Fawaz Gerges: ‘This is a war on the Lebanese people’

Lebanese-American academic and author Fawaz Gerges explains why he is against the mainstream media narrative that the current conflict in Lebanon is between the Israeli army and the resistance group Hezbollah.

Lebanese-American academic and author Fawaz Gerges explains why he is against the mainstream media narrative that the current conflict in Lebanon is between the Israeli army and the resistance group Hezbollah pic.twitter.com/rfd2J5CSRI

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