Better known to many through her Instagram account @leb.historian which has gained a large audience especially since Lebanon's 17 October Revolution, Chloe Kattar joins us on This Is Not a Watermelon for a special podcast episode to contextualize the current Israeli war on Lebanon. We focus on Israeli propaganda and discuss Zionist expansionist agenda and the ways in which these imperial narratives are disseminated. Kattar gives us a quick history of Israel's aggressions on Lebanon which started decades before October 7. She dismantles vague terms weaponized by the the Israeli occupation such as "Hezbollah Infrastructure", clarifies the ambiguities of the "Dahiyeh Doctrine", and explains the impact of drones and psychological warfare on a civilian population.

This episode was recorded on Tuesday October 22nd, 4:30 pm Beirut Time. 

0:00 Introduction 
1:16 Information Wars & Israeli Propaganda 
8:40 Israeli Messaging & Narratives to Western Audiences 
11:32 Chronology of the War in Lebanon 
22:05 Zionist Agenda in Lebanon 
24:51 Awareness in the West 
27:09 Relating Palestine & Lebanon 
32:07 The "Dahiyeh Doctrine"
38:19 Drones & Psychological Warfare 
41:32 Resource Recommendations 

Chloe Kattar is a research fellow in history at Darwin College, at the University of Cambridge. She is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a specific interest in the global movement and exchange of ideas between the Arab-speaking world and Western societies. 

Connect with Chloe 👉 https://www.instagram.com/leb.historian/

Hosted by: 
Mikey Muhanna 👉 https://www.instagram.com/mikey_mu/?hl=en-gb

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