Lebanon paid its dues to the Palestinian cause, now it must attend to its own wounds

Who opened the VIP lounge at Beirut airport to Ismail Hanieh? This is the same lounge that received the President of France a week before. President Emmanuel Macron came to Lebanon in order to help it get out of the economic and political mess it plunged into. Hanieh is the leader of Hamas, a Palestinian party that owes allegiance to Iran. He came to Lebanon in order to rally the Palestinian refugees and make bombastic statements about Israel and to promise to send precision guided missile to the Jewish state from Lebanon. Yet only a few days earlier the same Hanieh was making conciliatory statements toward Israel...