The question, at least in part, is whether it is right to draw the foregone conclusion that Hezbollah can dictate to the Lebanese government.
Call me naive, but I hang onto the immortal injunction to "give peace a chance."
Where there's a will there's a way.
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"While the French proposal could serve as a basis for negotiations, Lebanese and Israeli officials say an agreement will be difficult without strong American leadership."
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"The proposal would have Lebanon declare that it is prepared to open negotiations on a permanent non-aggression agreement with Israel.
Such an agreement would be signed within two months and would end the formal state of war between the two countries"
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[Under the proposed agreement] "the Lebanese government would commit to preventing attacks against Israel from its territory and to implementing its own plan to disarm Hezbollah and ban its military activity."
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"Driving the news:
[noises out of Israel threatening what] could be the largest Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon since 2006, dragging the country to the center of the escalating war with Iran."
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"The Lebanese government has accepted the plan as a basis for peace talks
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Israel and the U.S. are reviewing the proposal."
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"The French government has drafted a proposal to end the war in Lebanon that would require the Lebanese government to take the unprecedented step of recognizing Israel"
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www.axios.com/2026/03/14/i...
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"Over 1,400 people have been killed and 18,000 injured in Iran since the start of the US-Israeli war against the country on February 28.
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According to a recent Ipsos poll [of adults of age 18+], only 27% of the US public supports the attacks on Iran."
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/13/t...
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
“[The Israelis] are not after security, they are after more land.
So as long as they don’t give up this idea, there will always be a war in the Middle East.”
— Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan
apnews.com/article/turk...
They’ve found another immigrant tragically dead on the street after being released from ICE custody.
My latest piece for Substack:
substack.com/@katiephang/...
Gideon Levy says "war fever has taken over the country, with polls showing 93% support for the US-Israeli war in Iran, Lebanon & beyond — at least among the Jewish public.
'As long as the American support is so massive, so blind & so automatic, this will go on'"
www.democracynow.org/2026/3/13/gi...
⚡️NEW from @DropSiteNews : Mass Expulsion in Lebanon as Israel Expands War: “We Don’t Know Where to Go” Israel issued a sweeping displacement order for the entire region south of Litani River as it escalated its bombing campaign across Lebanon. By Lylla Younes
⚡️NEW: Mass Expulsion in Lebanon as Israel Expands War: “We Don’t Know Where to Go”
Israel issued a sweeping displacement order for the entire region south of Litani River as it escalated...
By Lylla Younes
www.dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-hezbollah-army-israel-war-displacement-litani-river-beirut
The vast majority of southern Lebanon is now under displacement orders by the Israeli military. That is approximately 15% of the country, says reporter Lylla Younes from Beirut.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/13/lebanon_lylla_younes
"The difficulty of upholding international law, and the limits of its scope, are no reason to jettison it."
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"As Dr Tamer Morris.. U of Sydney notes:
'The purpose of international law is not to determine who is morally good;
it is to maintain order in a world where every state believes it is waging the ‘good’ fight.'"
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"When the Trump administration hit alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean and kidnapped Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, allies said little.
Each time, the belief in international law as an essential framework for conduct was further undermined."
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"That Iran is also committing war crimes does not lessen US or Israeli culpability.
The contrast between the west’s rhetoric about universal standards and its selective outrage is glaringly and increasingly evident to people around the world.
Some lives appear more important than others."
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"Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, in retaliation for Hezbollah attacks defending Iran, are at a minimum disproportionate – as Katja Kallas, the EU foreign affairs chief, has implied – with vast civilian displacement and damage to infrastructure."
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"The same countries have been strikingly muted since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran.
[But] this too was an act of aggression."
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"When Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, .. [European leaders] understood the importance of naming what had happened as an illegal act of aggression, and of seeking to hold those responsible accountable."
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Mr. Hegseth vowed that U.S. forces would allow 'no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.'
To give 'no quarter' means to continue to attack an enemy who is wounded and out of the fight, a violation of international law."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
"Theoretically, the location of tech infrastructure shouldn’t be as constrained as that of oil and gas, but as AI begins to expand on a large scale, the enormous data centers it relies on have become concentrated to make the massive supply of energy and connectivity they require more efficient."
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"'Tehran didn’t choose these targets at random,' says Mohammed Soliman, a sr fellow at the Middle East Institute
'Data centers are the backbone of the Gulf’s post-oil economic strategy, and Iran knows it.. [so] attacking them was an attempt to sow doubt about whether the Gulf is a safe bet.'"
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"Iranian attacks against the digital ecosystems of its Arab neighbors in the Persian Gulf are considered among the first military actions of their kind in the world, and have exposed new vulnerabilities in these countries..."
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"[A]n Amazon data center in the UAE [& elsewhere were] struck by a drone...
Since Amazon is the preferred partner of many companies and governments in the region, the attacks caused immediate disruptions"
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