https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/d...oposal-for-humanitarian-aid-to-lebanon-673008
In a speech on Sunday marking the opening of Israel’s first monument to the Southern Lebanon Army, which fought alongside the IDF during Israel’s presence in southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000, Gantz offered assistance.
Now Gantz has made a new offer to Lebanon, during its crisis of impoverishment, this time of unspecified aid – “Israel has offered to help Lebanon in the past, and today as well, we are prepared to work to help it grow and get out of this crisis.” Food shipments? Medicines? Financial aid? All of the above? Whatever Lebanon needs, Israel stands ready to help, so far the only country to make such an offer.
And whatever help Israel offers, Hezbollah will make sure the Lebanese government turns it down flat or, more likely, ignores it altogether..
You won’t read or see many stories about Gantz’s good-samaritan offer, and Lebanon’s certain refusal of it, because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the wicked “colonial settler” state of Israel mistreating the Palestinians and other Arabs. That’s why I decided to post news of that Israeli offer here. Feel free to spread the word.
Lebanon’s current impoverishment is the result of many years of mismanagement and corruption by a succession of governments, now kept in power by Hezbollah, whose members are in both the cabinet and in the Lebanese Parliament; the Maronite President, Michel Aoun, is also a willing collaborator with the terror group.
Israel has no quarrel with the country of Lebanon, but only with Hezbollah. In the past it helped the Christians of Lebanon, by supporting the Army of South Lebanon against Hezbollah. More recently, Israel offered humanitarian aid to Lebanon after the huge explosion at the Port of Beirut last August (an explosion for which Hezbollah was responsible). That offer of aid was turned down; the Lebanese government was more concerned with angering Hezbollah than it was in helping its own people.
In a speech on Sunday marking the opening of Israel’s first monument to the Southern Lebanon Army, which fought alongside the IDF during Israel’s presence in southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000, Gantz offered assistance.
After the Beirut explosion in August 2020 left 200 dead and 6,000 wounded, Israel offered the Lebanese humanitarian aid, including medicine, and also declared its readiness to treat in its own hospitals some of the 6,000 Lebanese wounded in the blast. The Lebanese government, in thrall to Hezbollah, refused the offer. And the world’s media mostly ignored the Israeli offer, not wanting to report anything that might make the Jewish state look good. Nor would the international media have wanted to report on how Hezbollah made the Lebanese government turn down the offer of Israeli aid, which showed clearly how Hezbollah was determined to have no dealings with Israel, even at the expense of severely wounded Lebanese.
Now Gantz has made a new offer to Lebanon, during its crisis of impoverishment, this time of unspecified aid – “Israel has offered to help Lebanon in the past, and today as well, we are prepared to work to help it grow and get out of this crisis.” Food shipments? Medicines? Financial aid? All of the above? Whatever Lebanon needs, Israel stands ready to help, so far the only country to make such an offer.
And whatever help Israel offers, Hezbollah will make sure the Lebanese government turns it down flat or, more likely, ignores it altogether..
You won’t read or see many stories about Gantz’s good-samaritan offer, and Lebanon’s certain refusal of it, because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the wicked “colonial settler” state of Israel mistreating the Palestinians and other Arabs. That’s why I decided to post news of that Israeli offer here. Feel free to spread the word.
