The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah, issued an evacuation order on Saturday evening, directed at Israeli settlers in 25 settlements in northern occupied Palestine, following in the footsteps of the Israeli occupation forces who had been forcing people to flee their homes in numerous areas across Lebanon.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, stated that these settlements had become military outposts where Israeli occupation forces are stationed to launch attacks on Lebanon. Consequently, Hezbollah declared them legitimate military targets for its aerial and missile forces, calling on settlers to “evacuate immediately.”
“You are requested to evacuate immediately. Your settlements have become a place of deployment and settlement for the enemy military forces attacking Lebanon. As a result, they have become legitimate military targets for the air and missile forces of the Islamic Resistance,” the warning read.
It’s not about displacement. Those settlements have a lot of military activity currently so Hezbollah is saying “we’re going to attack them so move out of the way”
Honestly it sounds to me like Hezbollah is just mirroring IDF tactics (maybe to make a political point). It’s absolutely no different from Lebanese people being told to evacuate by Israel. Except for that one part where Israel gives you less than 10 minutes to grab your cat and daughter.
And then also bombs you in the designated safe zones, so really it’s nothing alike and minimizing civilian casualties is the correct way to prosecute a war, right?
If it’s wrong when the IDF does it (to tell people to evacuate and clear their responsibility for any civilian casualties), then why isn’t it wrong if Hezbollah does it? They can both be wrong.
If it is wrong when the union troops kill natives, then it has to be wrong when the natives kill settlers! /s
Please read about settler colonialism, this isn’t a symmetrical situation.
I’ve read plenty. In fact, growing up in the middle east and doing a literature degree meant there was a post colonial reading of everything. Still doesn’t justify further displacement of more communities. Palestinians can have their lands restored in fair ways and also allow Jewish people to stay (I am excluding illegal settler communities here). Both things can happen at the same time. Palestinians don’t want people’s apartments! They want to be able to get permits and move where they want without prejudice, and in some cases even restore ownership of their family move (if any of it is standing) and be compensated fairly and be given opportunities to resettle without having to make the current inhabitants leave. Those in diaspora don’t want someone’s garden! They want the ability to get a nationality and be able to settle there if they want. The fight is more about freedom than land. There is plenty to do to make it right to Palestinians but forced displacement of an ethnic group isn’t one of them.
Hezbollah is still very much restricting itself to attacking military bases (and Netanyahu’s house).
Israeli soldiers however have decided that they can bomb every house in Lebanon and then go to sleep in their kibbutz instead of on a military base.
Yep, agreed.
Still not acceptable to use forced displacement as a weapon against civilians (also known as terrorism) and I will call it out whether Hezbollah does it or the IDF.
Lebanon does not recognize the existence of Israel. Every Israeli is illegally occupying all Palestinian territory.
Many Hezbollah members are Palestinians who were ethnically cleansed to Lebanon during the Nakba in 1948 and demand their land back.
An easy solution to this is for Israel to accept a two-state solution with the Palestinians according to mandated 1967 borders. This will earn Israel recognition and no longer classify them as illegal occupiers.
Whether Lebanon recognizes Israel or not has not much to do with the morals of displacing several communities. It’s still wrong, just like killing Palestinians is wrong despite the lack of recognition for Palestine.
I am not opposed to the Palestinian cause. I myself am a Palestinian diaspora. So thanks for the history lesson for others to read but it’s just repetition to me. Killing and forced displacement are still wrong, whether you like or or I like it or not and no matter under what cover it happens.
Palestinians getting their land back should never happen using yet another crime. What, Nakba 3 but this time for the Israelis? BS. There are middle ways.
That middle way is Israel accepting a peaceful two state solution right now. The Palestinians in Lebanon are the displaced fighting for their homes back.
Ethnic cleansing does not work as an argument for colonists actively fighting to expand further into Lebanon. It would be akin to claiming that forcing recent Russian colonists out of Crimea is ethnic cleansing.
But we are.talking about the population of the north -.- human beings, yeah? Is that acceptable to you as long as you do a colonial reading or something? Or is forced displacement still wrong?
When someone steals your house it is not “forced displacement” to take your house back. It is the opposite of forced displacement. The order of events is very important here.
Not in the least because the people who stole your old house are now using it as a base to launch military operations to steal your new house.
As stated before, Israel does not understand words. Many Palestinians have tried for decades. Israel is a terrorist state. They will never come to the negotiation table unless they are forced to it.