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“We are fed up and we want to live in peace,” Aoun said, adding “(Lebanese people) deserve to live in peace and in dignity, they deserve not seeing their homes being destroyed every five to 10 years.”

Since its founding in the 1980s, Hezbollah has gone to war with Israel multiple times. This year, the group fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for a joint US-Israeli assault on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and much of his senior military command. Israel’s aggressive response has killed more than 3,500 Lebanese and displaced nearly a fifth of the population.

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Israeli leaders keep talking about greater Israel and you still spew your bullshit here? Why the governments before Hezbollah even existed neglected the south ?

Since independence in 1943, Lebanon's political system has been organised around sectarian compromise, elite bargaining, and the concentration of power in a predominantly Christian Beirut and Mount Lebanon. Peripheral regions such as the north, the Bekaa, and the south were frequently treated as secondary spaces, useful electorally but rarely central to state planning.

https://www.newarab.com/analysis/history-neglect-how-lebanons-state-failed-south

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/17/world/south-lebanon-rejected-neglected-and-occupied.html

[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure what your argument is.

We can talk about the marginalization of the Shia and also their forced migration from central parts of Lebanon to the South all day long. Yes, it happened. I'm not denying that. But the primary reason that Hezbollah exists is as a resistance group, otherwise they wouldn't need their weapons.

You'll also notice that even in the article you quoted, issa mentions that the South was also unstable with the influx of refugees and skirmishes between them and Israel, AND the marginalization of the Shia.

The problem was not simply poverty, according to Issa, but government abandonment under the conditions of permanent threat.

So what's your argument exactly?