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Lebanese filmmaker Youssef El-Khoury said in an October 24, 2024, appearance on MTV (Lebanon) that he is upset it wasn't the Lebanese people who got rid of the "plague Hizbullah." He added that all the Lebanese people are relying on Israel to eliminate Hizbullah because they do not know how to do it. El-Khoury stated that the Lebanese must choose whether they wish to have a "resistance" identity or join the new age in the region, an Israeli age, or a "Pax Israeliana." He expressed enjoyment in having his August interview translated by MEMRI, which he described as "one of the most important research institutes in America."
Interviewer: "As a Lebanese, did you not feel proud [in 2006] to see the Lebanese resistance facing the Israeli army? Didn't you feel proud when you saw Hassan Nasrallah saying 'watch [the Israeli ship] burn,' and at that moment it was bombed?"
Youssef El-Khoury: "I need to recognize him as a resistance fighter before I can be proud of him. I have never seen him as a resistance fighter, or as someone who liberated south Lebanon. I saw him as someone who occupied south Lebanon.
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"I am upset that it wasn't us – since 2006 and to this day – who managed to get rid of the plague called Hizbullah."
Interviewer: "But are we relying on Israel to liberate us?"
El-Khoury: "Who should I rely on? I am just one person. I can walk out of here and a car would run me over and break my neck. What do I know? All the Lebanese are relying on Israel. They are all liars. They are all waiting for Israel, because they do not know how to tell Hizbullah to hand over its weapons and stand trial, for destroying Lebanon twice.
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"Some people want Lebanon's identity to be an identity of resistance. You have two choices. Either you go for that, and continue to take beatings for 50 years more, or you can choose to join the new age that has entered the region."
Interviewer: "The Israeli age?"
El-Khoury: "Yes, the Israeli age. We have been through the Syrian age, the Pax Syriana, and from there, we moved to the Pax Iraniana, and now we have embarked on the Pax Israeliana. Note, it is nothing new when it comes to Lebanon."
Interviewer: "You can stand trial and go to prison for saying this."
El-Khoury: "So I will stand trial but the people who have destroyed Lebanon will not stand trial?"
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Interviewer: "Your opinions serve Israel."
El-Khoury: "How come my opinions serve Israel? Do you think that the Israelis, who know everything that is going on, are waiting for my interview on MTV, in order to benefit from my opinions? How can Israel benefit from my opinions? All that happened was that one of my interviews was translated by an American research institute called MEMRI. I did not know anything about it, but it turns out that it is one of the most important research institutes in America. When it translated my interview, people saw it, and a Jewish TV channel and Fox News both commented about it.
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"I enjoyed this, but how can I benefit Israel? Seriously, why do you think I have anything to give to the Israelis?"
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