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Die Auslegung des Antisemitismus-Begriffs in Deutschland schränkt die freie Meinungsäußerung laut Europarat zu stark ein. Legitime Kritik an Israel werde so unterbunden. trib.al/5Z7uVel

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custos of the Holy Land report they were blocked from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem by Israeli police on Palm Sunday, calling it "a manifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate measure." vaticannews.va/en/church/news…

A brief history of Israeli attempts to occupy Lebanon, 1918-present. ⤵️ 1918. David Ben-Gurion & Yitzhak Ben-Zvi published Erets Yisroel in Fergangenhayt un Gegenvart (The Land of Israel, Past and Present), describing "our country" as stretching from the Litani River in southern Lebanon, the Hermon Mountain foothills and Wadi A'waj (just south of Damascus) in the north... archive.org/details/righte… 1919: Chaim Weizmann told British Prime Minister David Lloyd George the Litani was 'valueless’ to Lebanon but was “essential to the future of the Jewish national home.” He said we “consider it essential that the Northern Frontier of Palestine should include the Valley of the Litani, for a distance of 25 miles above the bend” researchgate.net/publication/37… ​​and aljazeera.com/news/2009/8/12… 1919: The World Zionist Organization proposed to the Paris Peace Conference the boundaries of the "Jewish National Home" should start on the Mediterranean coast south of Sidon, following the foothills of the Lebanon mountains to the Litani River, and then following the river eastward. bu.edu/mzank/Jerusale… In 1944, the Zionist movement put forward a plan by American Zionist, Walter Clay Lowdermilk, calling for the usage of the Litani River in Lebanon for Zionist projects. scienceopen.com/document_file/… On May 24, 1948: Ben Gurion told his general staff: “we should prepare to go over to the offense with the aim of smashing Lebanon, Transjordan and Syria… The weak point in the Arab coalition is Lebanon, for the Muslim regime is artificial and easy to undermine. A Christian state should be established, with its southern border on the Litani River. We will make an alliance with it.” archive.org/details/bengur… 1948: During the 1948 war, Ben-Gurion thought the Litani should be Israel's northern border. In Oct. 1948, Israeli forces crossed into southern Lebanon & occupied 15 mostly Shiite villages. The Israeli commander Carmel said he was motivated by the consideration that the Litani River & Wadi Duba afforded natural, defensible boundaries for Israel & by a desire to leverage control of Lebanon in negotiations with the Syrians. After the operation IDF units uprooted villagers along the Lebanese border, including Kafr Birgim, Iqrit, and Mansura dn790004.ca.archive.org/0/items/islami… Israeli troops remained in southern Lebanon until March 1949 when the two countries signed an armistice agreement. Israel was forced to withdraw back to the international border at Ras al-Naqura. 1950s: Recall the Litani was Lebanon's longest river & could be easily & cheaply be diverted to Israel. Complete control of the Litani river would add 800 million cubic metres/yr to Israel's water supply, a theoretical increase of 50% to Israel’s 1600 million cubic meters. scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1497/ 1950s: Recall as well that Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan (Chief of the General Staff (1953–1958) had an urge for territorial expansion. In one meeting with Ben-Gurion in the mid 1950s, they discussed using an Iraqi invasion into Syria as a pretext for an Israeli intervention in Lebanon with the aim of annexing the south and turning the rest of the country into a Maronite state.” For Moshe Dayan, it would be easy to occupy Lebanon. “All that is required is to find an officer, even a captain would do, to win his heart or buy him with money to get him to agree to declare himself the savior of the Maronite population. Then the Israeli army will enter Lebanon, occupy the necessary territory, and create a Christian regime that will ally itself with Israel. The territory from the Litani southward will be totally annexed to Israel, and everything will fall into place” (Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall, p.424) archive.org/details/ironwa… 1950s: Moshe Dayan’s plan was to "'enter Lebanon, occupy ... the territory south of the Litani, which will be annexed to Israel," according to Prime Minister Moshe Sharett at the time. researchgate.net/publication/37… 1960s: Moshe Dayan pronounced again in the 1960s that Israel's northern borders are "not satisfactory" books.google.com.mx/books?id=SZ7qD… 1968-1976: Palestinian guerilla fighters, now based in Lebanon, carried out raids on Israel from southern Lebanon. Israeli forces carried out mass destruction & death across the south, including artillery shelling, air raids, ground incursions, and helicopter commando raids. During this period, Israel forced out as many as 300,000 Lebanese, mostly Shiite farmers, due to Israel’s indiscriminate attacks. ucalgary.scholaris.ca/server/api/cor… 1975-6: The Lebanese government collapsed, civil war broke out in Lebanon. Israel presented itself as the “protector” of three Christian enclaves on the Lebanese side of the border, placing them under de facto Israeli military occupation. merip.org/1982/09/israel… 1978: In March 1978, the Israeli army invaded south Lebanon up to the Litani River, killing 1,100 Lebanese & Palestinians, mostly civilians. Israel also consolidated control of the Wazzani-Hasbani springs in the southeast of Lebanon to increase water flow to the Jordan River, laying pipes to catch the runoff. books.google.com.mx/books?id=SZ7qD… From that time forward, the Israeli army moved