Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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And maybe to emphasize a bit more in the case of Lebanon, so what happens next for Hezbollah, for example...
I'm not entirely sure.
I don't think anyone really knows.
It seems clear that the Israelis underestimated their capabilities.
But to what extent that will matter if the Israelis continue to just bomb and bomb and bomb Lebanon for weeks on end, if not months on end and so on, I can't tell.
What I can tell is that in the same way as the Israelis want to ignore the Palestinian question, but it's still there.
It haunts them in a way, because I work on hauntology.
And in case of Lebanon, there is also that in many ways, that if you look at the shift in discourse, even within Israeli politics from like, let's say, 70s, especially 80s onwards, I'm not going to say it was never good.
But there was a stronger component of Israeli politicians, let's say, like a higher percentage of them anyway, that were, for lack of a better term, pragmatic.
that were willing to have concessions, that were willing to have whatever, because if only because they just did not want to deal with like occupying a foreign country that they had no intention to legally annex as they did with the legally, none of this is legal, but like within Israeli law, I mean, as they did with the Golan Heights.
And so that's what I'm saying in the case of Lebanon, that it's almost like the worst case scenario is what's currently happening.
And that's like completely regardless of what happens to Hezbollah, because Hezbollah can disappear tomorrow and the problem will continue to be the same, if not just get worse.
The country has no economy to speak of.
The currency was already devalued during the economic crisis, was one of the highest devaluations in the world.
And there are no prospects going forward in terms of like making this a country that can even sustain itself.
It's already very like import dependent.
But if you exclude the South Lebanon and it being a breadbasket, East Lebanon as well, by the way, is also a breadbasket.
And that's another area of Lebanon that the Israelis have been constantly bombarding.
To paraphrase that Israeli minister, that like Lebanon is not a state, it's not a nation.
It's just a place that's on the map.
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