42. Israel Escalates Aggression on Lebanon
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- In the last 4 days, Israel has essentially declared war on all of Lebanon. With its mass electronic terrorist attack on Sept 17, followed by similar attacks the following down, and yesterday, Sept 20, they attacked the southern suburbs of Beirut with a bunker buster bomb. All told, Israel has killed more than 70 people and injured thousands of others. They have also increased their illegal, terrorising fly-overs across Lebanon and have drones that buzzed all throughout the night. They claim this aggression is all about deterring Hezbollah, but of course we know this is not the case - with yet another minister going on t.v. claiming that all of Lebanon is Hezbollah. The rogue fascist state of Israel is completely unhinged. What will it take to reign them in? I share my reflections on this as well as my feelings in this moment as a Lebanese person who is worried and heartbroken from my friends and family back home.
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As an Arab with a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother who is currently in the process of running away from a country that never accepted me for existing (the US), I really felt what your friend said.
I feel like I am indeed running away from something while not truly heading towards anything in a lot of ways.
It’s hard to be intellectually and socially constructive in a society that is rapidly crumbling under its own prejudices. I don’t think I will ever be truly at peace within such a society, but I am taking solace in your experience with how much it feels like it mirrors my own while also reflecting one possible path to a future.
That’s all to say that I am grateful to you for sharing your experience.
Wow. Thanks so much for sharing your story. Yes, I think its the fate for an increasing number of people. Most people are not protected from it. It does remind me of a quote thats attributed to Naguib Mahfouz which goes something like "Home is where all your attempts to escape cease." I think that's something a lot of us are looking for it seems.
Stay safe thanks for talking with us
Also, in solidarity with you and all Lebanese who are targeted by all these players
It's been a difficult year, to say the least, and the difficulties didnt start there. As a western leftist, I've been watching this livestreamed genocide 8-12 hours a day everyday since Oct 7, as well as lots of reading and analysis. I have never been more tired in my near 40 years of life. I feel it in my bones, I cant for a second imagine what it feels like for the people of Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen, both those in those places currently, or in diaspora. I try to remind myself of Ho Chi Minh's "revolutionary optimism", but the thought of the sacrifices it took to achieve a victory in that case turn my stomach. I'm afraid theres no easy answer, and certainly, not one I can provide as a western leftist who has never so much as visited west Asia. One of the things that keeps me going is knowing that as I type this, there are Palestinians in the west bank smoking shisha and drinking coffee with their friends, laughing and playing cards, living life despite all efforts to eradicate and dispossess it. That 12 months into a genocide, people in Gaza are still bringing in new life into this world, despite the destruction of the health infrastructure and massacres of health workers. That some people in Gaza, despite it all, still manage to smile, and show warmth to each other. No matter how tired I get, the only silence you'll get from me that isnt quiet contemplation, is the silence of the grave. Thank you for speaking to us today, Ayman, I hope you, your family, and friends stay safe. The people of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran will continue to be top of mind until well after this barbarism has concluded. If the world is to be liberated from capitalism, imperialism, and tin pot dictators, the first step is believing that that can be achieved, and I believe, with everything I have, that it can.
My favorite thing about your analysis is you break the echo chamber for a lot of leftists in the west.
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Thank you for speaking about your thoughts. I have felt so lost for words and depressed because of what we're witnessing. It's scary. I lived during the Iraq invasion but never witnessed so much bad in the world. I understand now the people doing self immolation to a point. We are all messed up in the head for now. At least the good humans are.
Thank you for your efforts. Your video essay inspired some of my recent work. Much appreciated. ❤
Mint Press News and LowKey are atrocity deniers? That is new to me. Explain, as I think these are some of the most valuable counter voices we have.
It is a really upsetting realization that we in the region have been confronted with over the last decade, particularly since 2015. They are idd to a certain extent counter-voices to Western Imperialist media, esp with its allegiance to U.S power/empire. They are do also often say good things, or produce good content/provide coverage, on Palestine and esp the protests, encampments, conferences, which western media either don't touch or cover in a horribly dehumanized, contemptuous way. But they very rarely actually echo what we, in the global south, saying, our aspirations, demands, and our struggles. This obviously encompasses innumerable communities, many of which I do not have enough proximity to speak on. But what I can say is that these media groups and individuals (including mintpress but also so many others, most of which are essentially 'tankies') have done tremendous harm in smearing and erasing the Syrian revolution all the while championing and lionizing the forces that crushed it, along with it the country, and killing and expelling millions of specifically Sunni Arab Syrians. It's a very racist analysis they have - given the veneer of legitimacy as geo-politics - that basically divides the world into camps. In this case Assad, Russia, Iran on one side, the U.S, EU, NATO on the other. We obv all hate the latter so we should be with the former right? That's basically the extent of their analysis. And I say its racist because it erases literally everybody - and there are a lot of us - who despise both, who are victimized and brutalized by both, who constantly attempt to resist both. Their analysis is honestly really harmful and dangerous, constituting, in my opinion, white-supremacist imperialism on the left. I did a whole episode on 'tankies', episode 34. There I also link to and talk about a new initiative called 'People not States' on Insta, nd they've been doing a lot of really important work/writings sort of examining why these groups, people, and ideologies are terrible for us but also not the internationalist left that we need.
