The Resistance Front in South Lebanon

Kassir, Samir; Rountree, Meredith Martin; Paul, Jim

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“…It is both a military reality and a necessary existential stance against the consuming and annihilating realities of capitalism, nationalism, and war. Locally grown armed resistance in South Lebanon (Chomsky, 1984; Kassir, 1985) successfully expelled the Israeli occupation (Norton, 2000), an unprecedented historical event. But the ability of life to persevere in these farming villages amid ever‐returning gusts of war is also (key to that) resistance.…”

Section: Decolonizing Warmentioning

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Resistant ecologies

Khayyat¹

2022

American Ethnologist

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In South Lebanon, war is lived as landscape, environment, milieu. Those pursuing life in such quarters do what they can to make-live, and their lifelines are often as vitalizing as they are deadly: tobacco farmers ally themselves with what they call a "bitter crop" that flourishes in an arid war zone, while pastoralists walk in explosive fields with their mineevading goats. These multispecies alliances flourish because they can survive the deadly infrastructures of war. Dwelling alongside two steadfast families in the borderlands of South Lebanon, this ethnography of life in war moves away from tropes of trauma to grasp a militarized world from within the lived terrain of its operations. Neither greentinged utopia nor total devastation, these resistant ecologies make being possible in an insistently deadly region. Thinking life from disastrous war zones forces anthropological theory to reckon with harsh ethnographic realities while bringing to light unsung alliances of hope for life ongoing.

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Section: Decolonizing Warmentioning

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Resistant ecologies

Khayyat¹

2022

American Ethnologist

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“…The Social National Syrian Party and the Amal Movement (the acronym for the Lebanese Resistance Battalions) also fought against the Zionist enemy to liberate the South. The Zionist enemy, however, created what was known as the South Lebanese Army (SLA) made up of right-wing Lebanese army personnel and other individuals and aided the Zionist enemy in controlling the South (Kassir, 1985). It is important to note that the fastest growing Lebanese military group fighting the Zionist occupation was the Islamic Resistance Movement formed in 1982.…”

Section: Lebanon: Zionist Occupation Tai'f and Liberating The Southmentioning

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The Axis Of Resistance And Imperialism In West Asia

Aoudé¹

2022

ASQ

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The main thesis in this article is that the Axis of Resistance, at the center of which is the Palestinian struggle for liberation against the settler-colonial entity (Zionist entity) in Palestine, leads the fight against imperialism in West Asia. This struggle must be situated in its regional and global context. West Asia (and North Africa) is a region in which rivalry and animosity among regional and global state and non-state actors have accelerated since the beginning of the twenty-first century. The US, in collaboration with NATO, has sought to dominate the region, beginning with the demise of the USSR in 1990, but increasingly so since 2000. A critical point in the discussion is the organic relationship between the US and the Zionist entity in Palestine, which was created to keep the Arab East and West Asia, in general, within the Western imperialist fold. Multiple wars, uprisings and instability have transpired that can best be explained in the context of global capitalism dominated by the US as a singular player leading a pliable Europe and more often than not succeeding in arranging the political map of the world in its own image. Challenges to a unilateral globalizing world soon followed complicating the international scene militarily, politically, and economically. A consequence of this development has been an increasingly unstable international situation. This confluence of events compelled state and non-state actors in West Asia that belong to the Axis of Resistance to tread gingerly and weigh their moves so as not to come, at least prematurely, into direct conflict with US hegemony. In this milieu, the Zionist entity in Palestine stepped up the oppression of the Palestinian people and ramped up their ethnic cleansing and confiscation of Palestinian lands. While the Palestinian liberation movement had benefited from the relationship between it and the regional front against US global hegemony, considerations and calculations of this front often compelled it to readjust its tactical (and sometimes strategic) considerations to maintain the global alliance opposing US hegemony. Taking advantage of this reality the Zionist entity continues to increase the pressure on the Palestinians while attempting to degrade the capabilities of the Resistance front in clear support of US regional strategy. In May 2021 the Palestinian Resistance forced the settler-colonial entity to temporarily retreat from effecting its settler-colonial machinations in Palestine. In May 2022 the Palestinians, building on the successes of their confrontation with the existential enemy have thwarted imperialist, Zionist, and reactionary Arab calculations to defeat them. A plethora of recent examples demonstrated this point. Currently, facts on the ground show that the Palestinian Resistance has opposed regional compromise and capitulation to Western imperialism by some state actors. This opposition to US imperial strategy is the sine qua non for a dynamic confrontation by the Axis of Resistance in West Asia to defeat the US hegemon.

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War, from the South

Khayyat¹

2023

Public Culture

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In South Lebanon, like other places across the Global South, war is experienced as an enduring condition that makes worlds even as it destroys them—worlds that continue to be lively, if also deadly. What theory of war might be adequate to these worlds? This essay shifts the terrain and the terms in which war is grasped by sourcing a theory of war from a resistantly inhabited battlefield of the Global South. Placing war alongside other more normalized sites of modern violence this essay seeks to decolonize theories of war and to bring to light vitalizing ecologies of practice that underwrite resistant life in deadly quarters.

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The Resistance Front in South Lebanon

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