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      <title>Meet the media and militiamen funded by \u2018Lebanese AIPAC
        Guy\u2019 pushing Beirut into Israel's hands</title>
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        Lebanese banker Antoun Sehnaoui is the man behind the curtain of
        Beirut's normalization talks with Israel.</div>
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                        pushing Beirut into Israel's hands</a></h1>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><strong>Above:</strong><span>
                          Antoun Sehnaoui with his girlfriend, former US
                          envoy to Lebanon Morgan Ortagus, at the
                          Holocaust Memorial Museum this April</span></em></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>As
                        the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern
                        Lebanon continues, the fabulously wealthy
                        banker-turned-\u201dphilanthropist\u201d Antoun Sehnaoui
                        has assembled a network of business and media
                        operatives \u2013 and a fascist Christian goon squad
                        \u2013 in Beirut and Washington dedicated to doing
                        Israel\u2019s dirty work.</strong><span><br>
                        <br>
                        <span>In late July, Lebanese daily </span></span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4d5248ee-7b34-4599-8098-84a0dc351d6d?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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                          exposed</span></a><span> a wealthy banking
                        heir named Antoun Sehnaoui as a driving force
                        behind recent efforts to push the country to
                        normalize relations with Israel as the apartheid
                        state continues to occupy hundreds of square
                        miles of southern Lebanon.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>According
                        to L\u2019Orient, Sehnaoui is now actively seeking to
                        manipulate Lebanese public opinion by lavishly
                        funding local outlets including French-speaking
                        Ici Beyrouth, English-language This Is Beirut,
                        and Hunna Lubnan in Arabic. The report also
                        built on local reports indicating the mysterious
                        Sehnaoui has been wielding a fascist Christian
                        militia to protect his banking empire and
                        reputation.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>After
                        photos emerged in late July showing the
                        financier cavorting with Israeli Prime Minister
                        and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu at
                        a private gathering in Washington DC, Sehnaoui
                        has been publicly denounced by his uncle as a
                        willing tool of Israel. While currently wanted
                        for questioning by law enforcement in Lebanon,
                        where publicly associating with Israelis is
                        punishable by law, Sehnaoui has emerged as the
                        man behind the curtain of the Lebanese
                        government, injecting money and manpower into
                        Beirut\u2019s dangerous theater of normalization with
                        Israel.</span></p>
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                      Antoun Sehnaoui faces Israeli PM Benjamin
                      Netanyahu across at table at DC\u2019s Four Seasons
                      hotel on July 27, 2026[/caption]</p>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;overflow-wrap: break-word;word-break: keep-all;font-size: calc(1.375em * 1);"><strong>The
                        banker and the convert</strong></h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Long
                        before his debut as a public proponent of
                        Zionism, Antoun Sehnaoui was known across
                        Lebanon for both his tremendous wealth and his
                        tendency to serve as a kingmaker among the
                        right-wing parties catering to Lebanon\u2019s
                        Christian minority. When Lebanon\u2019s economy
                        collapsed in 2019 after it became clear that the
                        country\u2019s banking class had effectively been
                        running a state-sponsored pyramid scheme,
                        Sehnaoui emerged as the face of an amoral
                        Lebanese elite that managed to squirrel over $15
                        billion out of the country by using their
                        connections with Lebanon\u2019s central bank. While
                        ordinary Lebanese residents were turned away
                        from branches empty-handed, it emerged that
                        billions were being funneled abroad via the
                        Sehnaoui-owned Banque Richelieu France bank.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Since
                        then, Sehnaoui has become romantically involved
                        with US President Donald Trump\u2019s former Special
                        Representative for Lebanon, Morgan Ortagus.
