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The episode discusses the ongoing Israeli war on Lebanon with insights from Professor Munira Khayyat.

Join us for our discussion of the current Israeli war on Lebanon with Professor Munira Khayyat in West Beirut. As we bring this show to you, the US Israeli war on Iran continues with unrelenting destruction, and has already become a regional war. As we record, reports of Israel’s bombings of civilian buildings in central Beirut are coming in, with 12 documented deaths and over 40 wounded. The war has extended now well beyond Lebanon south of the Litani River, which zionists have long sought to annex as part of Eretz Israel and which has been steadily defended for decades by Hezbollah, and beyond the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, which Israel has been targeting for decades since it is a major site of support for Hezbollah. With open criminal intent, Israeli defense minister ⁠ Israel Katz⁠ threatened that Dahiyeh would be subjected to the same treatment as Khan Yunis in Gaza and in the past weeks, since the beginning of the US-Israeli assault on Iran, Israel has been targeting civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, as well as homes and whole villages. The current zionist war on Lebanon is, however, merely an escalation of its ongoing assault on Lebanon’s sovereignty…

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