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The #Lebanese ruling kleptocracy obliterated our economy and sent our citizens into an abyss of despair #NeverForget #BeirutBlast | @AUB_Lebanon | @Wharton
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๐ช๐๐๐ก ๐ โ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐ก๐๐๐๐ฆ๐งโ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ช๐๐ฅ ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ฆ This is Courtney Bonneau, an American photographer who travels through Lebanon presenting herself as an independent reporter. I challenged her video from Aitaroun yesterday because it showed the devastation while erasing every event that led to it. Today she films from Mansouri. I did not insult her. I simply asked her to acknowledge the other half of the story: โข Hezbollah opened fire on Israel on 8 October 2023, one day after Hamasโs attack, not because Lebanon had been attacked, but to support an Iranian-led regional war. โข For four decades, Hezbollah has violated and usurped Lebanese sovereignty by maintaining an Iranian-funded military state within the Lebanese state and claiming the power to decide war and peace on behalf of an entire country. โข Its independent arsenal and military command have operated outside the exclusive authority of the Lebanese state and in defiance of the Taif Agreement and UN Security Council resolutions 1559, 1680 and 1701. โข The November 2024 cessation-of-hostilities arrangement required Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah and other armed groups from attacking Israel and reaffirmed the full implementation of Resolution 1701. โข Hezbollah nevertheless resumed its attacks on Israel on 2 March 2026 following Ali Khameneiโs killing, once again dragging Lebanon into an Iranian regional confrontation in which the Lebanese people had no say. โข In response, the Lebanese Cabinet formally prohibited all Hezbollah military and security activities, declared them outside the law, ordered Hezbollah to surrender its weapons and restricted its permitted role to political activity within Lebanonโs constitutional framework. Hezbollahโs armed structure is therefore no longer merely defying international resolutions. It is openly defying an explicit decision of the sovereign Lebanese government. None of this excuses unlawful conduct by Israel or diminishes the suffering of Lebanese civilians. But a reporter who displays the consequences while deliberately concealing the decisions and military infrastructure that precipitated them is not providing context. She is manufacturing a narrative. How did this self-described journalist answer a Lebanese citizen from the South whose home has repeatedly been destroyed? โ๐๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ด๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ.โ She blocked me. She did not refute one fact. She did not explain why Hezbollah had the right to initiate hostilities from Lebanese territory. She did not acknowledge Iranโs control over Lebanonโs decisions of war and peace. Instead, she reduced herself from a purported journalist to a propagandist for an Iranian militia that has violated and usurped Lebanese sovereignty for four decades, and whose military and security activities the Lebanese government has now formally outlawed. ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ด๐๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด is that the world is now waking up to the scale of the military infrastructure constructed at Ali al-Taher over two decades by Iran and Hezbollah: underground networks, command centres, weapons depots, launch positions, living quarters and heavily fortified installations embedded within the landscape of southern Lebanon. That infrastructure did not appear overnight. It was planned, financed and constructed over many years to wage an Iranian war from Lebanese territory, beneath and among the communities whose destruction Courtney now films such as the hospital in Mansouri. Yet she turns her camera away from all of that. She strips Hezbollahโs military infrastructure and Iranโs role from the history of the conflict and presents Israelโs actions as though they materialized one morning without provocation, context or cause. ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ท๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐บ. ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ด๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด, and astonishing arrogance toward a Lebanese citizen who has lived through the consequences she merely visits to photograph. Courtney, you may block my account, but you cannot block Lebanonโs history. You cannot photograph our destroyed villages, erase the Iranian military machine constructed inside and beneath them, ignore the militia that initiated the hostilities and then curse Lebanese people who refuse to accept your imported narrative. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐๐๐น๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฒ๐น๐ฑ. ๐ช๐ฒ ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐พ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐. The people of southern Lebanon are not scenery for foreign activists, and our ruined homes are not props for one-sided propaganda. We are entitled to demand accountability from Israel, from Hezbollah and above all, from the Iranian regime that repeatedly turned our country into its military launchpad. ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ๐ป ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ฒ. Our suffering does not belong to Courtney Bonneau, or to anyone else seeking to edit our history for an audience abroad. #CourtneyBonneau #Lebanon #SouthLebanon #Aitaroun #AliAlTaher #Hezbollah #IRGC #Iran #UNSCR1701
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