                        Ortagus, a formerly evangelical Christian
                        convert to Judaism, is a fanatical Zionist who </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2238bcc2-cc54-47bf-a0be-059daac5165d?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>flaunts her
                          ideology</span></a><span> with her choices of
                        jewelry.</span><span> </span><span>In late
                        2024, after being chosen to serve as Trump\u2019s
                        envoy to Lebanon by Steve Witkoff, Ortagus </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/af7ffdcd-7bdf-4d50-99bd-904f16c9e792?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>suggested to
                          Israeli military leaders</span></a><span> that
                        they attack the 2024 funeral of assassinated
                        Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah at
                        the Sports City stadium in Beirut. Israel
                        ultimately decided to stage an intimidating
                        overflight of the funeral rather than launch an
                        attack that would have killed thousands of
                        civilians.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>This
                        April in Washington DC, in the midst of talks
                        between Lebanon and Israel, Ortagus introduced
                        Sehnaoui at the Holocaust Memorial Museum\u2019s
                        \u201cRemembrance Day,\u201d where Sehnaoui\u2019s name was
                        inscribed on the institution\u2019s Donor Wall. In
                        revealing comments, Ortagus praised Sehnaoui\u2019s
                        family as \u201ccommitted Christian Zionists\u201d who had
                        \u201ctrained [him] to be a supporter of the state of
                        Israel and the Jewish people.\u201d She then
                        volunteered her opinion that \u201cwhat Antoun
                        [Sehnaoui] is doing today is technically illegal
                        in Lebanon.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>One
                        of the Lebanese lawyers who sought an arrest
                        warrant for Sehnaoui after his meeting in DC
                        with Netanyahu this July </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/56168763-f5ae-4cd0-9529-9a3afde1ee7b?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>stated</span></a><span>
                        that Sehnaoui is now credibly accused of
                        conspiring to force the country to submit to
                        Israel\u2019s will \u201cusing the money that the Lebanese
                        people have been robbed of from the banks.\u201d</span></p>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;overflow-wrap: break-word;word-break: keep-all;font-size: calc(1.375em * 1);"><strong>Dawn
                        of a media empire</strong></h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span><span>A
                          review of the media ventures uncovered by
                          L\u2019Orient confirms that Sehnaoui\u2019s empire of
                          media outlets are little more than
                          thinly-disguised pro-Israel propaganda mills.
                          Many of This Is Beirut\u2019s employees openly
                          moonlight at Israeli influence vehicles like
                          the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
                          (FDD) and the Washington Institute for
                          Near-East Policy (WINEP).</span><br>
                        <br>
                        <span>Chief among them is columnist Hussain
                          Abdul-Hussain, a former Shiite Muslim who
                          first came to prominence as the face of
                          Alhurra Iraq, a US-funded Arabic satellite
                          network launched by Washington to promote
                          Western-aligned narratives in Iraq following
                          their catastrophic invasion. Abdul-Hussain
                          also works as a so-called \u201cresearch fellow\u201d at
                          FDD, which was </span></span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/3e0f3b1f-01da-4643-8321-2064d8dd87f9?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>revealed by a
                          senior Israeli military-intelligence official</span></a><span>
                        in 2017 to be a co-conspirator in an Israeli
                        government-led plot to spy on critics of the
                        apartheid regime on American soil.</span><span>
                      </span><span>In fact, FDD emerged out of an
                        organization called EMET, which </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/74ac7e15-75fe-4fd0-b60d-43094596832d?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>outlined</span></a><span>
                        a mission in its founding documents \u201cto enhance
                        Israel\u2019s image in North America.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        tradition of collaboration with Israeli assets
                        appears to have carried over to This Is Beirut,
                        which co-hosted a panel with MIND Israel \u2013 an
                        Israeli \u201cthink tank\u201d founded by former Israeli
                        military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin \u2013 at the
                        2026 Munich Security Conference.</span><span> </span><span>Israeli
                        media </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5dabadb8-4425-4360-ba58-072e13deabe3?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>lauded</span></a><span>
                        the military-industrial summit\u2019s \u201cFirst-ever
                        Lebanese\u2013Israeli civil panel\u201d as a \u201cmeaningful
                        step\u201d towards normalization between the
                        occupying power and its victims.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Founded
                        in 2023 and re-launched in June 2026, This Is
                        Beirut has exploited Sehnaoui\u2019s generous funding
                        to assemble a Zionist dream team of
                        anti-resistance Lebanese Shiites, former US
                        government officials, and devoted pro-Israel
                        influencers and journalists. Its roster includes
                        Seth J. Frantzman, an American-Israeli pundit
                        who works for Israel\u2019s right-wing Jerusalem Post
                        while </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ba339ad1-3e75-4e4c-a1d3-283d7688cb58?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>contributing to FDD</span></a><span>.
