Twenty years since the liberation of South Lebanon
I am writing the first draft of this essay on the 25 th of May 2020. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the liberation of South Lebanon from a fifteen year-long Israeli occupation. A lot has happened since then, most notably a rewriting of Lebanese history about the role of the liberators of South Lebanon: the Islamic group Hizballah. History has been so thoroughly rewritten, and people have been so deeply brainwashed as to complete the amnesia that took place since the end of the Lebanese civil war. Sitting here in Canada, I can claim some distance and begin to recant some facts long forgotten by the Lebanese. From 1975 until 1989, Lebanese Christians and Muslims have killed one another mainly over religion. It was during these years that the most horrible incidents occurred in the nation’s existence. The most egregious examples were the Sabra and Shatila Massacre, the Massacre of Damour , and the killing of civilians on checkpoints based on the religion inscribed on their ide...