There was no hint of de-escalation as Israeli warplanes bombed a residential area of Beirut on Friday, killing at least 31 people, including multiple Hezbollah commanders, and wounding at least dozens of others. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said that the dead include three women and seven children.
During a Saturday television interview, Israeli Minister of Education Yoav Kisch falsely proclaimed that “there is no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon.”
“The way things are progressing at the moment, Lebanon will be annihilated,” he vowed. Pressed on the genocidal implications of the word “annihilated,” Kisch said, “Lebanon as we know it will not exist.”
Yes, and? My man Lebanon has seen hell at the hands of Israel before. Many times. Also when your neighbor is being ethnically cleansed (ascending to full genocide in Gaza), the right thing to do both morally and under international law is to help them, not sit aside and send thoughts and prayers. I’m not sure why you expect them to sit aside and watch this nonsense unfold when by all means they’re next after Israel is done with Gaza and the West Bank.