Israel is openly ethnically cleansing Lebanon

Israel has openly admitted that it will not allow displaced Lebanese people to return home, which is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing.

So far, the IDF has displaced over one million people in Lebanon as it expands its illegal ground invasion.

But the world should have expected this, given that the Zionists have forcibly displaced the entire population of Gaza since October 2023. Not to mention its previous invasions of Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon.

Nakba

But Israel set the precedent right back in 1948 during the Nakba – when it ethnically cleansed 700,000 Palestinians and almost totally destroyed Palestinian society.

The very creation of the Zionist state included the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. So how could we ever expect a normal society that doesn’t rely on blood and violence to come from that?

Greater Israel

Israel has been talking about its ‘Greater Israel’ project since 1967.

It is used to refer to the territories Israel illegally stole in 1967: the Palestinian territories, the Golan Heights in Syria, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

However, the Zionists have also referred to it to as including all of Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, along with significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

In 2024, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister, advocated for the expansion of their borders. He said:

It is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus, invoking the “Greater Israel” ideology.

According to Middle East Eye, he then suggested that:

Israel would gradually grow to encompass not only all Palestinian territories but also parts of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Additionally, during Israel’s genocide in Gaza, an IDF soldier wore a patch showing a map of “Greater Israel” on his uniform. This map included parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.

For a long time now, Israel has made its intentions clear. It’s textbook colonialism wrapped up in ‘never again’.

Destruction

Now, Israel is carpet bombing Beirut in the same way it did to Gaza.

The illegal terrorist state has proven it can take out military officials with extreme precision – to the point of being able to target specific apartments in buildings.

Despite this, the genocidal entity still feels the need to wipe out whole apartment blocks – just because it can.

It has no regard for human life – at least not Black and Brown lives.

Israel and the US are committing 9/11 style massacres every single day – yet still, pointing it out is ‘AnTIsEmITiSm’.

But I say, my arse. The world should not need any more proof that Israel is the problem.

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