Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
The ongoing 'bloodbath' in Lebanon fueled Monday calls for the United States to cut off weapons to Israel , a demand that people around the world have made for nearly a year, as the country has massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
'There's no reason to believe that the Israelis will not go ahead and basically try to empty out a large section of the south and try to make the whole place totally uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.' Makdisi also said that Israel wouldn't have attacked Lebanon at this scale without a 'green light' from the Biden administration, saying, 'I think they've been given a kind of clear understanding that they have until the elections to do what they want.
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