Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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To say it's out of control would be like meaningless at this point, but there are levels of where this can go.
And Lebanon is in a sense like deceivingly small.
There's a book called Beware of Small States that talks about Lebanon because a lot of the world is happening in Lebanon, to kind of put it maybe metaphorically.
And the trends that are being done to the Lebanese or to people in Lebanon, like the Doha doctrine in 2006, was then used in Gaza, obviously.
And now they're saying that they're going to use the Gaza methodology in Lebanon.
So it's like it came back to Lebanon in a sense.
But the point is that this will continue.
There is no objective reason to believe that
If Hezbollah is destroyed and completely disarmed and what have you, that this problem is going to go away because if anything, a new beast of some kind is going to be created in the fires in the same way that Hezbollah was created in the initial ones.
And so, yeah, the problem ultimately, and I say this as someone who has been campaigning, writing, gotten death threats from Hezbollah supporters in 2019, when I was part of the protest, we were beaten up by them.
This comes from no sympathy whatsoever towards them.
It's just an acknowledgement.
I'm also a historian that they come from a certain context.
And if that context is not acknowledged at all, and in fact, the conditions that brought them are now much worse than even the 80s,
Why would we believe that something else won't come along later on in one way or another?
And this notion that the Israelis have that they're just a buffer zone and then destabilize Lebanon endlessly or whatever it might be, it also comes from this sort of imperialist hubris that they believe that this won't harm them in one way or another, that they can endlessly and permanently have a neighbor to their north that has a lot of armed components and also constantly at war or whatever it might be.
It's hubris, it's imperialist hubris, and it's also extremely, extremely dangerous, even beyond just what would happen to people in Lebanon.
Yeah, yeah.
And the thing is, it's sort of the same principle, in a sense, that same understanding that also led me to, for years now, to oppose the Iranian regime.
It's that same understanding.
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