• Threeme2189@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Are you delusional? The IDF literally sent text messages, made phone calls and even blasted a message on Lebanon radio urging civilians who were near Hezbollah weapons to get the fuck away. Why do that if they want to kill civilians?

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      3 months ago

      Did they notify the people with beepers as well? Oh wait…No they blew them all up causing a lot of potential civilian casualties and created a new entry on the very exhaustive list of war crimes the country commits. Israel has routinely escalated the conflict and left the Lebanese people with no choice but to retaliate. Just because they said “Hey, we’re going to attack indiscriminately against Hezbollah so move away from any Hezbollah locations even if they are top secret and you don’t know they exist.” does not excuse them of the atrocities they commit. You don’t sympathize with a schoolyard bully when one of the other students finally decides to fight back.

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        3 months ago

        Schoolyard bully? Fighting back? Remind me who started firing rockets across the Israel-Lebanon border last October. Because it sure as shit wasn’t the IDF.

        Israel didn’t start the current conflict with Hezbollah and, apart from preemptively destroying their rockets and drones and taking out terrorists along the southern border, didn’t ‘escalate the conflict’. The beeper incedent most likely disabled quite a few of them.

        And another thing, do you really think a family living right under a big ass rocket don’t know it’s there?

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          3 months ago

          Remind me who is slaughtering innocent civilians wholesale and performing ethnic cleansing? And yes, Israel did start the current conflict, and they did escalate it. Hezbollah wouldn’t have been so inclined to intervene if Israel were fighting Hamas only. Genocide and ethnic cleansing of their neighbors is something they don’t seem to abide by, apparently.

          All you’re doing is trying to excuse the disgusting actions of a genocidal state headed by a madman who is so afraid of letting go of power he would rather plunge a whole region into war then let go. It’s pretty sad and pathetic.