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The Cartel in the Costume of a Country
The choice between resistance and sovereignty is a trap: Hezbollah and its rivals keep each other alive while the state remains the missing thing.
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The Rubble Zone
A buffer made of emptied villages can move the line of danger, but it also turns houses, orchards, roads, and schools into evidence for the next war.