Israeli leaders’ game plan for wiping out southern Lebanese society is more or less the same one they’ve followed in Gaza and the West Bank. They aim to deprive those populations of all elements necessary for a decent life: shelter, livelihoods, food, water, health care, education, and more. In these genocidal sieges, occupation forces are also attacking the local ecosystems in which the societies are embedded. This ravaging of animals, plants, soils, and water bodies isn’t just collateral damage. This is an intentional ripping apart of ecological relationships which, among many other things, make human society physically and culturally possible.
