Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule - Seaso...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Treasury Department designated Hezbollah operative Amer Mohamed Akil Rada for coordinating the activities of various commercial enterprises for Hezbollah, including charcoal exports from Colombia to Lebanon. Rada previously helped case targets for Hez ... Show More

An innocent looking hit-and-run accident in downtown Bangkok in 1994 uncovered a sophisticated Hezbollah network in Thailand, an attempt to target the Israeli embassy there, and a decomposing body hidden in a vat full of chemical explosives. Two decades later, a new string of Hez ... Show More

In 2008, Azerbaijani authorities thwarted a Hezbollah plot to target an Israeli Independence Day celebration and kidnap the Israeli ambassador in Baku. Two Hezbollah operatives were arrested, tried, and convicted, but the group was not deterred by this setback. By 2011, Hezbollah ... Show More

Discussion on Hezbollah, the Syrian regime and political impunity in Lebanon begins at 16:45. Nizar and Timour are joined this week by political researcher and commentator Ziad Majed to discuss the lack of accountability over political assassinations in Lebanon, the differences b ... Show More

<p>Frontalier d’Israël et abritant le Hezbollah pro palestinien, le Liban va-t-il connaître une troisième guerre&nbsp;? Dans «&nbsp;La Story&nbsp;», le podcast d’actualité des «&nbsp;Echos&nbsp;», Pierrick Fay et Nicolas Barré reviennent sur les risques d’embrasement au Moyen-Or ... Show More

<p>Israel has just bombed Beirut, killing senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri. But Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has already promised retaliation if Israel bombs Lebanese capital. Does regional war beckon - and how catastrophic could that be? What of the media's continued r ... Show More

Hezbollah and sanctions begins at 18:04. In the seventh episode of The Lebanese Politics Podcast, presenters Benjamin Redd and Nizar Hassan talk about what's happened in the past week, including parliamentary appointments of the speaker and his deputy, why Saad Hariri, whose part ... Show More

<p>There has been an abject failure to accurately reflect the horror of Israel's massacre of Gaza - but the truth cannot be completely suppressed.</p><p>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast">http://supporter.ac ... Show More

The leader of Hezbollah, the Lebanese organisation proscribed in the US and UK as a terror group, delivers his first public comments on the war between Israel and Hamas, delivering threats both to Israel and America.Also on today's podcast the speedy conviction of the fallen so-c ... Show More

In the first episode of The Lebanese Politics Podcast, presenters Benjamin Redd and Nizar Hassan introduce listeners to the complex ins and outs of the Lebanese political system and the issues that will be in play in the run up to the first Lebanese parliamentary elections for al ... Show More

In June 1982, Israeli tanks rolled over the Lebanese border. Soon after, Iran sent 1,500 Revolutionary Guards into Lebanon to help fight them. Thereafter, funded by Iran but largely manned by Lebanese Shi’ites, Hezbollah established itself as the most powerful militia in Lebanon ... Show More

<p>Demonising protesters against Israel's onslaught has led - inevitably - to an anti-Muslim firestorm.</p><p>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast">http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast</a>.</p><hr> ... Show More