                        Sehnaoui\u2019s English-language outlet also acquired
                        its reporter Claudia Groeling from WINEP, a
                        Zionist think tank </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/472407f1-47bf-406b-8c81-c6eec7e5bcaf?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>founded by AIPAC</span></a><span>
                        members to provide an academic veneer to
                        Israel\u2019s aggressive US lobbying efforts.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>This
                        Is Beirut\u2019s </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/cb5db6c9-4972-44e8-b59e-f2eb4dd89acc?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>\u201cAbout\u201d page</span></a><span>
                        makes no mention of Sehnaoui\u2019s role in funding
                        the outlet. Instead, they describe themselves as
                        \u201cindependent and nonpartisan, but not neutral:
                        We do not tolerate violations of human rights,
                        integrity, or the sovereignty of individuals and
                        states.\u201d Their refusal to tolerate violations of
                        sovereignty of states, however, does not appear
                        to apply to the Israeli regime \u2013 which violently
                        occupies approximately 600 square kilometers of
                        sovereign Lebanese territory as of publication.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>When
                        not </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/49fe003f-926c-4288-8e64-502cbc809d38?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>regurgitating IDF
                          press releases</span></a><span>, This Is
                        Beirut frequently gestures towards \u201cpeace\u201d with
                        Israel, a common rhetorical device used by
                        advocates of closer ties between Beirut and Tel
                        Aviv. \u201cWe aspire for Peace between Lebanon and
                        Israel,\u201d they write. Instead of covering the
                        apartheid state\u2019s occupation of southern
                        Lebanon, \u201cwe aim at exposing terrorism\u201d \u2013
                        focusing on what they call \u201cIran\u2019s networks of
                        terror in Lebanon and the region.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        teaser for an </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9cccc2e4-fffd-41be-a50e-aacea498acf4?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>August 4 op-ed</span></a><span>
                        by Abdul-Hussain was especially explicit in
                        lobbying for collaboration with the Israeli
                        military: \u201cWhoever recognizes Hezbollah as the
                        paramount threat should make common cause with
                        whatever force can help dismantle it.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>If
                        the group\u2019s masthead or its self-description
                        left its Zionist leanings in question, a glance
                        at their list of interviewees clears up any
                        remaining doubt. Recent subjects </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2f7368d0-bda6-4b29-bc8f-9acec229f736?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>include</span></a><span>
                        Hagar Chemali, a co-founder of the \u201cLebanon
                        Israel Peace Alliance\u201d and a former US Treasury
                        Department official known for ringing up her
                        erstwhile colleagues to advocate for stronger
                        sanctions on Hezbollah. Chemali has described
                        herself as a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2022fbab-7721-4f95-ad4b-045d476cff11?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>\u201cLebanese Zionist,\u201d</span></a><span>
                        and a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/50e40adf-f420-479b-9d4d-59d7f1f5f0db?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>\u201cgood friend\u201d</span></a><span>
                        of Sehnaoui\u2019s romantic partner, Ortagus.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        mission of bending Beirut to Tel Aviv\u2019s will is
                        shared by the director of This Is Beirut,
                        another anti-resistance Shia named Hanin Ghadar
                        who also moonlights as a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/94cc3047-2df9-424e-a880-b3984f5ecd34?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>\u201csenior fellow\u201d</span></a><span>
                        at WINEP.</span><span> </span><span>As This Is
                        Beirut </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/342ec541-cbfb-4d14-9f4a-6ad1cda43898?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>bragged on social
                          media</span></a><span> in February, \u201cHanin
                        Ghaddar was the second to testify before the
                        U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the
                        Middle East and North Africa during its
                        discussion on Lebanon and the dismantling of
                        Hezbollah.\u201d During the course of her testimony,
                        Ghadar repeatedly urged the US to target the
                        resistance\u2019s \u201cpolitical and economic
                        institutions.\u201d</span></p>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;overflow-wrap: break-word;word-break: keep-all;font-size: calc(1.375em * 1);"><strong>De-banking
                        Lebanon\u2019s working class on Israel\u2019s behalf</strong></h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>While
