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\"\"<\/a>An All-American Retort to Israel\u2019s Invasion of Lebanon<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard, Libertarian Institute\u00a0 April 24 2026<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s bombing of Lebanon has reportedly killed more than a thousand civilians this year. Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians from southern Lebanon as part of an effort to commandeer that territory. Israel\u2019s bombing has been so indiscriminate that even President Donald Trump objected. On Truth Social, Trump announced: \u201cIsrael will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED<\/span><\/a> from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heeds Trump\u2019s command. Israeli has continued bombing Lebanon but not as vociferously as it previously did.<\/p>\n

The attacks are reminiscent of Israel\u2019s 2006 invasion of Lebanon, which also killed roughly a thousand civilians<\/span><\/a>, as well as a few hundred Hezbollah fighters. With the W. Bush White House cheerleading all the way, Israel assailed Lebanon in response to Hezbollah\u2019s seizure of two Israeli soldiers. Israel and Hezbollah had been exchanging bombs and missiles for years prior to Israel\u2019s launching a bombing campaign that soon expanded to include much of Lebanon. The carnage was wildly popular on Capitol Hill, where the U.S. House of Representatives voted 410-8 in favor of a resolution endorsing Israeli military action. Hezbollah thwarted the invasion in one of the biggest defeats for the Israeli military since the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.<\/p>\n

On August 12, 2006, thousands of people gathered near the White House to protest American support for the Israeli attacks on Lebanon. While some zealots portrayed Arabs as innately hostile to the United States and its allies, this photo I snapped of a mother and daughter marching along captured the all-American reality of many supporters of Lebanon. The mother is wearing traditional Lebanese garb and carrying both a U.S. flag and a Lebanese flag. The daughter is soaking up the scene while chomping on a popsicle. This is a pair that would have fit in with practically any American Fourth of July celebration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Another shot captured a protestor lady with a smile so robust it almost cracked the lens of my Nikon point-and-shoot camera that day.<\/p>\n

There were plenty of Arab Americans on the scene who were confounded to see the U.S. government supporting the attacks on their kinfolks. The sign in front of the White House reflects perhaps na\u00efve optimism that President George W. Bush would do anything to stop the bombing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. government has been perennially dragged into Lebanese quagmires since the Reagan er<\/strong>a. In June 1982, a terrorist organization headed by Abu Nidal (the Osama bin Laden of the 1980s) attempted to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in London. Nidal\u2019s forces had previously killed many Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) officials in numerous bomb and shooting attacks, since they considered Yasir Arafat a traitor for his stated willingness to negotiate with Israel. Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel exploited the shooting in London to send the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) into Lebanon to crush the PLO. Yet, as Thomas Friedman noted in his book From Beirut to Jerusalem<\/em>, \u201cThe number of Israeli casualties the PLO guerrillas in Lebanon actually inflicted [was] minuscule (one death in the 12 months before the invasion).\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Defense Minister Ariel Sharon told the Israeli cabinet that his 1982 \u201cOperation Peace for Galilee\u201d would extend only 40 kilometers into Lebanon. However, Sharon sent his tanks to Beirut, determined to destroy the PLO once and for all. As David Martin and John Walcott noted in their 1988 book, Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America\u2019s War against Terrorism<\/em>, the U.S. embassy in Beirut \u201csent cable after cable to Washington, warning that an Israeli invasion would provoke terrorism and undermine America\u2019s standing in the Arab world, but not a word came back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Red Crescent estimated that 14,000 people, most of them civilians, were killed or wounded in the first month of the operation. When Palestinians fought back tenaciously, the IDF responded with indiscriminate bombing, killing hundreds of civilians. The Israelis cut off Beirut\u2019s water and electricity supply and imposed a blockade. The IDF bombed the buildings housing the local bureaus of the Los Angeles Times<\/em>, United Press International, and Newsweek<\/em>. American <\/span>publications gave far more coverage to Israeli carnage against civilians back then than they have allotted in the current conflict.<\/p>\n

U.S. troops were sent to Beirut to help buffer a cease-fire. After the U.S. military intervened against Muslims in the Lebanese Civil War, a Muslim truck bomber killed hundred<\/span><\/a>s of U.S. Marines in October 1983. Ronald Reagan responded to that debacle by pulling U.S. troops out of Lebanon, one of the few bright spots in U.S. policy in that part of the world in the last half century.<\/p>\n

It would be foolish to expect the Trump White House to consistently show either the wisdom or courage of some of Reagan\u2019s policymakers long ago. I have the same recommendation now that I had in a 1987 USA Today<\/em> piece<\/span><\/a> opposing deployment of the U.S. Navy to the Persian Gulf: \u201cThis is not our war, and there is no profit in U.S. intervention.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

GTFO remains the best Middle East policy for America.<\/strong><\/p>\n

****<\/p>\n

For more on the Middle East conflicts, check out my 2003 book, Terrorism & Tyranny: <\/strong>Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil<\/strong> <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22596,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions\/22596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}