HUSSEIN CHOKR, @HuseinChokr, Hussein.Achokr@gmail.com
Chokr posted on Sunday: “This is my home burning. Israel claims it targeted a military facility, but it’s lying. This is the ‘Dahiya Doctrine,’ meant to terrorize us into submitting to its ambitions, silencing us, and forcing us to accept humiliation. Shame on its tyranny. This exactly what terrorism is!”
See explainer from Institute for Middle East Understanding: “The Dahiya Doctrine is an Israeli military doctrine that calls for the use of massive, disproportionate force and the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure.”
Chokr is a Beirut-based policy researcher at the American University of Beirut. He is a former conflict analyst on Lebanon and Syria at Search for Common Ground. He was previously a governance researcher at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, and research fellow at the Institute for Near and Middle East Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
He recently wrote the piece “How a regional war could devastate Middle Eastern economies” for Middle East Eye.