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writer, historian and anti-authoritarian researcher. I do @thefirethesetimes.com. Newsletter: hauntologies.net Support my work with a small donation https://ko-fi.com/eliaayoub Signal @ ayoub.02 📍Brighton, UK / Ferrara, Italy / Beirut, Lebanon
As predicted, France, the UK, Italy, and mie Germany are now acknowledging, carefully and belatedly, what Spain said out loud from day one about Trump and Netanyahu’s Iran war:
reckless, unlawful, and strategically empty.
Courage, it turns out, has a lag time.
Three days ago, Israel ordered the south evacuated. Two days ago, they did the same to the southern suburbs. That’s more than one million people. Some, the most vulnerable, are sleeping rough by the sea or on sidewalks. Today, it is raining. War harms the poor the most.
I’m starting to believe Israel doesn’t want peace in the Middle East
Beside Israel's northern border fence, the bursts of machine-gun fire from inside Lebanon are loud and long, as new Israeli forces push in to take strategic positions near the border. The regular rumble of air strikes echoes over the shattered remains of Shia villages, destroyed during Israel's last ground war there in 2024. A senior military official said on Thursday that Israeli ground forces were taking additional hilltops inside Lebanon - a defensive operation, he said, to better protect Israel's northern communities. But there has been a significant military build-up here. On Friday morning we passed dozens of tanks and armoured bulldozers, newly-positioned right by the border, fuelling growing speculation that a full-scale ground invasion is planned.
Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians have been fleeing Israeli air strikes in Lebanon over the past few days, less than 18 months after a ceasefire ended the last conflict with Israel in November 2024. During that war, Israel fought its way house to house through many Lebanese border villages. Their crushed remains still litter the landscape. But some Hezbollah fighters have reportedly returned to these areas, and Israel is now fighting its way through the area again. Without those assaults on Hezbollah in 2024, which left a key Iranian proxy severely weakened, Israel would have found it much harder to launch its current war on Iran - or the previous one in June last year - without a much higher cost at home.
This is the language used by the BBC to describe Israel's war on Lebanon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cited: IDF Chief of Staff, Israeli living near the border, another Israeli, an Israeli politician and a Israeli commentator. No one else.
The Lebanese are just numbers throughout the piece.
My god the arrogance
Still unclear. Army could have just reacted to the helicopters on their own
One of the Israeli strikes in Tyre, Lebanon, nearly hit an ancient archeological site www.lorientlejour.com/article/1497...
Tyre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world
There it is. “Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target” 3/6/26 … 1/
Israel attacked UN forces in Lebanon. It’s nowhere near the first time either.
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UPDATE: The Nabi Chit area at this moment during the Israeli airborne operation, amidst fierce clashes and heavy airstrikes targeting the Lebanese Bekaa Valley.
Heavy clashes are ongoing between the Israeli force that carried out the landing and residents of the town of Nabi Sheet, reportedly supported by Hezbollah militia forces. Initial reports indicate the operation may have failed, with Israeli soldiers wounded during the withdrawal.
"A U.S. diplomat who was in the embassy when McGurk arrived found his steady advance astonishing. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”"
Cw/ body parts
The Israeli army massacred 9 people in the city of Tyre, Lebanon, all belonging to a single family
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Reports of the Israelis bombing a UNIFIL position in South Lebanon
I’ll be hosting tomorrow’s @fromtheperiphery.com patreon hangout. The main topic of convo will obviously be the war
Join here:
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“There is no thought process into what any of this means long term,” said one official. “It’s not coordinated regime change. It’s just ‘bomb them until they’re less of a threat.’”
Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”
217 killed, 789 injured and 95,7773 forcibly displaced
At least 217 killed, 789 injured and 95,7773 forcibly displaced in Lebanon due to Israeli strikes already
via Megaphone News
Has there been a regime in recent memory that has terrorised so many people for such a long time?
absolute sociopaths
My 89 yo Lebanese-Palestinian-Italian grandmother, who fled the Nakba in 48 as a child to Lebanon, has essentially never lived more than a few years at a time in nearly a century of existence without being impacted by Israeli state violence.
And then they call this 'crisis in the middle east.'
Thread - let’s stop pretending that there are no spaces left to build. There are loads.
Golf courses are monumental waste of resources while only benefiting a tiny fraction of the population.
Netanyahu shaking hands with Putin
It's amazing to me that there are still people who think they can be pro-Ukraine and pro-Israel at the same time. This is from Netanyahu's 2019 campaign, 5 years after Russia annexed Crimea. Keep on deluding yourselves that you can be moral on one cause and immoral on another.
The US government being the worst cliché of a dumb American man from the movies I watched growing up adds a dimension to the ongoing horrors that’s difficult for me to grasp
Israeli strike on house in Baalbek kills three - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-house-baalbek-kills-three
"The ban has nothing to do with professional sport, where trans women have been unable to compete since 2024. These rules are just hurting women who only want to play sport with their friends."
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An adviser to a Gulf government said the prospect of an investment review by the wealthy states had caught the White House’s attention. They manage some of the world’s largest and most active sovereign wealth funds, and Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar last year pledged to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the US after President Donald Trump visited the region. They are also big backers of sporting events around the world and have all been investing heavily domestically to develop their nations and diversify their economies. Any move that affects investments in the US or other western states may raise the pressure on Trump to seek a diplomatic strategy to bring the war to an end."
Interesting.
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Map of Israeli bombings over Lebanon in 2006, almost exactly 20 years ago
When was the war declared Ryan?
Or are you suggesting that any military vessel anywhere in the world can be bombed by any state at any point?
Please explain it to us peasants Oh Lawyer
Israel started bombing Dahieh
