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The Obliteration Doctrine: Weaponizing Ecology as the New Frontier of Colonial War

The Lebanese government has accused Israel of committing deliberate 'ecocide' in southern Lebanon, destroying 5,000 hectares of forest and causing massive agricultural and environmental damage with an estimated total cost exceeding $25 billion. This is not collateral damage but a systematic, weaponized strategy of ecological obliteration, an extension of the same brutal doctrine that has rendered Gaza uninhabitable, revealing a horrifying new frontier in colonial violence where the biosphere itself is now the target.