While we sit patiently watching what kind of de/escalation unfolds between Israel and Hezbollah, here's a short thread on the Zionist movement's conceptions of the geographic boundaries of "Eretz Israel" and her northern borders in Lebanon 🧵 At the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919, the Zionist movement’s map included southern Lebanon, up to and including Sidon. In 1922 British and French excluded southern Lebanon and the East Bank from the parameters of the “Jewish national home,” as the mandates were created.