South Lebanon's History of Resistance

South Lebanon's History of Resistance

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The Israeli destruction of south Lebanon, with Bint Jbeil having been apparently wiped off the face of the earth, and some of Nabatieh in ruins as Israeli troops besiege it, is only the latest way in which the outside world has shaped this region, as Karim Eid-Sabbagh argued in a fine paper on “A brief history of tobacco, colonialism, neo-colonialism, and imperial war in south Lebanon.” People in south Lebanon were p…