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IDF is mostly composed of religious extremists or people who hate Muslims and Christians (most christians in the region are palestinians and lebanese). Some former SLA (South Lebanese Army, a Far-Right Christian Lebanese Terrorist Group supported by Israel during the 1970s - 2000) members have said that the IDF are now also attacking Pro-SLA Villages because they don't give a shit about having a puppet state anymore, they just want to destroy all villages and expel or kill the Lebanese Population.
I can’t believe the leopard would eat my face.
The SLA had already lost a lot autonomy by 1984 (they started around 1975, and established the Free Lebanon State), I think Israel plan after the SLA Leader died of cancer in 1982 was to annex the entire region, but then Hezbollah and their allies (some conservative muslim militias, socialists and some other christians who didn't like Israel) started to push Israel back a lot, by 1998 Israel had started to withdraw and leaving their positions for the SLA soldiers who immediatly went AWOL. By 2000 the entire "goverment" had collapsed with the most of their leaders and soldiers establishing a "goverment-in-exile" in Tel Aviv which is more or less just a weird LARPing group where they cry about Hezbollah, Saddam Hussein, Syria and Palestine.
While I would classify different Christian groups here as more strongly anti Zionist or more ambivalent, the SLA has no legacy in the form of “Pro-SLA” villages.
Even among the Christians who think the Zionists are our long lost secret brothers, the SLA (just “Jeish Lahad, “Lahad’s Army”) are virtually universally considered disgusting bloodthirsty monsters, at least by the older generation. They don’t get talked about when you’re trying to indoctrinate your kids into believing Lebanon is an eternally Christian nation.
Explicitly sectarian Christian nationalism here relies heavily on the aesthetics of “classy” Europeanness so it doesn’t really fit with it. The strongest case for this is the enduring hero-worship of Bachir, and the way he’s memorialized and aestheticized. Many of the better-off younger Christians who lean rightward don’t even know the SLA existed, while many Shia people grew up with stories of the SLA warcriming their relatives.
Now there were a lot of reports in 2024 and a few this time of Christian leaders and villages in the south getting assurances that they will be safe, I don’t think this is necessarily the legacy of the SLA. Probably the enemy trying to PR something out of the Christian population to make the invasion easier. South of the Litani, the Christian and mixed villages were liberated by the Hezb in 2000, so the perception of where everyone feels they are in the conflict is complicated.