November 26, 2024
6:00 pm
Indianapolis Liberation Center

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Join ANSWER Indiana and Maya El-Chal, President of Middle Eastern Student Association at IUI, for a discussion of the modern history of Lebanon. 

Over the past 50 years, Lebanon has been the subject of repeated military interventions by the U.S. and Israel, as well as a site of steadfast resistance. From 1982 to 2000, Israel brutally occupied southern Lebanon, subjecting its people to the same colonial violence that it has inflicted on the Palestinian people since the 1948 Nakba. However, history teaches us: wherever there is injustice, the struggle against it grows. 

Hezbollah—an organic movement of young fighters that emerged in response to Israel’s occupation—grew to be one of the world’s strongest non-state military forces in the world, and by the year 2000 forced Israel to withdraw. Since then, the resistance in Lebanon has prevented further Israeli invasions of their homeland, most spectacularly this year. Nearly two months into Israel’s attempted invasion of Lebanon, it has incurred major casualties, but failed to capture and hold a single village. 

To hear more about the history of resistance in Lebanon and get involved in the ongoing struggle for Palestinian and Lebanese liberation, join ANSWER Indiana for our monthly meeting. 

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