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Nadim Houry Profile picture
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Oct 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Israel deliberately targeting Nabatieh. This has been planned for long. Look at this 2021 report on Nabatieh from Meir Amit Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center. The report basically lists all civilian institutions affiliated with Hezb in town

terrorism-info.org.il/en/the-civilia…
The report (prepared by Israeli intel) lists schools, health clinics, cultural institutions, scouting institutions, gas stations. It concludes "All these components contribute to the strength of the Resistance Society and assist Hezbollah in gaining the local population’s support
In effect, Israel has defined the enemy as the "Resistance society". We are seeing this every day in terms of the targeting. Except it is completely illegal. Any decent IHL lawyer will tell you that such a definition does not respect IHL.
Ironically, if you accept Israel's expanding notion of "resistance society" as a target, then most of Israeli society would be considered part of the "Israel's militarized society" - from the reserves to the universities contributing military tech. A war of all against all.
A number of western countries are accepting Israel's framing of total war. This is the terrible legacy of 20 years of "war on terror". This is frankly madness and is destroying basic norms.

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Nadim Houry Profile picture
Oct 16
Israel seems to have moved beyond the terrible Dahieh doctrine. They have decided to wage war against what it deems the "resistance society". They have been preparing lists of targets for years: from schools to medical centers. The beeper attacks was the opening act of this war🧵
Their public-facing intel groups - like Meir Amit - have even published reports on Hezb institutions that support this resistance society. There are PUBLIC reports on Bint Jbeil, Nabatieh, Bekaa. This is just tip of iceberg terrorism-info.org.il/en/the-civilia…
This approach is illegal. Any lawyer with basic IHL training would say that. The cost on Lebanon will be huge. If Israel is allowed to proceed, most of Nabatieh, Bint Jbeil, Baalbeck, Dahieh, will be totally destroyed & its people killed.
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Dec 1, 2023
Thinking a lot about the @972mag article on Israel's targeting. Much of the conversation is focused on Israel's violation of proportionality. That is obvious. But actually, the main issue is that it is violating the principle of distinction. A 🧵
972mag.com/mass-assassina…
What the article describes as “power targets” are not considered under IHL as legitimate military targets. A Hamas member's home is not legitimate. Otherwise, any building in Israel where a reservist lives, would be legitimate. It defeats basic premise of distinction under IHL /2
What Israel is doing is not new. When I worked on 2006 war, we found a similar pattern of Israel basically eroding the principle of distinction. Think of the Dahieh doctrine. It assumes that anyone in a particular area is a combatant /3
hrw.org/report/2007/09…
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Sep 9, 2020
1) Quick thread on US sanctions on #Lebanon officials. No sympathy for those who pillaged country. BUT, motivation & how sanctions applied matter. I don’t believe this is about anti-corruption & there is a risk that a selective approach undermines broader anti-corruption drive
2) This is really about US putting squeeze on Hezbollah & its allies. The anti-corruption motivation feels like an afterthought. Otherwise, they could have elaborated more on the corruption claims or broadened them to corrupt pro-US allies (and they are many)
3) There is a risk that such sanctions end up politicizing drive against anti-corruption into another March 8/14 battle and we lose the bigger picture. It is one thing to use sanctions as a drive to get rid of a whole political class vs. instrumentalizing it in partisan battle
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