An Empire Problem: On the Ground in Southern Lebanon (with Courtney Bonneau)

Prevail with Greg Olear

Greg Olear & MSW Media

Politics, News, News Commentary

5.0 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What began, officially, as a mission to attack Hezbollah leadership and military strongholds is now indisputably much larger and, by all indications, more imperial. Israel is applying what it terms a “Gaza model” to the region south of Lebanon’s Litani River–meaning the leveling of buildings and destruction of civilian infrastructure. Its finance minister explicitly revealed plans to annex the territory, decreeing that “The Litani must become [Israel’s] new border with the state of Lebanon.” The codename of the operation–Eternal Darkness–does not suggest that this is going to end any time soon. On today’s PREVAIL podcast, Greg Olear speaks with the Middle East-based photojournalist Courtney Bonneau, who has been reporting live from the war zone of southern Lebanon, about the devastation she’s seeing on the ground.

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0:38.1	I'm Greg Oliar. This is Prevail. Welcome to the program. We've got a great show. Courtney
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1:25.9	Courtney is a photographer who is based in the Middle East, and she's
1:31.2	been around a bunch of countries doing photographic work and was in southern Lebanon, living
1:39.8	in southern Lebanon, working there when the war broke out, and she has been documenting what's going on
1:47.1	there on the ground during the Israeli invasion. So she has a great Twitter presence and Instagram page
1:55.0	where she brings you, you know, live accounts of what's happening on the ground and documenting the war crimes that are
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