3 comments

  • ahhhhnoooo 1 hour ago
    Headline really deploying passive voice here. Israel's invasion and wide bombings of Lebanon is what has displaced a million people.
    • YZF 21 minutes ago
      No. It is Lebanon attacking Israel that resulted in Israel's self defense actions that resulted in the displacement. The displacement is due to Israel's warning to civilians to leave the area of fighting for their protection as it is required to do by international law. Lebanon is firing rockets into Israeli civilian population daily, this is a war crime.

      "Israel strikes Lebanon after Iran ally Hezbollah fires missiles over border"

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/israel-idf-str...

      • smusamashah 17 minutes ago
        And they are also using humans as shield? Is it only the enemies of Israel that use human shields or do criminals/terrorists in Israel (if there is such a thing) or any other country do that too?
        • YZF 12 minutes ago
          I'm not sure how we got to the human shield conversation but Hezbollah is firing from within civilian areas if that's the question: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-891166

          As to what's common between Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran in the way they treat their civilians I will leave that as an exercise to the reader.

    • poisonarena 1 hour ago
      when you let iranian militants dig into your neighborhoods and launch missles at their neighbors for years you have to deal with the consequences. they let their government and military get thoroughly cucked by foreign militias and now they get to live with it.
      • selimthegrim 27 minutes ago
        Does Iranian militants mean every local Shiite that Israel is now expelling?
        • YZF 20 minutes ago
          Israel is instructing civilians to leave the areas where there is fighting as is their responsibility under international law. When Hezbollah is disarmed by Lebanon and the war is over they can return.
      • Zealotux 58 minutes ago
        Keep on blaming the victims, as if you would have any say the day armed and organized militias would come into your neighborhood to do the same.
        • ahhhhnoooo 55 minutes ago
          The person you are replying to is probably someone who won't understand that the genocide Israel is perpetrating, the settler colonialism, the systemic abuses and torture and rape of prisoners, the invasion are all justified somehow.

          Some people cannot take a step back and consider other perspectives, unfortunately.

          Edit: see? Their response, "I like it"? This person is deeply troubled and misanthropic.

          • YZF 16 minutes ago
            Israel isn't colonizing Lebanon or abusing and torturing Lebanese. But Lebanon certainly abuses prisoners: https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/06/26/its-part-job/ill-treat...

            So by your logic it is fair game to attack Lebanon due to its treatment of prisoners?

            Lebanon also commits war crimes by firing rockets indiscriminately into Israeli population centers.

            Why is your rage so selective?

          • poisonarena 31 minutes ago
            I support Israel vanquishing their (our) enemies.
    • gryzzly 1 hour ago
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      • braebo 50 minutes ago
        What motivated hezbolah to form and engage in violence?
        • gryzzly 36 minutes ago
          money from iran and threat of violence by commanders
        • poisonarena 49 minutes ago
          to destroy israel
          • Daishiman 44 minutes ago
            What exactly was happening before Hezbollah was formed?
            • poisonarena 41 minutes ago
              the civil war caused by palestinian and muslim terrorists against christian lebanese
              • Daishiman 6 minutes ago
                It was the incessant attempts by Israel to invade Lebanon and the inaction of the Lebanese government but I guess your answer responds to your underlying allegiances.
  • icegreentea2 1 hour ago
    Seems there are two parallel developments here:

    a) Rise of alternate forms of organizing trust. People distrust government or other organizations, and turn to alternative forms of organization and trust.

    b) Rise of digital wallet/transfer systems that are fundamentally about charging for throughput/withdrawals. The article mentions that banks are restricting withdraws - presumably because banks need deposits to stay liquid. Whish on the other hand doesn't care - it makes money as a % of each transaction.

  • tokai 1 hour ago
    Hasn't Hawala been a thing in Lebanon for hundreds of years? It doesn't seem like a novel development at all, besides the digital tools. Informal money transfer systems are not new thing challenging the banks at all. The banks are the new thing here.