                        Sehnaoui\u2019s band of media mercenaries made the
                        case for debanking Hezbollah in public, Marco
                        Rubio\u2019s State Department was quietly laying the
                        groundwork for an aggressive push against any
                        Lebanese bank that could plausibly be accused of
                        links to Hezbollah.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>At
                        the top of the list was Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a
                        financial institution known for providing
                        interest-free \u201cbenevolent loans\u201d to Lebanese of
                        all backgrounds \u2013 whether they\u2019re Muslim or not.
                        Just a few months after Israel </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/7f1dd3b7-e1b2-4d62-bb7f-19241f340de7?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>bombed the
                          institution\u2019s branches</span></a><span> in the
                        Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh in March, Washington
                        announced a devastating new sanctions regime
                        intended to destroy the usury-free financial
                        entity once and for all.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>A
                        coordinated campaign was launched to eliminate
                        Al-Qard Al-Hassan, beginning with the June 14
                        declaration by Lebanon\u2019s Justice Ministry
                        announcing an investigation into the charitable
                        institution. Days later, an </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1f06f3bd-156f-410f-b5ce-b7cf5ee4f14c?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>article</span></a><span><span>
                          appeared on the homepage of FDD, the
                          Israel-aligned think tank in DC. \u201cSqueezing
                          Al-Qard Al-Hassan Could Weaken Hezbollah\u2019s
                          Chances of Survival,\u201d FDD promised.</span><br>
                        <br>
                        <span>Two weeks later, the US Treasury\u2019s
                          \u201cTerrorist Financing Targeting Center\u201d
                          appeared to take their cue from FDD, formally
                          declaring over a dozen Lebanese individuals as
                          terror financiers due to their alleged links
                          to Al-Qard Al-Hassan.</span></span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Widely
                        suspected by Lebanese citizens of ratting out
                        Hezbollah-tied groups to the US government,
                        Sehnaoui has made little secret of his intimate
                        connections to the Treasury Department. After
                        first coming into US banking regulators\u2019 orbit
                        when he </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/37ccbdad-44fe-45d3-b9af-80ac5f8217c3?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>invited former Bush
                          Attorney General John Ashcroft</span></a><span>
                        to probe accounts of suspected Hezbollah members
                        at his newly-acquired Lebanese Canadian Bank
                        (LCB) in 2010, Sehnaoui was praised by the
                        Treasury\u2019s then assistant secretary for
                        terrorist financing, Daniel Glaser, as a
                        \u201cresponsible owner.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Sehnaoui
                        would reap the benefits of these relationships
                        for years to come, with Ashcroft offering to
                        represent another of Sehnaoui\u2019s banks, Société
                        Générale de Banque au Liban (SGBL), in US court
                        on numerous occasions. In the years that
                        followed, Daniel Glaser walked through the
                        revolving door of corruption and strode into a
                        plush gig as a \u201csenior adviser\u201d to the bank\u2019s
                        chairman \u2013 Antoun Sehnaoui.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Glaser
                        would later deliver a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1bc63b8c-23b1-4a06-9af3-193e9f3b807a?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>2016 lecture</span></a><span>
                        at WINEP headquarters in Washington in which he
                        declared that \u201cTreasury strives to isolate
                        Hezbollah from the global financial system,\u201d and
                        celebrated that \u201cthe group\u2019s access to the
                        Lebanese financial system has been challenged in
                        a way many never thought possible.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Thus
                        far, there\u2019s no direct proof that Sehnaoui
                        personally wielded his banking and media
                        connections to cripple Al-Qard Al-Hassan\u2019s
                        finances and prevent working Lebanese from
                        accessing zero-interest credit. But the
                        circumstantial evidence traces back to his
                        network of influence.</span></p>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;overflow-wrap: break-word;word-break: keep-all;font-size: calc(1.375em * 1);"><strong>Family
                        dinners, Israeli spies</strong></h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>For
                        the Sehnaoui clan, cozying up to the US and
                        Israel, and working behind the scenes to
                        eliminate their rivals, is a family tradition.
