@kcarruthers oh no, what did I miss now

@quinn @kcarruthers israel is "letting " druze and christian villagers remain in Southern Lebanon on the condition that they expel the shia muslim refugees they're hosting. Otherwise they will also get ethnically cleansed.

@catbrainz @kcarruthers oh. Lovely. Great. Drop a link? Can't find it rn

@quinn @kcarruthers https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/world/middleeast/lebanon-shiite-israel-evacuation.html

@catbrainz @kcarruthers thank you!

@catbrainz @kcarruthers well that's a fuckton of yikes.

@quinn @catbrainz it’s very on brand for Israel

@kcarruthers @quinn unfortunately most people only became aware of israel's modus operandi with the most recent genocide in Gaza. Even me, a Lebanese who grew up in Lebanon, was blissfully unaware and uneducated on their operations in my own country. As a child you just don't learn about it in any way unless your parents talk about it. I started looking things up since 2023 and realizing israel has been committing these atrocities since even before its creation was gut wrenching. Made me truly understand the depth of anti-Arab racism from the west. Our lives mean nothing.

@catbrainz @kcarruthers I started blogging about it in 99, which of course no one ever saw. The IDF kept getting in trouble with holocaust survivors for putting numbers on the arms of Palestinian detainees. But the Israeli survivors of the Nazis aren't around anymore to get mad at the Israeli government.

@quinn @kcarruthers of course. But the internal propaganda about "true land ownership" runs so deep that would undermine the very foundation that Israel stands on. Existentially, they can't do it.

@catbrainz @kcarruthers well, eventually they will have to. and it'll just as easy and pacific and easily done as the end of slavery in America.