Mount Tsifya, Israel — From an observation post overlooking the breathtakingly beautiful mountains on Israel’s border with Lebanon, Lt.-Col Jordan Herzberg points to a scarred hillside where a town used to be.

Lebanon’s Kfar Kila was badly thumped during an Israeli offensive against Hezbollah, and further reduced to rubble by construction contractors engaged by Israel to largely wipe it from the Earth; it is now essentially a few roads with intermittent piles of rocks and vague outlines of what used to be houses.

Herzberg said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found what were essentially “fake homes” there, filled with missiles and soldiers’ rations and uniforms. It was the same story in settlements all along the Lebanese border, including in Christian towns that were essentially o

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