freely back & forth across the border, and at any one time Israel deployed at least 1,000 soldiers in Lebanon jstor.org/stable/pdf/267… Then US President Jimmy Carter forced an Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon, threatening to cut off all military aid otherwise. The U.S. moved aggressively to create & deploy UNIFIL to oversee the withdrawal of Israel's forces. Israel was forced back to the border, but managed to install Major Saad Haddad, head of South Lebanon Army (SLA), as the leader of a buffer zone as a bulwark against the PLO. jstor.org/stable/pdf/253… 1982: Israel re-invaded Lebanon, occupies the territory south of the Litani River, besieged Beirut for 10 weeks, devastating civilian infrastructure, killing >19,000, mostly Palestinian & Lebanese civilians, facilitating the massacre of thousands in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. 1982-2000: Israel occupied southern Lebanon south of the Litani River, giving rise to Hezbollah, founded in 1982 in response to Israel’s occupation of Lebanon, with support from their co-religionists in Iran. 1980s: Israel showed no intention of withdrawing from Lebanon & the Lebanese government offered the mostly Shiite population of the south no services or protection, a total absence of state presence. Hizballah soon began attracting large numbers of followers. In 1983, Israel pulled back from the Shouf Mountains overlooking Beirut but continued to occupy all of Lebanon from the 'Awali River southward, including Sidon, Lebanon's fourth largest city. The occupation was costly & Israeli losses continued to mount, and attempts to create village militias in southern Lebanon floundered. Israel redeployed its forces in Lebanon in January 1985, declaring a "security zone,” 10% of Lebanon now effectively under total Israeli control. jstor.org/stable/pdf/267… The occupation included arbitrary imprisonment and torture at the Khiam detention (jstor.org/stable/pdf/301…), economic stranglehold, and attacks on Lebanese villages. 1993: Israeli forces carry out “Operation Accountability” against Hezbollah, which attempted to force Hezbollah north of the Litani River: 140 Lebanese civilians killed, 500 Lebanese civilians wounded, 300,000 Lebanese civilians displaced. Israel’s purpose was, in the words of HRW, “to effect a massive displacement of the civilian population in south Lebanon in the operation was to "to effect a massive displacement of the civilian population in south Lebanon.” hrw.org/legacy/summari… 1996: “Operation Grapes of Wrath” Israel again sought to force Hezbollah out of South Lebanon and "to effect a massive displacement of the civilian population in south Lebanon,” according to HRW. Israel killed 154 civilians & injured 351 in Lebanon during the war. Israel pressured the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah and Amal. Israel threatened civilians unwilling or unable to leave would risk their lives; hrw.org/legacy/summari… and #P81_5005" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hrw.org/reports/1997/i… 1996, 1999-2000: Israeli strikes on Lebanese power plants darkened much of Lebanon in 1996, 1999, and twice in 2000, causing $300M in damage. The goal was to punish the civilian population of Lebanon for not dealing with Hezbollah jstor.org/stable/pdf/267… 2006: Tit for tat border skirmishes led to the 34-day war in which Israel killed more than 1,109 Lebanese, the vast majority of whom were civilians, and displaced 1 million people. Hezbollah rockets killed 43 Israeli civilians. Israeli airstrikes destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of homes. hrw.org/report/2007/09… Yet, according to the Pentagon, the war was seen as "a disaster" for the Israeli military. Hizbullah forces were able to wreak havoc on Israeli armor columns. ynetnews.com/articles/0,734… Nov, 2023-Sep.2024: The Israeli military carried out >70 small covert raids into southern Lebanon since November 2023 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Sep. 2024: Israel carried out a series of terrorist attacks, planting bombs in communication devices, killing scores across Lebanon. Israeli forces began a series of airstrikes on 23 September, killing over 800 in the first week. Since mid-September 2024, Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed at least 2,267 people & injured 11,022 more, mostly civilians. On 1 October 2024, Israel invaded southern Lebanon again with ground forces. They advanced very slowly & failed to take and hold territory, primarily due to heavily Hezbollah resistance on teh ground. See for example, the following analyses of Hezbollah’s military capabilities discussed youtube.com/watch?v=PGp9sB… and youtube.com/watch?v=JFa_1e… by @jonelmer The fighting was supposed to end on 26 November, when Israel & Lebanon signed a ceasefire agreement, Yet, Israel kept troops at five 'strategic points' inside Lebanese territory beyonf the final withdrawal date. today.lorientlejour.com/article/144824… And Israel has continued to bomb Lebanon & killed hundreds of Lebanese since, violating the ceasefire over 15,000 times, killing hundreds. This past week, Israel renewed its ground invasion. Israel announced plans to seize the entire area south of the Litani River in a “massive invasion”. In the past week and a half, Israel has killed 800+ in Lebanon, wounded thousands and displaced a million. Israel Katz warned displaced Lebanese civilians forced out of their homes would not be allowed to return until the safety of Israelis near the border was guaranteed. He added: “just as was done against Hamas in Rafah, Beit Hanoun and the terror tunnels in Gaza” theguardian.com/world/2026/mar… Israel has announced its going to do to Lebanon what it did in Rafah & Beit Hanoun: genocide.

This episode aired in 1989. But, yeah..."Oct. 7th." #Israel