                        According to Antoun\u2019s estranged uncle, Maurice
                        Sehnaoui, the slick-talking banker\u2019s obsession
                        with Israel was inherited directly from his
                        father, Nabil Sehnaoui.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>\u201cMy
                        brother has always been fascinated by Judaism,\u201d
                        Maurice Sehnaoui </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/c2fd58a6-4dec-447e-8498-2d9bb9f947bb?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>told Lebanese media</span></a><span>,
                        adding that Nabil went as far as insisting \u201cwe
                        had Jewish ancestors\u201d \u2013 a claim Maurice derided
                        as \u201cnonsense.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>When
                        Mossad\u2019s then deputy director, David Kimche,
                        sought to make inroads among Lebanon\u2019s Christian
                        community, he turned to Antoun Sehnaoui\u2019s
                        father, Nabil \u2013 who was reportedly so eager to
                        work with Israeli intelligence that he
                        personally hosted the senior Mossad spy at his
                        home for dinner in the late 1970s. When not
                        tending to his family\u2019s business empire, Nabil
                        had emerged as a leading figure of a clandestine
                        ultranationalist Christian militia called
                        Al-Tanzim (\u201cthe organization\u201d), which was
                        largely composed of diehard right-wing military
                        officers who viewed themselves as modern-day
                        crusaders confronting the Islamic \u201cmenace\u201d by
                        any means necessary.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Kimche
                        was far from the only influential Israeli to
                        make house calls. According to former
                        schoolmates, the young Sehnaoui was known to
                        publicly boast about visits to his family\u2019s
                        upscale apartment by Israel\u2019s then-Defense
                        Minister, Ariel Sharon. And when his father, in
                        turn, visited Sharon at his ranch in Sderot,
                        Antoun frequently tagged along.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Nabil\u2019s
                        cheerleading for Israel was so intense that he
                        criticized even the factions in Lebanon that Tel
                        Aviv covertly backed during the country\u2019s civil
                        war for being insufficiently pro-Israel \u2013 most
                        notably, the Lebanese Forces militia, which
                        massacred thousands of civilians in in Beirut\u2019s
                        Sabra neighborhood and the nearby Shatila
                        refugee camp under the direct watch of Sharon\u2019s
                        Israeli forces in just three days in 1982.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Led
                        by a young warlord named Bachir Gemayel, whose
                        sadism was matched only by his charisma, the
                        Lebanese Forces represented the military wing of
                        the phalangist Kataeb party established by
                        Gemayel\u2019s father, Pierre. The group mimicked
                        Spanish and Italian fascist formations when
                        Pierre Gemayel founded it during the 1930s. Long
                        before its infamous slaughter of Muslims in
                        Beirut, it had gained a reputation for grotesque
                        displays of violence. Bachir Gemayel was </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2f34d3e2-3143-48fa-a304-7ed6bdd1c182?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>personally
                          implicated</span></a><span> in many shocking
                        incidents, including the 1975 Beirut\u2019s Black
                        Saturday massacre, in which Lebanese Forces
                        hunted down hundreds of Muslim and Druze
                        civilians and killed them in retaliation for the
                        slaying of four young Christian men around a
                        dozen miles away.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/98dcefc6-44fc-47dc-afaf-0e0784b92df0?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>Documents disclosed</span></a><span>
                        by Israel\u2019s High Court of Justice in 2022
                        revealed that Gemayel operated with the explicit
                        blessing of the Israeli Mossad, which agreed to
                        arm his men during a 1976 meeting at his
                        parents\u2019 home. Gemayel, who was assassinated
                        shortly after his election as President of
                        Lebanon in 1982, initially demurred when it came
                        to the question of normalizing ties with Israel,
                        however.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>For
                        Antoun Sehnaoui\u2019s father, that was tantamount to
