Dana El-Kurd

And he described all of the Shia population of Lebanon as, quote, unquote, hostile, which is genocidal language by definition.

And even about two or three weeks ago or so, Smotrich, who's one of the main far-right politicians in Israel today, said that very soon, as I'm quoting, very soon, Dahye will resemble Khan Yunus.

Dahye being the southern suburb of Beirut, where there's a lot of support for Hezbollah and has always been talked about by the Israelis as one of the, quote-unquote, Hezbollah strongholds.

In fact, they pioneered, you might say, the Dahi Doctrine in 2006, so named after Dahi.

There was a war in 2006 as well between Israel and Hezbollah, which is quite explicitly a policy of bombing civilian infrastructure in order to put pressure on the enemy, in this case Hezbollah, which is

basically an acknowledgement that they violate international law as state policy.

And on March 11, a member of the Knesset for the same party as Smotrich said, and I'm quoting, we must conquer territory in southern Lebanon, destroy villages there and annex the territory to the state of Israel, end quote.

There's another one, Gadi Eisenkot, who was the former chief of staff of the Israeli army, the IDF.

said around the same time, I think it was a couple of weeks ago, quote, the Da'ahid doctrine has never been more relevant than right now, and it must be implemented, end quote.

The Da'ahid doctrine being the one that I just mentioned.

And this is, as I said, not new.

Whether in the context of talking about Palestinians in Gaza long before the ongoing genocide, whether in the context of talking about the Lebanese and so on, there has been this train of open utterances of genocidal framing.

on behalf of Israeli politicians and military leaders, one needs to know this to understand why they act in certain ways in Lebanon.

If it was just about targeting their enemies or whatever, that would be one way of doing warfare.

But it wouldn't explain detonating entire villages as they've been doing during the so-called ceasefire.

It wouldn't explain spraying herbicide, which they did about a month ago, over large parts of South Lebanon, including parts of Syria, for that matter, which killed crops and so on.

It wouldn't explain them not allowing farmers to harvest their crops.

It wouldn't explain all of these things.

What would explain all of these things is if you take into account what they say their intentions are in Lebanon, or at the very least what they want it to happen in Lebanon, if that makes sense.

Yeah, 20% of the country.