israel, Lebanon

Lebanon's Sovereignty Battle Isn't Just Over Arms

Joseph Daher, Sami Atallah, Sami Zoughaib — 2025-08-21T15:00:06Z

“When citizens see the state not as an enforcer but as a guarantor of rights, Lebanon will have moved from asserting sovereignty to constructing it.”

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Lebanon

Georges has returned, Ziad has left us!

Nicolas Dot-Pouillard — 2025-08-05T09:39:21Z

On 25 July 2025, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, finally released, returned to his native Lebanon where he was welcomed as a hero. The next morning, Ziad Rahbani, musician, theatre and radio personality, son of the legendary couple Fairouz and Assi Rahbani, took his last breath in a hospital in the Hamra district of Beirut. The Lebanese – and Arab – left is moving from euphoria to tears.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Lebanon

Israel does not want peace!

Édouard Soulier — 2024-12-14T10:08:03Z

The United States said it could impose a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel. This was declared on 29 November for a period of 60 days. Just long enough for Biden to say that he had ‘done the job' and hand over to Trump at the end of January. An inglorious end to the reign of ‘Genocide Joe', who has spent the entire year supporting, arming and ultimately encouraging Israel's genocidal escalation.

- IV599 - December 2024 / United States (USA), Israel, Lebanon

Where is Syria headed?

Gilbert Achcar — 2024-12-11T08:36:04Z

While observing the amazing historical events that unfolded since last Friday, the first thing that came to mind was relief and joy at the images of detainees being freed from the hell of the carceral society that Syria had become under the Assad family's regime. Our feelings were also overwhelmed by delight at the sight of Syrian families suddenly able to return from nearby exile, whether from another area within Syria or from Jordan, Lebanon or Turkey, to visit the towns and homes they were forced to flee from years ago. Add to this that the dream of millions of Syrian refugees, in the countries surrounding Syria and in Europe, of returning to their homeland, even if only for a visit, this dream that looked impossible a few days ago, has begun to seem achievable.

- IV599 - December 2024 / United States (USA), Syria, Russia, Israel, Iran, Lebanon

Solidarity with Palestine and the Struggle from Below

Joseph Daher — 2024-11-28T09:43:00Z

Joseph Daher, author of a recent book, Palestine and Marxism, writes that amid drawn-out suffering in Palestine and Lebanon, we should not despair. He argues that resistance from below against our own complicit states offers a way forward.

- IV598 - November 2024 / Turkey, Israel, Iran, Lebanon