Why the ceasefire in Lebanon won’t stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions (+972 Magazine, 2026-04-16)

Why the ceasefire in Lebanon won’t stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions (+972 Magazine, 2026-04-16)

972mag.com/israel-lebanon-ceas
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>> Israel’s push for buffer zones and 'natural borders' suggests the emerging ceasefire is unlikely to halt its ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon.

>> … why is Israel insisting on this antiquated plan [to establish buffer zones], openly carrying out mass ethnic cleansing in its service? It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the causality is, in fact, reversed. Just as in #Gaza, where buffer zones serve as a pretext to corral residents of the already crowded enclave into 12 percent of its territory; just as in the West Bank, where “security areas” and “firing zones” have been used to disrupt Palestinian agriculture and push communities off the land, what we are seeing in #Lebanon is buffer zones in service of ethnic cleansing, not the other way around…

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