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aBAALBEK, LEBANON - NOVEMBER 4: People drive past damage to the ancient western gate of Baalbek Citadel and the Gouraud Barracks area of the city that was damaged in the past week by Israeli airstrikes on November 4, 2024 in Baalbek, Lebanon. Israel has increasingly targeted Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek and the surrounding Bekaa valley, considered a bastion of Hezbollah support. Earlier this week, Israel ordered residents of Baalbek and neighboring towns to evacuate before a new wave of strikes. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images)BAALBEK, LEBANON - NOVEMBER 4: <> on November 4, 2024 in Baalbek, Lebanon. Israel has increasingly targeted Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek and the surrounding Bekaa valley, considered a bastion of Hezbollah support. Earlier this week, Israel ordered residents of Baalbek and neighboring towns to evacuate before a new wave of strikes. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images)

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Trump’s Would-Be Lebanon Whisperer

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The Saudi–Iranian Détente Has Proved Vital for De-escalation. But Regional War Could Still Break It.

BEIRUT, LEBANON - OCTOBER 14: People sleep in the open in Martyrs' Square where they are sheltering after being displaced by the ongoing conflict with Israel, on October 14, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. Around 1.2 million people are believed to have been displaced by the ongoing conflict as the Israeli military expands its military operations across Lebanon. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

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The United States Should Stop Cosponsoring Israel’s War on Lebanon

BEIRUT,LEBANON APRIL 28: The headquarters building of Lebanon Electricity company (EDL) from outside on April 28, 2022 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon's state-owned Electricite du Liban (EDL), generating 90% of the country's electricity production, transmission and distribution activities, provided a quote of 16 million USD to the government for half a day's worth of power at polling stations for the country's critical vote on May 15.(photo by Marwan Tahtah/Getty images)

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International Aid Keeps Lebanon Afloat. It Could Also Be Destroying Its Institutions.

The headquarters building of Électricité du Liban on April 28, 2022. The beleaguered utility’s building was damaged by the Beirut Port blast almost two years earlier. Source: Marwan Tahtah/Getty images

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Adopt a Ministry: How Foreign Aid Threatens Lebanon’s Institutions

BEIRUT, LEBANON - AUGUST 02: An aerial view at dusk of the Mar Mikhael neighborhood near the port during a power outage on August 2, 2021 in Beirut, Lebanon. Electricite du Liban (EDL) warned against more drastic measures of rationing electricity that could completely interrupt the supply of current, if it fails to finance its operations. EDL issued the warning

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How Lebanon’s Elites Sabotaged an IMF Rescue