“We are fed up and we want to live in peace,” Aoun said, adding “(Lebanese people) deserve to live in peace and in dignity, they deserve not seeing their homes being destroyed every five to 10 years.”
Since its founding in the 1980s, Hezbollah has gone to war with Israel multiple times. This year, the group fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for a joint US-Israeli assault on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and much of his senior military command. Israel’s aggressive response has killed more than 3,500 Lebanese and displaced nearly a fifth of the population.
The Lebanese president, in accordance with Lebanon’s gerrymandered constitution, is a Maronite Christian. The Maronites have had a long history of colluding with the Israelis to fuck with the Muslims and Druze in Lebanon, in order to hold power, despite demographic shifts that mean the Maronites are a relatively much smaller community than they were when they were allocated 1/3 of the political power when Lebanon became independent. This included involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacres during a previous Israeli invasion of south Lebanon. Aoun’s father was implicated in that act of mass murder and betrayal of Lebanese sovereignty.
So: CNN blaming it all on Hezbollah is only a very small fraction of the story. The real story is that elements of the Lebanese ruling class would rather allow the Israelis to murder their own countrymen than to resist. And, last I checked, it wasn’t the Iranians who were murdering people and destroying their homes in south Lebanon.
Wasn’t the second highest fought over agreement from Iran the demand for Israel to also stand down, especially against Lebanon?
Aside from nukes, they want Trump to pacify Israel because they’re inherently connected regardless of which direction the ownership is.
Lebanon otherwise has no leverage in the matter. Israel would still be happy if Iran and the US made a deal by themselves bevause they could just continue as is.
I haven’t looked into it, but it seems that this guy is an Israeli puppet. Someone with the knowledge, please educate us on it.
Does this fool do not realize that israel will try to colonize lebanon with or without the existance of Hizbollah
The Maronites hope to be collaborators with the Israelis and to lead the puppet state if that happens, like they did before with the French.
Sounds more like they think they’d be considered by Israelis the good ones not be the next Palestinians
Since its founding in the 1980s, Hezbollah has gone to war with Israel multiple times.
CNN should probably mention the conditions that led to Hezbollah’s founding.
Admittedly, Hezbollah hasn’t been great to Lebanese either, but Israel never let up the pressure and aggression that only continued to justify Hezbollah’s argument to exist. And a fractured neighbor is much better than a unified neighbor.
The Lebanese state neglected the south which led Hezbollah ability to create a state within a state . Hezbollah build ton of civilians infrastructures like schools, hospitals, clinics, and agricultural development centers
Israel pulled their occupation out of Lebanon in 2000, the Syrian occupation lasted until 2005 (post Prime Minister assassination). Then 2006 war, then 2008 clashes where Hezbollah attacked Lebanese because their communication system was threatened.
So to say that the South was neglected as if it was purposefully done by the central government and not that the central government was in disarray is heavily misunderstanding the political landscape.
Not to mention that Hezbollah and allies have had a majority of seats in parliament for most of that period. So the question is, why didn’t Hezbollah provide more support to the South through the central government rather than their own networks?
Israeli leaders keep talking about greater Israel and you still spew your bullshit here? Why the governments before Hezbollah even existed neglected the south ?
Since independence in 1943, Lebanon’s political system has been organised around sectarian compromise, elite bargaining, and the concentration of power in a predominantly Christian Beirut and Mount Lebanon. Peripheral regions such as the north, the Bekaa, and the south were frequently treated as secondary spaces, useful electorally but rarely central to state planning.
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/history-neglect-how-lebanons-state-failed-south
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/17/world/south-lebanon-rejected-neglected-and-occupied.html
I’m not sure what your argument is.
We can talk about the marginalization of the Shia and also their forced migration from central parts of Lebanon to the South all day long. Yes, it happened. I’m not denying that. But the primary reason that Hezbollah exists is as a resistance group, otherwise they wouldn’t need their weapons.
You’ll also notice that even in the article you quoted, issa mentions that the South was also unstable with the influx of refugees and skirmishes between them and Israel, AND the marginalization of the Shia.
The problem was not simply poverty, according to Issa, but government abandonment under the conditions of permanent threat.
So what’s your argument exactly?
“We are fed up and we want to live in peace,” Aoun said, adding “(Lebanese people) deserve to live in peace and in dignity, they deserve not seeing their homes being destroyed every five to 10 years.”
But Israel are the ones doing that? Or he just wants to become the next colonized west bank?
This is the president who instructed schools, universities and hospitals to conduct bombing drills “in case of Iranian attack”, DURING Israeli bombings which are vanishing entire neighborhoods. He thinks siding with the terrorists will cause them to spare him. Utter fool.
President who has been cucked by Hezbollah positions himself limply on the side of the invaders. Let’s see how that goes for him.
Wouldn’t it be the opposite of a bargaining chip? A handicap? Much harder to get the concessions you want when you’re including a cease-fire with another country in your demands.
Not when iran already holds all of the chips. The US doesn’t really have any leverage against them.
