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February 11, 2021

What the West Can Learn from Lokman Slim, the Lebanese Journalist Who Was Murdered for Standing Up to Hizballah

A man who could not be bought, without fear, and with something to say.

One week ago, Lokman Slim—a Lebanese writer, publisher, and activist—was found shot dead in his car, undoubtedly murdered by operatives of the Iran-backed Hizballah terrorist group. Alberto M. Fernandez, who met Slim while serving as an American diplomat in the Middle East, remembers him as a man who “combined three extremely powerful, rare, and—for Hizballah—dangerous personal attributes: he was a man who could not be bought; he was a man without fear; and he was a man with something to say.” Moreover, writes Fernandez, there is much the West can learn from Slim’s life:

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