I follow two Lebanese people on instagram and they're both extremely hateful of Hezbollah, completely pro disarmament. They're also against their government for being spineless, but mostly for not dealing with Hezbollah.

I know that Hezbollah isn't perfect, not at all, often prioritising attacking the Zionist entity over the safety of Lebanese people.

But it does feel like they hate Hezbollah more than they hate Israel.

Those two people are very informed, I can't teach them anything, and also my country isn't bombed, theirs is, so I should be shutting the fuck up.

I just can't help but think about what happened when the PLO was disarmed. How do they look at this then? I don't get it, and I feel too privileged to ask.

(It's the Sabra and Shatila massacre. The armed forces of the PLO agreed to withdraw from Lebanon, in exchange for protection of Palestinian refugees by the international community (mainly the US). Two weeks later, the IDF violated the ceasefire and slaughtered over a thousand unarmed civilians. Hezbollah was founded in response to this. Israel has never respected ceasfires or disarmament deals.)

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Today in Labor History June 6, 1982: Israel invaded Lebanon, remaining until June 6, 1985. The war was led by Ariel Sharon, who later became prime minister, despite the Kahan Commission later finding him culpable for the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which killed up to 3,500 Palestinian refugees and Lebanese Shiites. By the end of the war, Israel had lost over 650 soldiers. However, up to 2,400 PLO militants and 1,200 Syria soldiers were killed. And as many as 20,000 civilians were killed during the war.

Israel has invaded, bombed, or otherwise attacked Lebanon numerous times since the creation of the Israeli state: raid on Beirut Airport (1968), the Litani Operation (1978), the “Peace for Galilee” operation (1982), the “Settlement of Accounts” operation (1993), the “Grapes of Wrath” operation (1996), the July war (2006), the Tufan al-Aqsa (2023-2024), and now the current war.

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The Assassin

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