{"id":575,"date":"2026-05-26T03:33:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianewscast.com\/2026\/05\/26\/in-lebanon-everything-and-nothing-has-changed-since-2000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:33:02","slug":"in-lebanon-everything-and-nothing-has-changed-since-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asianewscast.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"In Lebanon, everything and nothing has changed since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__divider\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__update-reading-list-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"user-accounts-modal__container hidden\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"user-accounts-modal__container hidden\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"user-accounts-modal__container hidden\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"screen-reader-text\">Click here to share on social media<\/div>\n<p><title>share-nodes<\/title><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<div class=\"rich-share__links rich-share__links--row\" data-testid=\"share-links\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__social rich-share__social--row\"><a class=\"rich-share__social-link row\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Faje.news%2Fz1wawj\"><title>facebook<\/title><\/a><a class=\"rich-share__social-link row\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=In%20Lebanon%2C%20everything%20and%20nothing%20has%20changed%20since%202000&amp;source=sharethiscom&amp;related=sharethis&amp;via=AJEnglish&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Faje.news%2Fz1wawj\"><title>x<\/title><\/a><a class=\"rich-share__social-link row u-hidden--desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Share on Whatsapp\" href=\"\/\/send?text=https%3A%2F%2Faje.news%2Fz1wawj\"><title>whatsapp-stroke<\/title><\/a><a class=\"rich-share__social-link row copylink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Copy link\" href=\"https:\/\/aje.news\/z1wawj\"><span class=\"copylink__tooltip copylink__tooltip-hidden\"><\/span><title>copylink<\/title><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"article-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"responsive-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reuters_6a149921-1779734817.jpg?resize=770%2C513&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"Plumes of smoke billow from southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, May 25, 2026. REUTERS\/Stringer\"><\/div><figcaption>Plumes of smoke billow from southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, May 25, 2026. [Stringer\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"491\">Twenty-six years ago this week, Israel was forced to end an 18-year occupation of south Lebanon. Much has changed since, yet Lebanon and Israel still cling to the very policies that dragged them into today\u2019s war, a war that has engulfed Iran, drawn in the United States, and now threatens the global economy itself.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"1065\">Palestine remains the central issue reverberating across the region and the world. It is why Israel began attacking pro-Palestine forces in Lebanon in the 1970s, years before Hezbollah formed, and why that local conflict has widened ever since. Iran\u2019s backing of Hezbollah after 1982 turned Lebanon into a front line between Iran and Israel; today, with the United States fighting alongside Israel, that front has grown into a regional war. At its heart stands Hezbollah, the central pillar of the Iran-anchored \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d that opposes Israeli-American hegemony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"1067\" data-end=\"1305\">Lebanon might seem like a sideshow in this regional and global frame. But it deserves greater scrutiny precisely because it was, and remains, the spark that expanded 78 years of Israel-Lebanon-Palestine friction into today\u2019s regional war.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1307\" data-end=\"1930\">Much has changed in Lebanon since 2000. Advanced missile, drone and radar technology now shapes the balance of power, above all Iran and Hezbollah\u2019s growing ability often to evade US-Israeli air defences. Lebanon\u2019s economy has been shattered, its people driven from their homes again and again, and Israel has devastated towns and villages across the south, unleashing the doctrine of urban annihilation it forged in Beirut\u2019s Dahiyeh in 2006, and subsequently applied in Gaza.\u00a0Hezbollah was hit hard, but has been reborn as a leaner, more agile force that once again thwarts Israel\u2019s drive to subdue Lebanon, or carve out another permanent security zone inside it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1932\" data-end=\"2584\">The regional picture has shifted too. Syria\u2019s role as Hezbollah\u2019s link to Iran has collapsed, and Iran itself was damaged by the US-Israeli assault. Yet Tehran seems determined to see Lebanon covered by any regional deal that ends the war. The United States has openly sided with Israel, pressuring President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam to \u201cdisarm\u201d Hezbollah and remove a lingering threat to Israel, or else possibly face more Gaza-style destruction across Lebanon. Other powers, including China, Saudi Arabia, T\u00fcrkiye, Pakistan and Russia, have pressed in different ways to end the war on Iran and restore calm and Lebanese sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2586\" data-end=\"3131\">In the midst of this political whirlwind, several conditions from the pre-2000 era still prevail in Lebanon. The population remains split over Hezbollah\u2019s role as an armed movement offering the only impactful resistance to Israel. The government seems unable to act, politically or militarily, for lack of funds, domestic consensus or military clout. At times it bends to Israeli or American pressure: \u201cdisarming\u201d already marginalised Palestinian camps, or meeting Israeli officials in Washington under the aegis of Washington\u2019s pro-Israel bias.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3133\" data-end=\"3494\">Washington has also tied financial support for Lebanon\u2019s reconstruction to Beirut\u2019s compliance with US-Israeli terms. Its pro-Israel bias is clear in its readiness to ignore Israeli violations of the last two ceasefires, and in formally backing Israel\u2019s right to attack any Lebanese it deems a threat, while denying Lebanese threatened by Israel the same right.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3496\" data-end=\"3961\">The Lebanese government also feels the pressure of a disgruntled, deeply impoverished population, exasperated by relentless Israeli attacks that, in 2026 alone, have killed more than 3,000 people, forcibly displaced 1.2 million and devastated dozens of villages and small towns. It justifies its talks with Israel as an attempt to offset its military disadvantage, using US pressure to stop the attacks and let Beirut re-establish sovereign control over all its land.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3963\" data-end=\"4585\">Hovering above these old and new dynamics is a historic reality: Iran and Hezbollah, with support from allies abroad, absorbed the devastating Israeli-American assault and twice forced their far more powerful, nuclear-armed adversaries to accept a ceasefire and negotiate anew, first over Iran in early April, then over Lebanon days later. The Lebanon truce is now meant to fold into the wider US-Iran settlement. Both ceasefires seem to herald weakened US-Israeli positions in the region, deep political blows to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and new diplomatic leverage for Iran, Hezbollah and their allies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4587\" data-end=\"4956\">What lesson might we draw from all this? Perhaps that military power, however savage or genocidal, cannot forever\u00a0dictate realities across the Middle East. Buffer and \u201csecurity\u201d zones, new Israeli settlements, local pro-Israel accomplices, military outposts, relentless air strikes, the whole US-backed Israeli playbook, may all be consigned to the past if current trends hold.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4587\" data-end=\"4956\">How a new diplomatic balance will emerge in Lebanon remains to be seen. But Iran and Hezbollah, having survived their \u201cexistential\u201d battles and now pressing for permanent ceasefires, could weaken Israeli postures and help\u00a0reshape Lebanon\u2019s internal dynamics. Ideally this\u00a0could\u00a0prod Hezbollah, the Beirut government and all Lebanese to settle, once and for all, on a serious long-term approach to mutually beneficial relations with an Israel that fully respects Lebanese sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5415\" data-end=\"5730\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Were that to happen, it would press all sides to resolve, fairly, the central issue they have ignored for 78 years and that has fuelled permanent war: Palestinian rights. Only mature and decisive diplomacy, alongside legitimate defence strategies, will determine whether current trends lead to that desired outcome.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>The views expressed in this article are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera\u2019s editorial stance.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink Plumes of smoke billow from southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, May 25, 2026. [Stringer\/Reuters] Twenty-six years ago this week, Israel was forced to end an 18-year occupation of south Lebanon. 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