Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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The current government in Lebanon is led by the guy who was the head of the ICJ when South Africa had started its case of accusing Israel of genocide like a year or so ago.
So his binomial is naive of what Israeli intentions are.
But I think what's really important to understand of what's kind of the mood of the country is the sense that no matter what we decide as a nation, it's completely out of our hands.
And this goes beyond even questions related to Hezbollah and Hezbollah's actions.
Because as I said, even when Hezbollah does not
launch rockets or whatnot the israelis continue to violate ceasefires anyway they encroach land anyway they dynamite entire villages anyway they spray those herbicides and so on and so on anyway and it's one of those things that it's also important to know this to understand why there are people for example in south lebanon that regardless of their personal feelings towards hezbollah
don't see any alternatives because in fact there are none something that i know isn't talked about as much and certainly not covered as much is the fact that the armed force that is supposed to be the alternative to hezbollah the thing that we hear about all the time that the americans what they want is for hezbollah to be disarmed and for the lebanese army to take over
And so on and so forth.
And this is basically the stated goal of the entire world in a sense, or at least a good chunk of it.
And in fact, it's officially the stated policy of the Lebanese state itself.
That is their intention as far as like their public declarations and so on.
And they have made certain moves to that end as well.
But the Lebanese army is the army of a very poor country that has been in economic crisis for a long time.
When we had wildfires in 2019, there wasn't even enough equipment to tackle them.
And foreign government had to donate helicopters and stuff like that.
And that Lebanese army is also heavily subsidized, if you want to say, funded in any case by the United States itself.
The same United States that obviously heavily funds and arms the Israelis.
Of course, the weapons that the Lebanese get is nothing compared to the weapons that the Israelis get.
There's no such thing as an Iron Dome in Lebanon.
None of these things are available to the Lebanese.
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