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Israel’s history of assassinating Palestinian leaders in Beirut dates back to the 1970s when some sought refuge in the Lebanese capital. Over the years, the methods employed in these operations have evolved from gunfire and bombings to the use of aircraft and drones, as suspected, in the assassination of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday evening. The first targeted assassination by Israel in Lebanon was that of the Palestinian novelist and politician Ghassan Kanafani.

The assassinations bear the marks of an Israeli operation. But the timing might also be about Israeli domestic politics.

The Palestinian people have been waiting for a moment to shake the earth underneath the Israeli army. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News  U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, trying to appear sensitive, claim that Hamas does not speak for the Palesti

The summer of 1982 was turbulent in Beirut and for the Palestinian resistance. Besieged by Israeli forces, the Palestinian resistance in the Lebanese capital realized that it had no other choice than to leave the city.

Amid the presidential vacuum in Lebanon and against the backdrop of armies’ experiences of power in the Arab world and even across the Third World, some Lebanese recall a phenomenon called Fouad Chehab. This man, who passed away 50 years ago — on April 25, 1973 — at the age of 71, embodied numerous qualities and contradicting dimensions. He was the descendant of an Arab family