Also I def know the concern that they have a big reach nd there's not much alternative for them. To that I think then we need to de-center a little and look for the local pages/orgs/individuals who have smaller reach, nd maybe dish out less content, but then also to follow/read more of them. As in, not the 1-2 good big sources on the SWANA region, but 10-20 smaller sources, each that focus on and center the voices of communities within the respective areas they cover.
I love you brother but I think voices of the Arab diaspora, like Lowkey, deserve to be heard, as we have a unique perspective on the manufacturing of consent for the genocides of western imperialism, particularly in West Asia. A British Iraqi would be especially sensitive to the cookie-cutter regime change propaganda, tropes, manipulation etc that were copy-pasted for Syria that manufactured consent for the horrors of American intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Which isn’t to say that a stopped clock isn’t right twice a day. It IS complicated - but we are also aware - especially in diaspora - how ‘it’s complicated’ has been weaponised our entire lives to shut down critique of the colonisation of Palestine and devastation of our region. How do we move from ‘it’s complicated’ to justice and revolution? Of course we should foreground Arab journalists and voices within the region, but the diaspora is an important voice too, no matter (and sometimes because of) how far they have been driven from their ancestral origins. Just some thoughts. And defending Lowkey at least, from personal experience. He’s a man of integrity who is also devastated by what’s happening, I assure you x
@@620Ramsey I am a Dutch-Algerian. I can relate, brother ;)
Thanks for sharing, I really appreciate your voice. You are doing important and valuable stuff, I am so proud of you.
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I can't imagine what you are going through! As someone born in the U.S. i've never had to worry about being bombed as I slept or shot or beaten as I went to school or being detonated as I answered my pager! & I too feel frustrated at the inability of the world to curb this monster that has unleashed such terror upon rhe world! My faith in humanity is all but gone!
The US is backing the monster: the US is the monster.
thank you for this video
Seems I may have typed something naughty that got the UA-cam auto comment police mad. Unfortunate, as I spent about 30 minutes crafting it, but such is life, I suppose. It's been a tough year to say the least, and that's just from my perspective which is far removed from that of a person from west Asia for whom this has affected them much more personally. I do watch alot of content on what's going on, but I never watched much of lowkeys stuff, seems maybe I had a good instinct there, is there somewhere you've discussed the atrocity denial he and MPN have engaged in? As I would like to learn more. Appreciate the work you do, Ayman, I hope one day soon we will be able to speak about things that dont weigh so heavily on the soul, as it were. As grim as it is, all there is to do now is put one foot in front of the other. Stay safe out there.
Thanks for touching on Syrians issue, but I would be thankful if you can expand to include other groups not just Arabs in the Middle East
"Someone special" I like this mindset
Been loving your videos. Lebanese from Canada, I listen to your vids as if you're there telling me in person getting it off your chest ❤
On the note of US beating the Hizb and Iran on our turf will not end well for them. Just my military opinion lol
Keep at it brother 💪
Feeling for you, Ayman
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Misunderstanding israel is a grave mistake.
Suggestion: Don't start a war with Israel.
Go to Germany they received Syrians you will be ok
Hezbollah came to power as a result of Israel attacking Lebanon. you have the history backwards. you drank the corporate media Kool-Aid
Jesus Christus ist der King 💯❤️❤️🔥🙏🙏
Nightmare? Terrorists have been targeted and many terrorist leaders killed. "Indiscriminate" would have been what Hamas and Hezbollah conduct on a daily basis - targeting civilians. This is counterterrorism, and carefully conducted. Your "nightmare" reflects where your sympathies lie - with the terrorists.
sssshhhh, go away zio
They’re killing thousands of children… not indiscriminate? You are blinded
You are a liar
Bro you need to toughen up.. War is horrific but it’s part of humanity, you need to come to terms with that and start living life instead of wasting it ruminating on such things.. just be glad you and your family are safe.