                        treason.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>\u201cNabil
                        was one of Bachir Gemayel\u2019s fiercest critics,\u201d a
                        source close to the Sehnaoui family told
                        L\u2019Orient, because \u201che believed Gemayel had
                        betrayed the Israelis by failing to sign a peace
                        agreement immediately after his election in
                        1982.\u201d Relations between the two men grew
                        increasingly bitter after Gemayel effectively
                        seized Al-Tanzim by force, drawing it under the
                        banner of a single national Christian militia at
                        gunpoint in 1980.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Today,
                        the Sehnaoui family\u2019s fascist militia lives on
                        in the form of the Soldiers of God, a small but
                        especially ruthless self-styled Christian
                        morality police which patrols Beirut\u2019s
                        Achrafiyeh district dressed in all black, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a26257e9-0b1e-4c84-a860-11de43b5fbbf?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>hunting down gays</span></a><span>.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>When
                        the elite-induced economic crash of 2019 left
                        outraged bank patrons demanding their deposits
                        back at gunpoint, the Soldiers of God were
                        dispatched to branches of Sehnaoui\u2019s SGBL banks
                        to protect them. Several members reportedly
                        provide security at the Beirut office of his
                        French-language Ici Beyrouth outlet.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Sehnaoui\u2019s
                        Soldiers of God stormed back onto the scene in
                        2024 when they </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2a6702db-c2d7-4f0f-935a-5a43e502b4c4?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>killed</span></a><span>
                        a member of the Lebanese Forces, a rival
                        right-wing Christian militia, during a street
                        brawl in Achrafieh.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Antoun
                        Sehnaoui\u2019s ultra-rightist, uber-Zionist politics
                        represent the influence of his father, Nabil.
                        \u201cMy brother became very close to the Israelis
                        after the 1982 invasion, and I could never
                        accept that,\u201d Maurice Sehnaoui told Lebanese
                        media, referring to Nabil. \u201cHis son followed in
                        his footsteps.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>A
                        separate source explained to L\u2019Orient Today that
                        Antoun is also \u201cfascinated by Judaism, speaks
                        some Hebrew, and sees in Israel what Lebanon
                        should have become.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>That
                        fascination \u2013 or fetishization \u2013 was shared by
                        the US official who would become Sehnaoui\u2019s
                        paramour, and closest collaborator in Trump\u2019s
                        Washington.</span></p>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;overflow-wrap: break-word;word-break: keep-all;font-size: calc(1.375em * 1);"><strong>Holocaust
                        honeymoon</strong></h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>When
                        a receipt dated December 13, 2025 </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/bd5ee804-e957-4808-acc1-6ce379b25d2d?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>first surfaced</span></a><span>
                        showing Antoun Sehnaoui had spent nearly $60,000
                        buying luxury jewelry for Morgan Ortagus,
                        Trump\u2019s former Deputy Special Presidential Envoy
                        for Middle East Peace under Steve Witkoff, the
                        relationship began to raise eyebrows \u2013 both
                        because it raised serious conflict of interest
                        concerns and because it seemed obvious Ortagus
                        had been pursuing Sehnaoui\u2019s affection while
                        still married to another man.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>But
                        it was clear the pair had plenty in common, as
                        both seemed deeply consumed by a shared
                        infatuation with Israel. Sehnaoui, who had long
                        been forced to contain his more exuberant
                        Zionist tendencies among much of Lebanese high
                        society, was in good company with Ortagus, who
                        constantly flaunts a Star of David necklace with
                        the sort of zeal that only a convert can muster.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>As
                        British celebrity news mag OK! </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/adf85cc1-8716-4286-87c6-1313b51abd22?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>explained</span></a><span>,
