NYT: Israel’s Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go. Israel has issued sweeping evacuation warnings, and pressed some Christian and Druse leaders to expel Shiite Muslims from southern towns, the leaders said.

I’m not promoting this thing, it’s bad. But I’m also against exaggerating and twisting this into something it isn’t. You seem to be avoiding a certain elephant in the room. Also: not ethnic. Religious. Also: not “cleansing” in the sense of killing people. Israel has no way to do a full ground op to remove Hezbollah terrorists embedded into normal society. Also: Shiites are the ones who have been butchering Druze for years. You’ve seen the videos, yes? So, Israel is simply turning groups who are already enemies of each other on each other to ease their own dealings and minimize casualties on the side (Christians and Druze) who as a matter of faith aren’t involved in terrorism. It’s a very crude way of telling hostages to push the terrorists in a certain direction, rather than be collaterally injured when fo part of fafo codes to the terrorists. Given: not all those Shiites are terrorists; and playing a somewhat wicked game by turning up the flame between those who already are both brothers and enemies. I’ll give you that.