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๐จ๐ฑ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฑ ISRAELI MINISTER OF DIASPORA: LEBANON DOES NOT MEET THE DEFINITION OF A COUNTRY
Israel Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli:
โLebanon, even though it has a flag and even though it has political institutions does not meet the definition of a country.
In the absence of a monopoly on the exercise of power both internally and externally, the Lebanese government is not a sovereign entity. The border area with Lebanon, which is mostly inhabited by a hostile Shiite population, is effectively controlled by the Hezbollah organization, which on October 8 started a war against the State of Israel. The organization for those who forgot was born with the landing of Revolutionary Guards officers in the Bekaa at the end of the First Lebanon War and to this day it serves as a de facto militia operating with Iranian funding and direction.
In a broader view, both Syria and Iraq do not currently meet the definitions of a state in light of the fact that different militias, foreign armies and local military forces control different areas in the aforementioned countries. The drawing lines of Sykes and Pico, which were based on the distribution of areas of influence and resources between Great Britain and France, did not survive the test of time, the sectarian and religious fault lines, the topographical route and military power are the ones that shape the boundaries of truth between the different populations in the area.
The current picture of reality, which led us to evacuate tens of thousands of residents from their homes for fear of a ground invasion by an Iranian militia, a fear based both on the organization's declared operative plans, and on the bitter experience of the Shiva events in October, requires us to recalculate a course regarding the border line with the entity that calls itself a state Lebanon.โ
Source: @โAmichaiChikli
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/...
๐จ๐ฑ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฑ ISRAELI MINISTER OF DIASPORA: LEBANON DOES NOT MEET THE DEFINITION OF A COUNTRY
Israel Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli:
โLebanon, even though it has a flag and even though it has political institutions does not meet the definition of a country.
In the absence of a monopoly on the exercise of power both internally and externally, the Lebanese government is not a sovereign entity. The border area with Lebanon, which is mostly inhabited by a hostile Shiite population, is effectively controlled by the Hezbollah organization, which on October 8 started a war against the State of Israel. The organization for those who forgot was born with the landing of Revolutionary Guards officers in the Bekaa at the end of the First Lebanon War and to this day it serves as a de facto militia operating with Iranian funding and direction.
In a broader view, both Syria and Iraq do not currently meet the definitions of a state in light of the fact that different militias, foreign armies and local military forces control different areas in the aforementioned countries. The drawing lines of Sykes and Pico, which were based on the distribution of areas of influence and resources between Great Britain and France, did not survive the test of time, the sectarian and religious fault lines, the topographical route and military power are the ones that shape the boundaries of truth between the different populations in the area.
The current picture of reality, which led us to evacuate tens of thousands of residents from their homes for fear of a ground invasion by an Iranian militia, a fear based both on the organization's declared operative plans, and on the bitter experience of the Shiva events in October, requires us to recalculate a course regarding the border line with the entity that calls itself a state Lebanon.โ
Source: @โAmichaiChikli
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/...
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