In the months since Israel expanded its attacks against Hezbollah in the country's south has been pummeled by airstrikes and a slow and steady Israeli ground invasion. But lately, the country's north has also come under fire. This house in the sleepy mountain village of Aitou, is now the scene of one [00:00:16] of the deadliest single Israeli attacks since the war here began. 24 people were killed here in an airstrike on Monday. The Lebanese. This is a crime scene, but it doesn't involve the usual suspects. This is a mostly Christian area. There's no real Hezbollah presence here most of the time. [00:00:34] Well, based on all reports so far, all of those killed in that Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese town of A2 or A2 were Christian civilians, including ten women and two children. The rest were men, but none of them have been identified [00:00:51] as Hezbollah fighters or militants. Now in Lebanon overall, more than 2300 people, including 127 children, have been killed in Lebanon since the October 7th attack, and an estimated 1.2 million have been displaced. [00:01:06] Now, Hezbollah did target one of Netanyahu's homes in coastal Israel over the weekend. They did so through a drone strike, but the strike didn't hit his home. It ended up hitting a nearby building. Neither Netanyahu nor his wife were home at the time of this attack, [00:01:24] and the attack came a week after a Hezbollah drone attacked and killed four Israeli soldiers and wounded dozens of others at a military base in northern Israel. And so, as the war continues, more and more people are going to die. [00:01:41] And that includes people on the Israeli side, in this case soldiers, because that's typically what the Hezbollah fighters are targeting now. Netanyahu described the drone strike as an attempt to assassinate him, calling it a grave mistake. And he added that this will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing [00:01:58] our just war against our enemies. But when will this war end? And Israel apparently has an answer now. They have now made two very specific demands in order to end the war in Lebanon. [00:02:13] And those terms cannot be met because they go against international law, and it also violates the sovereignty of Lebanon. So I'm going to give you the details of that in just a minute. But I wanted to give you an opportunity to jump in. Yeah. So first of all, Netanyahu complaining about assassination attempts is rich. [00:02:32] I don't want anybody to get assassinated. But Netanyahu has launched a string of assassinations across the Middle East that is unprecedented and promises a lot more. So he's basically saying, I get to kill your leaders, but you don't get to kill our leaders. [00:02:47] And by the way, of course, American politicians and media agree. Why? Because their leaders are no good terrorists that are resisting his occupation. But when he kills 40 times the number of civilians as Yahya Sinwar, war. Magically, he's not a terrorist because he didn't intentionally kill [00:03:05] over 30,000 civilians. Even if you take the IDF numbers, he accidentally killed 30,000 civilians. Would anybody take that as an excuse if Hamas did it? Oh, guys, we meant to kill Israeli soldiers, but we accidentally killed 30,000 Israeli civilians, including 15,000 Israeli children. [00:03:24] Nobody would take that excuse. We'd call him a terrorist through and through every single day. And we'd say, of course they should. People should attempt to assassinate them. Now, I don't want assassinations on any side, but are we going to be fair about this? Of course not. No. Netanyahu is precious. [00:03:40] And how dare they and the others should all be murdered. I got it. So now, on the Christian town they hit in Lebanon. So before they used to not hit Christian towns because no one cares about Muslims. So you can kill as many Muslims as you like. And look, I grew up muslim. [00:03:58] Everyone I knew in Turkey was Muslim and their lives don't mean anything in America. If Israel killed them, no one would care at all. That's my family members. No one would care. But if you kill Christians, then people in America [00:04:13] get a little bit more upset, okay? Do they? No, no. Not so upset that they would ever cut a dollar from Israel. No. And I don't mean the politicians, in all seriousness, like, the politicians wouldn't care if you slaughtered half of Christendom as long as you sent them a check. And by the way, that's not just Israel. [00:04:28] It could be drug companies, health insurance companies, military industrial complex. You can kill anyone you like as long as you send American politicians a check. Okay. But for the actual American people, you start slaughtering Christians and you're going to have issues. But now Israel feels so confident that they have occupied Washington, D.C. [00:04:49] Enough that they kill anyone they like. That town reported the number one problem that reporters and, and, humanitarian workers said in that town was the smell of, of of rotting flesh. [00:05:04] So 23 people killed when I keep telling you this, and I'm sorry that it's it's so graphic, but you have to understand what our money is doing. When a bomb lands, it incinerates those people alive, including two children. They had to put some of the body parts of the children in Ziploc bags [00:05:23] because they were blown apart. So this is what our money is doing, and it's now doing it to Christians as well. I hope that that doesn't move you more than when it happens to Muslims. But but it just shows you there are no bounds left anymore for Netanyahu. [00:05:38] He will do anything, kill anyone. Right now in northern Gaza, UN is saying that it is a humanitarian catastrophe with death and deprivation. Everywhere you see the pictures, they look like they're straight out of the Holocaust. And so but now we're told no, Israelis are the moral ones. [00:05:57] Netanyahu, do you know this? Only 6% of Israel thinks that the government has gone too far in Gaza in regards to the Palestinian death toll and humanitarian conditions. Only 6% of the Israeli population thinks they went too far. So this is the situation we're in. [00:06:13] So let's get to Israel's demands in order to come to an end with this war in Lebanon. So we're not even talking about Gaza, by the way. We're just talking about another sovereign country. So Israel has apparently shared its conditions for ending the war in Lebanon [00:06:30] with the United States. And to me, it's