Analysis compares Israel's Gaza strategy to 2006 Lebanon war

The Gaza model: is this what war looks like now? | Mohamad Bazzi

Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel’s strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself Shortly after 2pm on 8 April, it seemed that Beirut was hit by an earthquake. Within 10 minutes, multiple apartment buildings were obliterated, leaving in their wake mounds of rubble and shattered glass, pulverized concrete and twisted metal – and hundreds of dead and wounded bodies. In those minutes, Israel had carried out one of the worst ma...

By Mohamad Bazzi