So he admits it. The plan was always to destroy Gaza, not Hamas, wasn't it? Israel has some of the most advanced weaponry and intelligence out of any government on Earth, and the best they can do is indiscriminately bomb hospitals, refugee camps, residential blocks, and schools just in case Hamas is there, which is considered a warcrime by The Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of the ICC. Rules of engagement state you do not attack civilian infrastructure in order to eliminate hostiles, unless you can demonstrate that the loss of civilian life is negligible compared to the military advantage gained from attacking a civilian building that houses hostiles. I'm sure the IDF really needed that hospital to run tactical ops out of.
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It's the exact same playbook as in Palestine.
No doubt there will soon be Israeli "settlers" in Lebanese territory surrounded by enormous areas stolen from the locals "for security".
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Netanyahu is the closest thing we’ve had to Hitler in quite a while.
Watch out, a French humorist has lost his job for making that comparison
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He is Hitler.
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Terrorism is when ones tries to achieve political objectives by putting pressure on a population through attacks on non-military targets.
What Israel is saying here is like Bin Laden hitting the Twin Towers to "pressure their political opponents".
That's a tad bit difficult since Hezbollah military rivals that of the Lebanese government. This is pretty much an impossible request and him saying that he's going to cause Lebanon "destruction and suffering"
They always claim Hezbollah is terrorist, but surely the IDF have a larger civilian kill count and a larger percentage of civilians killed.
Israel feeling pretty confident there is zero consequences to their actions now.
This is what I don't get... Hezbollah has seats in Lebanon's parliament. How is it any different than Likud? Aside from the whole, "not being actively genocidal" thing. Should we compare civilian casualties between the two groups?
Why are we only cool with democracy (and "spreading" it) when they vote for the people we like?
Edit: well, I stand corrected. Here is an article today showing Hezbollah committing literal war crimes today... Oh no wait. Hold on a second, that was actually the IDF:
So at what point do they become "terrorists"? Or are we just having a pointless semantic argument at this point?
A yes, the classic "start a war with the people we don't like or we will start the war for you". Truly sympathetic shit.
We have first genocide, yes, but what about second genocide?
It's looking like the Oprah meme. "You get a genocide, and you get a genocide, and you get a genocide"
I simply can not comprehend how any politicians defend Israel and don't have their reputation in tatters.
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That's sort of his plan, to raze it to the ground. What Netanyahu doesn't realize is that all the war money he's burning through is also Israel's defense money, and that it will be some of the last it will ever get even if Trump wins. Biden is getting fed up, and Trump isn't a fan of Israel, he's a fan of money and Russia.
Don't listen to this manipulative pro-Trump garbage. Trump loves Israel.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/harris-trump-iran-israel-gaza-positions/
As president, Trump controversially moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and ended decades of U.S. opposition to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. (The Biden administration reversed the settlement decision.)
Pro-Trump? Are you an idiot? Again, Trump loves money, not Netanyahu. Netanyahu is a free loopback for public to private money interests for a lot of politicians, but when you increasingly control that money at its source, it becomes less significant. Trump is going for a dictatorship in the US this time around, so Trump needs Putin, an Iran ally and leader at this sort of subterfuge, more than he needs Netanyahu.
With morons all around, from his supporters to the sort that calls observations like that "Pro-Trump", he's closer than ever to his goal. If you insist enough on it, I'm sure you will get a lot of pro-Netanyahu people, the sort already pushing troll factories onto social networks, to vote and promote Trump since they care more about Israel than the US. I'm just reminding them they are going to get screwed either way, if anything more so with Trump.
"Trump will end support for Israel's genocidal violence against Palestine" is essentially what you were saying.
If it were true, I'd grit my teeth and let this praise of Trump slide. But it is a lie in service to a fascist, relating to an issue that can swing votes.
... this praise of Trump ... But it is a lie in service to a fascist
Not sure how utterly brain damaged you have to be to extrapolate that from my statement, but here we are. Dictators are not the best of bedfellows, history has proven that time and time again.
Congratulations for standing up for the supposed people in swing states who would vote a fascist dictator because they might drop support for Israel in the future because he's a fan of money, not Israel ... but somehow ignore the part where I'm also stating that Biden is getting fed up as well, I guess? Sorry, I don't know how the crazed zealot mindset works, it certainly isn't on logic, which is what I oppose Trump on.