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Israel Launches Over 120 Strikes on Lebanon, Troops Advance

Is this ethnic cleansing under the guise of self-defense or a necessary defensive strategy for real security?

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Israel Launches Over 120 Strikes on Lebanon, Troops Advance

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Above: Smoke rising from the site of Israeli airstrikes in the Tyre region of southern Lebanon on May 26. Image credit: Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

Anti-Israel narrative

Israel's assault on Lebanon is ethnic cleansing dressed up as self-defense, displacing over a million people and destroying civilian infrastructure the same way Gaza was systematically dismantled. Bombing bridges, cutting fuel, and sieging hospitals reveals unabashed collective punishment. The international community's silence makes every government complicit in what is becoming another humanitarian catastrophe.

Mohamad Safa on X Counterfire

Pro-Israel narrative

Eleven Israeli soldiers were killed after a ceasefire was declared, drones are still hitting homes and school bus stops, and Hezbollah's own leader called disarmament "extermination." Calibrated responses and diplomatic wishful thinking have only given Hezbollah room to rearm and entrench. Northern Israel deserves real security, and that demands a decisive strategy, not indefinite absorption of attacks.

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim on X The Jerusalem Post