Lebanese on Social Media Desperate to Stop Hezbollah-Prompted War

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While Hasan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, repeats in Beirut the threats of his puppet-masters in Tehran, who have described the massive destruction they are prepared to visit on the “Zionist entity,” many Lebanese, horrified at what they see as a march toward war with Israel, have been filling social media with both their anguished calls for peace, and with denunciations of Hezbollah for dragging the country into a war that almost all Lebanese, save for the members of Hezbollah, do not want, for they remember what happened to the country in the 2006 Lebanon War. More on their on-line campaign to stop Nasrallah in his dangerous tracks can be found here: “‘Lebanon doesn’t want war’: Online campaign targets Hezbollah,” by Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2024:

As Israel and Hezbollah exchange deadly blows at the border and threats of an imminent war are sounded daily, some activists and media personalities in Lebanon who oppose the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah have come out with a series of videos and online campaigns in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to turn public opinion in the Land of Cedars against the prospects of war with Israel.

One salient example of these efforts is the hashtag “Lebanon doesn’t want war,” which had almost 40,000 appearances over the last month alone, garnering roughly 100,000 engagements and a potential reach of almost 30 million users. The hashtag was also accompanied by a series of infographics and other hashtags, such as “Disarming Hezbollah is vital” and “Resolution 1701,” [the UN Resolution which required Hezbollah to withdraw its forces well north of the Litani River] which were shared by a wide array of Lebanese activists on social media.

Some commentators directly addressed Hezbollah and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Nancy Nessrine Lakiss, a Lebanese journalist from Elsharq press, posted a picture showing a white dove with the slogan “We shout for peace, not for war,” adding: “Hezbollah published a video from its military media provoking Israel, so Israel decided to threaten us with bombing the airport. Please have mercy on us! How can you bear this much blood and death? Who will build Lebanon again? And if it is built, who will live in the houses after all this destruction and killing?”

In another viral post, Lakiss turned directly to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, demanding: “Mr. Nasrallah, you negotiate for the rights of the Palestinians, but have you forgotten their actions during our civil war, such as violating our women? [a reference to rapes of Christian women by Palestinian women during the 1975-1990 civil war between Christians and Muslims]. Do you value the blood of the Lebanese in your decisions regarding the war? Justice must begin with our country first!

A Christian user named Chris shared a video showing the testimony of an elderly displaced lady who left her home in Southern Lebanon with her family, adding: “Do you want to liberate Jerusalem? You want to destroy Lebanon, displace its people, and kill them … You are worse than the enemy … You are the devil himself… Just let this people live … let these people raise their children in a country in peace and security!”

Another user taunted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah: “Lebanon has gone underground…in the image of Nasrallah. From a country that is friendly and open to countries around the world: American, European, Arab, Gulf, and others, a Lebanon towering above the cedars of the mountains – It is now ruled from underground!” [where Nasrallah is thought to be cowering]…

These are the anguished of Lebanon. Their country is again being pulled by Nasrallah and his goose-stepping bezonians into a war they do not want, for they know the result will be devastation of the country by Israeli airstrikes, setting it back — after the Lebanese had laboriously built up its infrastructure after the 2006 war — by many decades. Such a war will also lead to a colossal brain drain: the young and educated Lebanese will not want to remain in a country where Hezbollah continues to hold sway, and does the bidding of a malignant Iran that is indifferent to the wellbeing of the Lebanese.

Hassan Nasrallah won’t listen to their online outcries, their videos, their cartoons, but perhaps France, the traditional supporter of the Lebanese Christians, with the diplomatic and financial backing of the other members of the European Union, will be able to convince Nasrallah not to drag the Lebanese into yet another disastrous military adventure, that this time might lead to the permanent undoing of the state.