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The article analyses the break between Moussa Sadr's national vision and the regional orientation embodied by Hezbollah. He describes a major doctrinal overthrow within Lebanese Shiism, where integration into the state would have given way to a transnational logic, deeply redefining the role of Lebanon today.

Lebanon is no longer threatened with collapse: it has already fallen. In the face of a state emptied of its substance, territorial fragmentation and the influence of external influences, the issue is no longer the return to the past, but the pragmatic construction of a new political balance, without sinking into violent dislocation.

In this time of Easter, it is difficult to address simple vows as if the world were going well, as if our region were not overwhelmed, as if the peoples of the Middle East had not crossed, once again, their share of fire, mourning and anguish. However, it may be precisely in such moments that these words must be said. Happy Easter. Not by convenience. But because we must continue to wish the light where the darkness has settled too long.

Map of Lebanon: analysis of the OCHA snapshot showing the spread of conflict, displacement and humanitarian pressure.

In southern Lebanon, the destruction of cemeteries feeds the fear of territorial and identity erasure beyond military logic.

Since the end of March, Israeli leaders have been talking no more about repelling Hezbollah. They describe a project to control southern Lebanon up to Litani, with the destruction of border villages, the ban on return for hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and, among some officials, the assumption of speeches on a new Israeli border. Compared to 1978 and 1982, this strategy marks a break: once supported by the ALS and a local facade, the occupation envisaged today appears more direct, more territorial and closer to a logic of annexation.

Good Friday invites silence, recollection and humility in the face of suffering. In a Lebanon affected by crises, deer and war, this day recalls a simple demand: to stay close to the wounded, the forgotten and the most vulnerable, without ever giving up the inner hope.

By threatening Iran's bridges, power plants and vital networks, Washington puts a simple question in the foreground: how far can we destroy without leaving the law? For Lebanon, there was nothing in this debate. It refers to a specific memory: that of hit civilian infrastructure and a population taken in vice.

Donald Trump attacks Emmanuel Macron on the personal ground, in the midst of a crisis between Washington and Paris around Iran and d-Ormuz.

More and more countries are rationing petrol. In France, stations are broken. In Indonesia, civil servants go to telework.

Trump struggles to finance the war with Iran between appeal to Arab countries and growing resistance to the US Senate.

Holy Sepulchre: Why the absence of Palm Mass in Jerusalem goes beyond the incident and touches the very heart of the Christian faith.

The Lebanese-Israeli border concentrates four Israeli visions mixing pragmatism, strategy, religious memory and biblical imagination. From Litani to Awali to the controversial concept of Greater Israel, these competing readings shed light on tensions around Lebanese sovereignty, Hezbollah and a border that is constantly redefined by conflicts.

The major sea straits, from Ormuz to Taiwan, concentrate a decisive part of world trade, energy and technology. Their vulnerability makes them major geopolitical levers: at the slightest block, costs are exploding, supply chains are growing and the global economy is squandering as a result of a local incident.