Lebanon and Palestine’s border was never natural — Britain carved it through colonial deals, Zionist pressure, and biblical fantasies

For most readers in the United Kingdom, the line separating Lebanon from what was then Mandatory Palestine appears as a distant, static feature of ‘Middle Eastern’ geography. Yet this border—finalised in April 1924—was anything but inevitable. It emerged from eight turbulent years of diplomacy, rivalry, miscalculation, and competing national projects. What might seem like a […]

By Mohammad Fakih

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