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[Opinion. There are no words to describe Israel’s duplicity and viciousness. The facts speak for themselves.]

Izzy smokes Leb

Elia Ayoub

+972 Mag: 23 April 2026

https://www.972mag.com/israel-lebanon-civil-war-ceasefire/

During the two hours in which Israeli and Lebanese representative met with Marco Rubio on April 14, Israel bombed at least 23 towns in southern Lebanon.

This came less than a week after one of the most violent days in Lebanese history. On April 8, Israeli warplanes ravaged large parts of the country, killing at least 303 people and wounding 1,150. Israel dubbed the bombing campaign “Operation Eternal Darkness,” a grim reminder of what impunity in the face of the Gaza genocide has brought us: a rogue regime embracing lethal violence for its own sake. In the Bible, eternal darkness is a synonym of hell, and that is what Israel brought down on Lebanon that day. 

Lebanon is a signatory of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, in which most of the Arab League offered to formally recognize Israel in return for its withdrawal from the occupied territories and the creation of a Palestinian state — the so-called “land for peace” framework, which Israel has repeatedly declined. Lebanon was also among those to re-endorse the Arab Peace Initiative in 2007 and 2017.