At a time when the people in Lebanon are groaning under suffocating economic burdens, the Council of Ministers comes out with a decision to increase the tax on gasoline by 300,000 liras per can, and to increase the value-added tax known as VAT by 1%, bringing it in total to 12%, under the title of funding an increase in public sector salaries by 800 million dollars!

In a recent Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio revived the familiar rhetoric of “radical Islam,” expansionist Caliphates, and threats to the West. His comments not only echo two decades of post-9/11 messaging but also reveal something deeper - an underlying fear of a powerful united Muslim world.

After two years of genocide in Gaza, and the inferno whose fire devoured the bodies of children while they were alive, and the destruction that suffocated breaths beneath the rubble, and the famine that gnawed at bodies until they withered, the Security Council held a session in which it voted on a draft resolution supporting the plan of the criminal Trump.

The plight of the people of Gabes, who have become among the most affected by cancer and other diseases and epidemics caused by the chemical complex imposed on their city since 1972...