Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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And so effectively what is being asked of Lebanon itself, and especially of South Lebanon, of Dahi and East Lebanon, ultimately of all of Lebanon, is that just accept your fate.
Just accept that there's nothing you can do about the Israelis.
There's nothing you can do about their actions in Lebanon proper.
I'm not even talking about any actions like rockets towards Israel.
I'm talking their actions in Lebanon itself.
And they're also asking Hezbollah, for example, to disarm, which in and of itself I am not opposed to.
But in the context of what has been happening, in the context of what's happening now,
I think it's ludicrous to imagine that people in a context like in South Lebanon, who have decades now, long experience of seeing Israeli occupation, of seeing Israeli troops on their lands, no matter like multiple different prime ministers in Israel taking the charge and whatnot, but that continuing to be this kind of almost eternal fact in a sense, or at least that's how it feels.
They're being asked to just disarm and hope for the best.
That's really like effectively the policy towards Lebanon at the moment.
Like I saw an interview with one of the French ministers a few days ago, and she was asked like, why aren't we doing more to help Lebanon by someone in the audience or whatever?
And she said that, like, we're sending humanitarian aid and we have UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon and so on.
UNIFIL forces, those UN peacekeeping forces, as I said, don't have a legal right to even retaliate against the Israelis, including when Israel bombs them, which it has done at least twice in the past few weeks.
The Lebanese army rarely engages with Israelis.
They don't even have the means in the first place.
And so what are people expected to do?
And this is sort of the context in which everything else almost doesn't matter.
Like in terms of whether you personally like the Hezbollah, I certainly don't.
And whatever like one's personal feelings or even politics is towards a political party, because they are also members of the Lebanese parliament, towards the state itself, whatever it is, that it really feels that ultimately it's like out of our hands.
And this is like a component of this entire thing that I really see, to be honest, discussed as though there are like two sides to the story or like two equal armed actors for that matter, even non-armed, like equal states for that matter.
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