Dana El-Kurd

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Behind the Bastards · It Could Happen Here Weekly 225 · 28 Mar 2026 podcast

There's like historical roots to all of this.

It even goes back to the Israelis having ties with the local Christian far right in the 60s, especially as the 70s and 80s.

During the civil war in Lebanon.

And a bit of this almost ideological thing of like, we will focus on the non-Muslims and hope that they're on our side, that sort of thing, which is a policy that the Israelis have done within Israel-Palestine and in Syria.

You know, this is an ongoing thing as well, and so on and so forth.

I really want to emphasize this because I have had the experience when I read a lot of the coverage and listen to podcasts, what have you, that even among people who don't support the state of Israel, who are very critical of it, that tends to be understandably because Lebanon is less powerful than Iran, not as influential on the global scene or whatnot.

But there's usually a tendency to link what happens in Lebanon directly to what's happening in Iran.

And this has been true in the past three weeks.

And as I said, this is, of course, partly the case.

It's not like completely irrelevant.

Hezbollah did even state that the reason why they launched those rockets was to avenge the assassination of the Ayatollah.

So, of course, it's directly related.

But there's all of this like wider and older context that can help at the very least explain why the Israelis are doing that in Lebanon and also help explain what's happening to Lebanon itself, which tends to be not as focused on.

I mean, despair is, I guess, one word to describe it.

There's definitely a sense of helplessness.

Hezbollah is not a popular party in the country in terms of like the percentage of the population.

The recent actions, whether this one or like after October 7th, the decision to join the war,

was unpopular and still is unpopular.

This is something that the Israelis are trying to capitalize on, obviously, either because they want to just destroy the party or because as part of doing that, they also want to destabilize all of Lebanon.

So both of those things are happening at the same time.

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