Carving Up the Border: Deconstructing Israel’s Buffer Strategy in Lebanon and Syria

Western media routinely frames “buffer zones” as neutral, defensive measures designed to stabilize volatile borders, but the ground reality across southern Lebanon and southwestern Syria reveals a deliberate strategy of asymmetrical territorial reduction. Israel’s land grabs In southern Lebanon, Israeli military operations enforce this strategy through the systematic demolition of border villages, destruction of civilian […] By Mohamad Kleit