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Makdisi Street

"The war in Lebanon is existential" w/ Hala Jaber

Makdisi Street

Bayt al Makdisi

News, Politics

4.9643 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

The brothers are joined by the award-winning Lebanese investigative journalist Hala Jaber (@HalaJaber) to discuss the ongoing Israeli war on Lebanon in the context of the US-Israeli war on Iran, the timing of the unexpectedly strong re-emergence of Hizballah following 15 months of Israeli violations of the Nov 2024 ceasefire, the humanitarian catastrophe and displacement of hundreds of thousands from the south and the suburbs of Beirut, and the reasons for the Lebanese government's unprecedented decision to outlaw Hizbullah military and security parts even as Israel prepared for invasion.

Date of recording: Mar 11, 2026

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0:01.9

Israel this time, meaning Israel and the U.S. this time are determined.

0:06.6

This is, I think, look, this war is existential for Lebanon and for Hezbollah, for Israel, for Iran, not so much for the U.S.

0:15.8

So, oh, the main fronts are fighting.

0:18.4

This is a war of their own survival.

0:31.1

Whichever way you want to categorize their survival, you know, whether it's arms or country or state or sovereignty or government or rule or regime, whichever.

0:35.1

For these three, it is a war of survival.

0:42.3

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of the Magdisci Street podcast. I'm Karim and I'm joined as usual with my brothers, Sari and Osama who are in California.

0:48.3

Before we start this episode, I just want to do another pitch to remind everybody to if you could support us.

0:55.9

If you're enjoying the show, please do support us with Patreon. You can go to the patreon.com website

1:01.4

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1:11.7

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1:21.3

but really to help the algorithm,

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help others find this show.

1:26.1

So this would be really appreciated thank you and thank

1:28.7

you for everybody for your for your constant support and for all the comments

1:32.3

and hopefully we will have be having a it's some kind of live show or some kind of

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