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‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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I know this is a fraught topic, but blowing up entire villages is past a red line. Just as with Gaza, they're blowing up people just because they can. We in the U.S. are complicit in this.

Just to reiterate, opposing Bibi is not antisemitism, it's anti war-crime. Like how opposing Trump isn't unamerican but rather saying "this is wrong."

The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations.

The Guardian reviewed three videos posted by the Israeli military and on social media, which showed Israel carrying out mass detonations in the villages of Taybeh, Naqoura and Deir Seryan along the Israel-Lebanon border. Lebanese media has reported more mass detonations in other border villages, but satellite imagery was not readily available to verify these claims.

The demolitions came after Israel’s minister of defence, Israel Katz, called for the destruction of “all houses” in border villages “in accordance with the model used in Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza” to stop threats to communities in northern Israel. The Israeli military destroyed 90% of homes in Rafah, in south Gaza.

The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable.

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago

The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable.

The accusation of genocide is completely accurate; domicide is only part of it. Israel's modus operandi goes as follows:

Make it impossible for the locals to live in the region.
"Occupy" the region with military troops. "We're just protecting ourselves!"
Turn a blind eye to Israeli settlers encroaching into the region. "Noooo, the Israeli government has nothing to do with this!"
Wait until they settle and start calling it "our land".
"Israeli citizens live here, so this is Israel now."
Try to shut off criticism through red herring, such as using a tragedy to justify another.

It's likely what Netanyahu wants to do with Lebanon, too. Nazism called it Lebensraum ("life space", or "living space"); I don't know how the Zionism calls it, but it's the same deal.