Fred Maroun, at The Blogs

Oct 7, 2024, 8:58 PM

I am writing this on October 7, 2024, but for Jews, it is still October 7, 2023, and it will continue to be for a while yet. As an Arab, there is nothing to say about October 7 in...

Sep 29, 2024, 6:52 PM

The Lebanese government should grow a spine

With parts of Lebanon starting to look a lot like Gaza, it is time the Lebanese government grew a spine and did its job to protect the Lebanese people. That involves three steps: Start telling the truth about Hezbollah...

Sep 27, 2024, 12:37 AM

The Lebanese government and its backers are responsible for the war

The 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah was ended with United Nations Security Council resolution 1701. It was a good plan in theory, but in practice, a plan is only as good as its implementation. The Lebanese government and...

Sep 24, 2024, 6:36 AM

The purest form of self-defense

While the Lebanese puppet government complains to the United Nations about what they call “Israeli aggression on Lebanon”, as a Lebanese person, I tell you that every Lebanese person who isn’t brainwashed to hate Jews knows that Lebanese Prime...

Sep 18, 2024, 9:40 PM

My fellow Lebanese, don’t be fooled by Hezbollah yet again

Many of you are angry by what happened yesterday with exploding pagers in Lebanon. Twelve people were killed, thousands were injured, there was panic and chaos, and the hospitals were overwhelmed. This incident has been widely attributed to Israel...

Aug 21, 2024, 9:22 PM

In the West, the LGBT movement is dead

First, let me acknowledge that I am too old or perhaps too lazy to look up the latest combination of letters, digits, and special characters used in place of the good old LGBT abbreviation. And frankly, I don’t care....

Jun 12, 2024, 11:25 PM

The West can no longer identify evil

The West’s reaction to the wars imposed on Israel is sometimes bewildering. They seem to not understand that Israel is doing its best under extremely difficult circumstances. One is tempted to attribute this ignorance to antisemitism, and that is likely...

May 31, 2024, 7:21 PM

As long as the false Palestinian narrative remains, there is no day after

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that “continued Israeli refusal to advance a viable plan for the post-war management of Gaza will lead to a never-ending war in the enclave”. His warning seems to imply that there is...

Apr 30, 2024, 8:28 PM

The Jewish state will come out of this war stronger than ever

In Hamas, Israel is fighting the worst evil that Jews have ever faced. One should never lightly claim that anything is worse than Nazism, but it is fair to say that Hamas has surpassed Nazism in its evil. Nazis had...

Apr 4, 2024, 11:50 PM

Israelis should be proud

As we are approaching the six months mark since the massacre and kidnappings committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Israelis are more conflicted than ever about the ongoing war, and world criticism is at its highest so far. An...

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Fred Maroun is a Canadian of Arab origin who lived in Lebanon until 1984, including during 10 years of civil war. Fred supports Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state and to defend itself. Fred supports a liberal and democratic Middle East where all religions and nationalities co-exist in peace with each other, and where human rights are respected. Fred is an atheist, a social liberal, and an advocate of equal rights for LGBT people everywhere.

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