As Israel officially began its invasion of south Lebanon this week, a sense of déjà vu immediately struck people who have been living through or observing Israel’s year-long war on Gaza. Whether indiscriminate bombing tactics known as “fire belts”; flattening entire residential blocks; ethnically cleansing entire villages; dehumanising civilians as “human shields”; targeting medics and journalists; or even calling for building settlements, Israel is now openly copying its brutal tactics from Gaza in Lebanon, after the world allowed it to get away with flagrant war crimes and crimes against hum…