The Assault on Lebanon
The Assault on Lebanon Ralph Nader May 30, 2026 Ralph speaks to independent investigative journalist Lylla Younes to discuss her reporting on Israel's assault on southern Lebanon. Then, Ralph and media studies professor Robin Andersen discuss her new book "The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of the Genocide in Gaza." Ralph Nader Radio Hour Episode 639 Transcript 123KB ∙ PDF file Download Lylla Younes is a Beirut-based journalist. She is an editor at The Public Source , and a frequent contributor to Drop Site News . What we’ve seen in the past several days is really an escalation of what’s been happening since March 2nd (when the US-Israeli assault on Iran took off) and then obviously the ceasefire… What we see is a campaign of ethnic cleansing from the Israeli military in Lebanon. And that has looked like the Gaza playbook sped up, you could say, in southern Lebanon. It’s looked like invading and bulldozing homes; tearing up roads; destroying, booby-trapping...