There has been a lot of suspense and tension ahead of tomorrow’s speech by Hezbollah’s Secretary General, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah.

Some of this week’s developments may be linked to what will be announced tomorrow. A summary first. Over the course of the past week, we have seen a ramping up of the cross-border attacks from Lebanon towards IDF targets. Since Sunday, the 29th of October, there have been 22 official statements put out by Hezbollah, stating that 41 targets have been struck.

One of the biggest fallacies conducted by those who problematise certain controversial events in Islamic history, is that they read these events with presumptions that are embedded in the present conventions of the circulation of knowledge, in addition to back-projecting the… …customs of how life today is lived, and how people react to the reporting/occurence of such events.

When one comes to understand that populations were nowhere near as large, city densities were lower, that the demographics were vastly different, that modes of transportation…