Haviv Rettig Gur
Hezbollah spent 12 months demolishing Israeli towns because the “fronts were united.” It decided, without asking the Lebanese, that Lebanon would take part in the Gaza war. Israel, via American negotiators, begged them to stop. America begged, France begged, Lebanese Christian leaders begged. And still, the demolition of Israeli towns continued. So now we have to stop them. You know that, dear Lebanese. You’ve known it for 12 months. You’ve been terrified of this outcome. But you’re also helpless to turn Hezbollah from its folly and allegiance to a cruel foreign empire. So now we have to stop them. And as at every other point over the last 12 months, Hezbollah will decide how long this goes and how bloody it gets. I write those words with trembling hands. I have a brother in this war. But we actually have to stop them.
Alexandre Ziad Karkour 🇱🇧 🇫🇷
A background on #Yaroun, a biblical town in South #Lebanon turned to dust by #Israel In December 1863, Louis Félicien de Saulcy, the #French orientalist and archaeologist examined the ruins of a temple in Yaroun, with a huge sarcophagi and sepulchral excavations, deducing that Yaroun was the Biblical town of Iaraoun, mentioned in the Book of Joshua (xiv. 38) Around 1865 Ernest Renan found many antiquities in Yaroun during his mission to Lebanon and described it in his book Mission de Phénicie (1865-1874). According to Victor Guérin, who visited in 1870, the town had 300 Greek Orthodox #Christians and 200 Shia Muslims. He described the local church, devoted to St. George ("Mar Jeryis") In October 2024, "the most moral army in the world", intoxicated by its air force monopoly and military superiority, reduced Yaroun to rubble"