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July 19, 2021

Iran is Responsible for the Slow Death of Lebanon

Collapsing currency, shortages, and political crisis, brought on by Hizballah.

On Thursday, Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s prime minister-designate, stepped down, bringing a long-simmering political crisis to a head. The next day, there were riots in Tripoli over shortages of fuel, electricity, and medicine, while the Lebanese pound, which has rapidly been losing value, hit on a new low. The central bank is meanwhile heading towards collapse and a potentially devastating new wave of the coronavirus threatens. Jonathan Spyer asks the obvious question:

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July 19, 2021

  1. In the Age of Missiles, Defensible Borders Are More Important Than Ever

    Israel’s unwritten national-security doctrine.

  2. Iran is Responsible for the Slow Death of Lebanon

    Collapsing currency, shortages, and political crisis, brought on by Hizballah.

  3. How the Law Can Stop Those Who Are Keeping Jews from Keeping Shabbat

    “Too many of those types of Jews.”

  4. The Sewing Poet Who Thought He Could Break through the Limits of Mortality

    A story.

  5. From the Auschwitz Orchestra to a German Hip-Hop Group

    Esther Bejerano, in memoriam.