Once again, Itamar Ben-Gvir staged his extremism at the Al-Aqsa compound, surrounded by a crowd of his fascist supporters, repeating his claim of Israel’s “exclusive ownership” of the site. At the very same moment, while some sought to convince the Lebanese public that their leadership was engaged in “serious negotiations” with Israel aimed at defusing the crisis, Israel’s war machine continued its geopolitical assault, replicating in southern Lebanon the lethal displacement strategy it has pursued in Gaza.