Israel has called for the urgent ethnic cleansing of millions of Shia muslims living in Lebanon, in order to teach the “Shia enemy population” a lesson.
On X, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli wrote that he would like to see a buffer zone established near Lebanon’s border with Israel – but on Lebanon’s side, not Israel’s, because Chikli believes that Lebanon is not a real country.
Naturalnews.com reports: Even though “it has a flag and even though it has political institutions,” Lebanon “does not meet the definition of a country,” Chikli wrote in warlike terms on Elon Musk’s social media platform.
Beyond the screed, Chikli also shared images of maps questioning the current borders of both Lebanon and Syria, this referencing the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 that carved up the Levant into two spheres of influence: British and French.
“A renewed buffer zone, free of enemy population is the order of the hour and it is the right and most just thing to do both from a security point of view, both from a political and moral point of view,” Chikli added.
Israel has many enemies
Israel has been at odds with Lebanon for many years. Starting in 1982, Israel decided it was going to occupy south Lebanon which, for the next 20 some-odd years, resulted in ongoing conflicts.
The most recent conflict erupted immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel, which sent Israel into a tailspin of war as the Benjamin Netanyahu regime decided that it was time to go in and take over the entirety of Gaza.
Hezbollah, which operates in southern Lebanon, joined the fight against Israel after Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were sent to northern Israel as well as into Gaza to wage war on Israel’s enemies.
Chikli’s commentary is par for the course, he also having ties to far-right European leaders including Marine Le Pen. He and Netanyahu seem aligned in supporting a multi-pronged war against Hamas, Hezbollah, and ultimately Iran.
Hezbollah has said that it does not want a large-scale war with Israel but will continue its rocket and artillery strikes until Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Chikli is not the only Israeli leader to call for more military action in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Israeli education minister Yoav Kisch, for instance, appeared on Israeli state television this week to claim that there is no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon, and that both should be treated as one and the same.
“Lebanon will be annihilated,” Kisch declared. “It will cease to exist.”
So far, Israel has killed about 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and several hundred more in Lebanon. Jordan, Egypt and Russia have all said in the past week that Israel’s attacks in Lebanon clearly point to Netanyahu wanting to drag the entire Middle East into a large-scale regional war.
“A state is defined by borders and common governance,” wrote someone on Twitter / X in response to Chikli. “A criminally apartheid entity since its inception that still hasn’t defined its own borders until today, all while refusing to grant Palestinians a separate state of their own or integrate them, cannot lecture others on statehood!”