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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).

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Replacing Ortagus with...Joel Rayburn would not signal Trump moving away from the extremist, pro-war camp aligned with Netanyahu's government. Quite the contrary.

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A U.S. consulting group abandons the train wreck of the Gaza so-called humanitarian assistance program, which has already led to the death of a number of Palestinians, apparently shot by Israeli soldiers: washingtonpost.com/national-secur


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Actually, here is the Reuters story: reuters.com/world/middle-e
. And here is the NYT story: nytimes.com/2025/06/03/wor
. And in the The Washington Post piece, the ICRC is also cited as a source for the 27 dead. The IDF itself, according to the Post, said it was “investigating an incident

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Back to square one: Lebanon's local elections have taken the country in the wrong direction - thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen
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As the Middle East advances, Lebanon is at risk of being left behind, as its political factionalism and the special interests of the country's many cartels block avenues for change. Mine for The National Comment: thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen


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Israel for the past six months: we will work to prevent the new Syrian government from having any authority in the south Israel, yesterday: why doesn't the new Syrian government have any authority in the south? timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry


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Truly astonishing, sick dialogue between an Israeli doctor and Israel parliamentarians. When the doctor says, "I think that even everyone sitting around this table doesn't want a suffering child to be unable to receive painkillers or minimal medical treatment," she gets pushback

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CNN has just published this important piece: A CNN investigation into a deadly incidentnear an aid distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their way to the fenced enclosure to get

CNN has just published this important piece:

A CNN investigation into a deadly incidentnear an aid distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their way to the fenced enclosure to get
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Which just comes to prove, given Israel’s intention to continue the battle, that the real aim is, as it has always been, to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population by making the territory completely unlivable and killing ever more people.

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This article seems to have it about right: the so-called humanitarian plan in Gaza is mainly about luring hungry civilians into an active war zone, where the Israeli army can then kill them. As one individual put it: “These centers are killing fields disguised as aid distribution

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Scoop: The CEO of Boston Consulting Group apologized to staff and admitted “process failures” in the company’s decision to help design and run the controversial Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that supplanted the work of the UN to deliver aid to Gaza. W/ Cate Brown

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As much as I like Tudor, I can’t see him as the promoter of what Juve needs the most today: a complete rethinking of the team and a multiyear plan that can integrate and stabilize new talent. Motta was brought in to do such a thing and ultimately failed, but the imperative hasn’t

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A cop fires a rubber bullet at a female Australian journalist as she finishes her report. No surprise U.S. police kill so many people every year. No accountability. washingtonpost.com/video/national


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Mansour’s Ice Cream: A Century of Lebanese Tradition in Jounieh For ice cream aficionados, Lebanon is a land of frozen delights, where global influences and local ingenuity converge. You’ll find creamy Italian gelato and American ice cream, but it’s Lebanese ice cream—or Arabic

Mansour’s Ice Cream: A Century of Lebanese Tradition in Jounieh

For ice cream aficionados, Lebanon is a land of frozen delights, where global influences and local ingenuity converge. You’ll find creamy Italian gelato and American ice cream, but it’s Lebanese ice cream—or Arabic