(23 September 2024)

Writing on X, Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli said over the weekend that a buffer zone should be created in southern Lebanon.

He said that „even though it has a flag and even though it has political institutions“, Lebanon „does not meet the definition of a country“.

He also posted images of maps questioning the current borders of Syria and Lebanon, referencing the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 that carved up the Levent into British and French spheres of influence.