                        \u201cthose close to the couple say the relationship
                        is rooted in a shared conviction that has
                        defined both of their careers: that peace in the
                        region is definitely achievable, especially for
                        Lebanon and Israel.\u201d It\u2019s been suggested the
                        pair had been seeing each other since mid-2025,
                        when Sehnaoui held a dinner in her honor at his
                        Beirut restaurant, La Centrale, where guests
                        included now-dead, pro-war US Senator Lindsey
                        Graham.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        relationship was not made public until the
                        DC-based US Holocaust Museum held an event in
                        April 2026 honoring Sehnaoui\u2019s hefty donation to
                        the institution. There, standing by his side and
                        delivering remarks on his behalf, was his
                        beaming girlfriend Morgan Ortagus, who heaped
                        praise on her paramour for funding a US-Israeli
                        opera project that, </span><a
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                        was \u201ctechnically illegal in Lebanon.\u201d</span></p>
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                        from the event published by Hagar Chemali \u2013 the
                        \u201cgood friend\u201d of Ortagus \u2013 shows Ortagus
                        kvelling that Sehnaoui came from a long line of
                        \u201ccommitted Lebanese Christian Zionists,\u201d and
                        that \u201chis father and his mother, May and Nabil
                        Sehnaoui, trained him to be a supporter of the
                        State of Israel.\u201d</span></p>
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                    <p
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                        event therefore represented not only Sehnaoui\u2019s
                        romantic coming out as the beau of Ortagus, but
                        also his coming out as a Zionist. At This Is
                        Beirut, Sehnaoui\u2019s employees </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/cb2cb2c7-5d7c-494e-9045-44db365db26f?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true"><span>boasted that the
                          ceremony</span></a><span> marked \u201cthe first
                        time a Lebanese donor\u2019s name has been inscribed
                        on the donor wall at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
                        Museum in Washington.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>It
                        wasn\u2019t long before Antoun Sehnaoui became known
                        around DC as \u201cthe Lebanese AIPAC guy,\u201d according
                        to L\u2019Orient. Months later, he capped off this
                        performance by hosting a memorial dinner at
                        Washington\u2019s Four Seasons hotel in honor of
                        Lindsay Graham, where photos showed the Lebanese
                        banker seated alongside Israel\u2019s globally
                        reviled prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
                        Accompanying the men were their romantic
                        partners and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose
                        senate office is effectively </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/7760aea8-4bc0-4626-bfa8-87eb54ad5f2a?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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                          operative</span></a><span>.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        photo immediately prompted shock and
                        bewilderment in much of Lebanon. Over a dozen
                        lawyers responded with a demand that the
                        government seek Sehnaoui\u2019s arrest. A Lebanese
                        judge quickly acquiesced, ordering authorities
                        to seize Sehnaoui and question him for 30 days
                        should he appear in the country. But instead of
                        denying his involvement or justifying himself,
                        Sehnaoui has seemingly basked in the attention.
                        At This Is Beirut, his team publicized the
                        event, claiming it had succeeded in \u201cbringing
                        together a distinguished group of American,
                        Israeli, and international political figures.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>With
                        no apparent plans to return to Beirut, it\u2019s
                        unlikely that Sehnaoui will face justice anytime
                        soon. But thanks to his vast banking and media
                        empire, the \u201ctrained\u201d Zionist doesn\u2019t need to
                        set foot in the country to continue pushing it
                        down the perilous path of normalization with its
                        occupier, and closer to the precipice of civil
                        war.</span></p>
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