As the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah drags on and the international community expresses outrage toward Israel, the Lebanese people are pointing the finger at a different culprit: the terror group that started the war in the first place and its sponsor, Iran.

In addition to President Joseph Aoun’s fiery speeches against Hezbollah, activists and media personalities are using their platforms to denounce the terrorist organization.

Lebanese writer and activist Imad Koumayha, whose home was destroyed, barely mentioned Israel in an interview in which he discussed how to assign blame, placing it squarely on Iran.

When the interviewer asked him, “Who uses the Shiites as cannon fodder today?” he answered, “The Iranian regime.”

“We thought there was unity with Iran, but in the blink of an eye, they ditched us and left,” Koumayha continued. “The Iranian regime is seen by the Shiites as disloyal and immoral.”

He also said that the Lebanese had been indoctrinated to believe that Israel wanted to conquer the Litani River for its water. But Israel has become the world’s leader in desalination technology, while Lebanon has turned the Litani into a “cesspool.”

In his most damning statement, he said that people who have lost children are forced to pretend that they sacrificed them willingly.

“They don’t want us to cry with pain in front of the enemy, so we do not appear weak … Even the parents of a martyr, who cannot sleep at night.”

In a similar vein, Lebanese MP Camille Chamoun pushed back against criticism of Israel for killing civilians, defending Israel’s evacuation orders.

“Imagine what would have happened if the Israeli army had not provided warnings to the places it was about to bomb?” he asked in a televised appearance. While conceding that there is nothing humane about war, he claimed that if not for Israel’s evacuation orders, 100,000 people would have been killed instead of 2,000.

“This means Israel is not trying to kill Shiite Lebanese,” he declared.