Lebanon

The United States is already at war | Israel attacks Lebanon | Al Jazeera”

Of course, not once has it occurred to the Biden administration to meticulously thwart Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where officially more than 41,000 people have been killed in less than a year although the true death toll is without a doubt exorbitantly higher. Nor has the oh-so-skilled US military deemed it necessary to interfere in the wanton butchery currently going down in Lebanon, where Israel just killed more than 700 people in less than a week.

https://aje.io/n47jl5

In killing Nasrallah, Israel chose to open the gates of hell. We’ll all pay the price

Hezbollah has confirmed that its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was among the hundreds of Lebanese killed in Israel’s massive bombardment of a suburb of Beirut last night.

Israel’s action will achieve nothing apart from teaching his successor, and leaders of other groups and countries labelled as terrorist by western governments, several lessons:

  • That Israel, and the West standing squarely behind it, do not play by any known rules of engagement, and that their opponents must do likewise. The current restraint from Hezbollah that has been so baffling western pundits will become a thing of the past.
  • That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death — not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel.
  • That Israel’s ideological extremism — its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum — must be met with even greater Shia-inspired extremism.

https://twitter.com/jonathan_k_cook/status/1840005616435077334?s=61

The BBC is weaponising its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel’s crimes | Middle East Eye

The more Israel expands its war across the Middle East, the more the western media intensifies its war on our minds.

Establishment media outlets like the BBC are weaponising the language of their reporting against audiences no less effectively than Israel weaponised primitive pieces of technology against the people of Lebanon.

(https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-lebanon-israel-reporting-weaponising-crimes-pagers?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)

White phosphorus used in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate

Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate

The Israeli army fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, in military operations along Lebanon’s southern border between 10 and 16 October 2023, Amnesty International said today. One attack on the town of Dhayra on 16 October must be investigated as a war crime because it was an indiscriminate attack that injured at least nine civilians and damaged civilian objects, and was therefore unlawful, said the organization.

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