Lebanon

The Bible's lists of ancient peoples are theological claims, not census records — and the Hittites are two entirely different peoples wearing one n...

A wax pencil drawn across a 1948 map became Jerusalem's binding border. Ghajar's line is precise but unmarked. What makes a border real?

What pan-Arabism actually claims, why it isn't the umma, and why 22 members can't stop sanctioning each other.

Tunisian olive oil with French labels, Iranian rugs in Jerusalem shops — how goods actually move around sanctions and enemy-state bans.

What border fences are actually built for — and why a steel barrier that took years to engineer was cut through in minutes.

What actually happens when a country rehearses its own worst day? Inside the surprise, the planning, and the October 7 lessons reshaping Israeli dr...

Hannah's question: what would Israel look like if it had stayed under Jewish rule for 2,000 years — and was antisemitism structural or circumstantial?

Six churches share Jerusalem's holiest sites — and none can move a chair without the other five agreeing. Here's how that happened.

A Maltese-registered Arkia plane and Tunisian olive oil at Osher Ad turn out to share one mechanism: the legal costume of nationality.

Sleeper trains, cargo ships, and vehicle relocation — the surprising alternatives to flying that already exist.

Inside the Jerusalem camp that's within the city limits but beyond the barrier — taxed by the city, policed by no one.

Egypt declared terrorism over in North Sinai in 2023. The NSC still rates the peninsula level four. What's actually left?