In the Progressive International's 38th Briefing of 2024, we bring you news from Lebanon and the spiraling illogic of “de-escalation by escalation”. If you would like to receive our Briefing in your inbox, you can sign up using the form at the bottom of this page.
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Once again Israeli military forces muster to the North, preparing to invade Lebanon. On Wednesday, Herzi Halevi, the head of Israel’s military, set out the plan to his troops in plain terms. “Your military boots,” he said, “will enter enemy territory.”
And on Saturday, Israel warplanes assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, in a ruthless assault that flattened an entire bloc of residential buildings in Beirut with US “bunker-buster” bombs, killing hundreds in the process.