I too grew up in Lebanon. When I was only five years old, Palestinian gunmen, in coordination with local militias, helped ethnically cleanse Christians from southern Mount Lebanon. In September 1983, they and their allies displaced tens of thousands of Christians from the Shouf and Aley regions, slaughtering at least 1,500 people in the process.

This was not an isolated episode. In January 1976, Palestinian factions carried out what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing of the Lebanese Civil War in the coastal city of Damour. At least 300 civilians—women, children, and the elderly—were murdered, and thousands more were driven from their homes. These were Lebanese civilians, killed in their own country by foreign armed groups.

@TaghridAlMawed should be ashamed—unequivocally—for two reasons. First, she is falsifying history by portraying Palestinians as nothing more than victims in Lebanon. That is a distortion. Palestinian militias were not passive actors; they were perpetrators. They helped trigger the civil war in 1975, killed thousands of Lebanese Christians, contributed to the fragmentation of the country, and later turned their guns on one another (Abu Musa vs. Arafat) as well as on Lebanese factions such as Shia Amal during the War of the Camps (1985–1988). The scale of violence and devastation they inflicted on Lebanon—a country that had taken them in—cannot simply be erased or rewritten.

Second, and even more reprehensible, is her willingness to exploit the deaths of two recently killed individuals in Lebanon for political point-scoring. These deaths occurred in a context entirely unrelated to a civil war that ended 36 years ago. Yes, Pierre Moawad was a Lebanese Forces activist. But unlike Palestinian gangs in the camps, or Hezbollah, the Lebanese Forces have long disarmed and operate today as a political party. To circulate images of the newly dead in order to resurrect old conflicts and weaponize their deaths is not just irresponsible—it is morally indefensible. Then again I am not surprised because I expect no better from extremist Palestinian activists.

It’s remarkable that the vast majority of people of the Middle East across nations (even some who are enemies of each other…) all see the same problem with the Islamic regime’s occupation of Lebanon through Hezbollah, while useful idiots in Europe and the U.S. Democratic Party think they know better than those of us who live here what’s going on. Unlike them, we know:

• 1. Hezbollah must be dismantled and disarmed.
• 2. Hezbollah is using human shields and terrorising the people of Lebanon.
• 3. UNIFIL and the Lebanese army have failed to disarm Hezbollah for decades despite billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars being poured into it.
• 4. The IDF is targeting Hezbollah.
• 5. Temporary displacement is to protect civilians, not harm them.
• 6. Israel’s war objectives are enforcing international law and UNSC res. 1701 and 1559, bc the UN is too weak and cowardly to do it themselves.

So to all the European leaders and the American democrats talking out their ass about Lebanon and how there should be a ceasefire? After you did nothing for decades while Lebanese and Israelis suffered from the Khomeinism YOU enabled?