Yup. And western support like the indulgent parents who insist their demon spawn can do no wrong. All that plus nukes!

Browsing any of the Israel-related subreddits is a fascinating and horrifying glimpse into the Israeli psyche. Truly Cirque-du-Soleil worthy mental gymnastics in order to avoid accountability and willfully misunderstand why the world might rightfully hate them

Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.

Please take a look at the terms of the ceasefire and tell me if it’s even worthy of the name. Also, not 12 hours into it and israel has killed several teams of paramedics in the south searching for bodies under the rubble.

You can’t disarm them under fire and while such a huge chunk of the population is displaced. The Lebanese government can demand whatever it likes but it has zero leverage. Iran does. That’s the sad and honest truth

Me neither but I am most terrified by the option that looks as though its inevitable conclusion is civil war

I don’t know what the solution is but I know it’s not to negotiate directly with an entity that has left 1 million of your people homeless and which is vowing not to allow them to return. What I’m horrified by is not some nebulous idea of selling out but the real possibility of civil war

And: what Lebanon will be left in the wake of a civil war, which is where this inevitably leads?

Just when the world is finally, rightfully beginning to turn against Israel, the Lebanese government decides to legitimize them through direct talks. They claim this is to uphold Lebanese sovereignty. Tell me, what sovereignty can be upheld before an entity openly looking to colonize your land?

On Half a Century of Growing up as a Child of the War What does it mean to be someone who lived through Lebanon's civil war?

April 13 is the anniversary of the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil war, which began in 1975. For The Public Source, I wrote about the twisted nostalgia many of us feel for those dark days:

thepublicsource.org/civil-war-le...

Never has there been a criminal gang so boastful and proud of its crimes.

You have absolutely no idea what I think and you seem to know too little about the region or its history to have this debate in the first place so let’s just end it here, thanks

This society can’t exist without ethnic cleansing. As such it should not exist.

What was done to apartheid South Africa but with more checks & balances. Dismantle the government, try everyone responsible for war crimes, rename & reform the country so everyone has equal rights from the river to the sea. And reparations for the Palestinians in the form of both land & property

That’s not what AlJazeera said though. And: Vance said it was a “misunderstanding” that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire (when it was clearly stated from the outset). US and Israel are always working in tandem, full partners in crime, but Israel allows the U.S. to pretends it’s not the evil empire

They agreed on this deliberate obfuscation with the Israelis

Hilarious. Did they report how many casualties in Lebanon?

Nothing the Israelis hate more than a ceasefire. Which is why they never, in fact, cease fire

Do I believe? It has nothing to do with belief. They are a self-declared ethnostate. A “homeland for the Jewish people” with the Star of David on their flag and unequal laws for the non-Jews who live inside the territory they seized in 1948. It is not a belief, it is a fact.

No, I’m sorry. To exist as an ethnostate, which is what they want when they say “Jewish state” means unequal rights, means apartheid, means ethnic cleansing. Absolutely unconscionable way to exist and we need to get comfortable saying it. Our region was known for religious pluralism before the nakba

I lived in that building for 5 years. First on the first floor and then on the 6th.

Such massacres, going on 80 yrs, are the price of Israel’s “right to exist as a Jewish state.” So when you say “I believe in Israel’s right to exist” you’re saying you’re ok with the mass death required to secure that existence. Learn how to say, loud & unashamed: No, Israel has no right to exist

Do shut the fuck up you Zio freak.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

At some point Israel abandoned all pretenses and decided to lean hard into the cartoonish evil it has always embodied

Thank you 🫂
These are the death throes of a ravening beast. Its reign will end

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

Yes they are always particularly savage before a ceasefire. They try to kill and destroy as much as they can before someone comes to spoil their fun. We are told to stay put and that there is “another round coming”

Everyone calling everyone. Hard to keep track of the locations of the strikes. People calling to check on me as I call others to check on them. I can’t describe the terror and chaos. Fuck Israel. Fuck Israel. Fuck Israel

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic