He declared, “You are all suffering because of Hezbollah’s pointless war against Israel, Christians, Druze, and Muslims, Sunni and Shia.” “Take back your country by standing up.”
However, on Wednesday morning in the Christian, Shia, and Sunni neighborhoods of Beirut, Netanyahu’s plea was mostly, if not completely, ignored.
In his shop in Tariq El Jdideh, a Sunni neighborhood, Yusuf Habbal, 31, said, “Yes, we heard the address, but nobody here listens to Netanyahu.” Habbal was chopping traditional Lebanese sweets called kunafah.
Neither Netanyahu nor anyone else instructed him to occupy Palestine or Lebanon. This conflict is being led by the Israelis.
The day after the horrific incident on October 7, Hezbollah, a force more potent and better-equipped in Lebanon than the nation’s armed forces, started launching rockets into northern Israel one year ago in support of Hamas.
The Hezbollah rockets marked the start of a new stage in their conflict with Israel. Israel intensified the long-simmering conflict this month by expanding its bombing campaign over Lebanon, including Beirut, and then beginning a ground invasion in the country’s south.
