For today, a link to commentary from the Cradle, followed by a 2008 map from Encyclopedia Britannica; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names as highlighted. (SYRIA, WEST BANK, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.  LEBANON 3-1-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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FROM FEB. 25  The funeral that sealed Hezbollah’s unbreakable covenant, by Pepe Escobar | The Cradle  BEIRUT — It’s about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23. Inside Beirut’s vast Sports City Stadium, at least 100,000 people clad in black and draped in yellow resistance flags pay their respects as the caskets of the late Hezbollah secretary-generals Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine begin . . . READ MORE . . .

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