clear that they literally want to occupy Lebanon. So two U.S. Officials and two Israeli officials who spoke to Axios on condition of anonymity, shared this so-called diplomatic solution with the U.S. [00:06:46] Last week. One Israeli demand is that the IDF be allowed to engage in active enforcement to make sure Hezbollah doesn't rearm and rebuild its military infrastructure in the areas of southern Lebanon that are close to the border, an Israeli official says. [00:07:04] And the official added that Israel also demands its air force have freedom of operation in Lebanese airspace. That means you run Lebanon. Yeah, that means that you are occupying Lebanon. - That's what that means. - So guys, what is an occupation? [00:07:19] Because now the Israelis do absurd things like say, no, we're not occupying anyone. The West Bank is not occupied. We withdrew from Gaza. Gaza is not occupied at all. Nothing is ever like, just don't believe your lying eyes. Those people are perfectly free. They can do anything they like. [00:07:37] That's absolutely a lie. Not just false, but an active lie. So when you don't control your own borders, you are occupied. When you don't control your own military, your own airspace, you are occupied. That means you are under the power of a foreign power, [00:07:53] okay, a different government. So and when they say they're going to do active enforcement in southern Lebanon, that means we're going to have the military, our military in your country, enforcing whatever the hell we like on your citizens. [00:08:09] That means you don't even have a country anymore. We now own Lebanon, and if you do anything we don't like, we're going to do active enforcement. And we're going to. Since we control the air completely, we're going to kill anyone we want in Lebanon at any time. If you disagree with us, that's an occupation that is a foreign power. [00:08:26] Control your your government completely. Now if you say, yeah, well, of course, because the Arabs are savages and can't be trusted, you're a racist. And and so that's obvious. And, and we can get into terms. Okay. But the bottom line is don't pretend [00:08:43] that Israel does not have a, you know, a desire to occupy and take the land of the Arabs nearby when they take more and more of the West Bank every single day, as we're talking where they are now intending to move into [00:09:00] northern Gaza with was settlers. That's why they're bombing them, starving them and moving them out. Going what? We gave them a warning to move. We gave him more warning that we're doing ethnic cleansing and genocide. And if they don't move, we're going to murder them and their children. [00:09:17] Well, they didn't move. They had it coming. Well, all of Hamas's leaders are dead. Who are you bombing? All of Hezbollah's leaders are dead. Who are you bombing? No. They had. This was never about self-defense. And they don't mind. We've told you the kids with the bullet holes in their heads. [00:09:32] And you see the starving children and the incinerated children. This is all about grabbing land. This is this. This. Israel has turned into exactly what they most feared and despised. And it is absolutely heartbreaking to see. So there are two demands are unworkable according to international law. [00:09:50] In fact, the UN Security Council Resolution 1701 indicates that this is unworkable. The resolution states that the Lebanese Armed Forces and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon enforce a cease fire between Israel and Hezbollah. [00:10:09] Now, what Israel wants to do, obviously would undermine Lebanon's sovereignty, and it would go against this UN Security Council resolution in response to that concern. An Israeli official said this. We are talking about 1701 with increased enforcement. [00:10:26] Our main message is that if the Lebanese Army and Unifil do more, the IDF will do less and the other way around. So, in other words, like we want to be that additional enforcement and we won't have to do much if the Lebanese military and Unifil do what we need them to do, [00:10:46] but it still flies in the face of a sovereign country's ability to remain a sovereign country and not have an occupying force within it. Yeah. Look, we're we try to be as fair as humanly possible. So Unifil, in my opinion, did not do a great job of enforcing that cease fire [00:11:04] from the Lebanese side because Hezbollah did entrench itself in southern Lebanon and they do fire rockets into Israel. So if you say, hey, wait a minute, should we change the leadership of Unifil? How do we enforce this cease fire in a way that's reasonable? That's all a reasonable conversation. [00:11:20] If you say Lebanon doesn't control its air anymore, we do that. You can't control southern Lebanon. Israel does. That's not a reasonable conversation. That's an occupation. That's oppression. And that will be fought day and night. And by the way, not only that, you'll ruin any moderation there is in Lebanon. [00:11:37] You'll create more radicalism. In 1.2 million Lebanese have been displaced. Now, do you think they're going to be allies of Israel, or do you think they might hate Israel for the rest of their lives? Families talking about well, we left everything behind. We've lost everything because we were so scared that Israel was [00:11:54] going to kill us, that we moved. Now we've got nothing left. Do you think that they're going to be great friends and allies of Israel going forward? No. Netanyahu's purposely driving hatred, so it leads to endless wars so he can stay in power and they can take more and more land [00:12:10] while pretending to defend themselves. I don't think that it's a mistake that the Israeli government is proposing to unworkable demands in order to end the war in Lebanon. I mean, it's very similar. It's a similar pattern to what we saw in the ceasefire, [00:12:28] ceasefire negotiations with Hamas. Finally, they would both both sides would agree, right, on a ceasefire deal, and then Netanyahu would change the terms to something that was unworkable because he didn't want a ceasefire. And I'm seeing a similar pattern so far in regard to Lebanon. [00:12:46] Hey, thanks for watching the video. We really appreciate it, guys, and we appreciate it if you become members, because that allows us to be independent, honest, progressive, all the things that you don't get from corporate media and all of that is because of you guys. Hit the join button below and become one of us. Become a young Turk.