From the current chaos in Gaza to recent history, Israel’s futile attack on Lebanon in 2006:
“What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on ”¦
“We will apply disproportionate force on it [the village] and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases”¦
“This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved”.
That was IDF Northern Command chief Gabi Eisenkot, openly threatening to kill Lebanese civilians and destroy entire villages yesterday in Israel’s leading daily paper. Eisenkot calls this the “Dahiya doctrine“, after the poor, densely populated Shi’a suburb of Beirut that Israel flattened in 2006, killing or displacing almost the entire population.… Human Rights Watch condemned the “massive destruction” that was inflicted on Dahiya as “both indiscriminate and disproportionate”, describing how “Israeli forces attacked not only Hezbollah military targets but also the offices of Hezbollah’s charitable organizations, the offices of its parliamentarians, its research center, and multi-story residential apartment buildings in areas considered supportive of Hezbollah.”
How much longer can we deny the necessity of bringing Hamas in from the diplomatic cold?