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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Dear friend we warn you to stop your horrible massacre...

No

Okay we gonna send you more weapons...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And 58 standing ovations in Congress.

A dazzled Congress gave Netanyahu fifty-eight standing ovations, lasting about half of the speech’s duration and marking a record in US history, or perhaps any country’s history, at more than 400 percent the number Kim Jong Un receives in North Korea, thus breaking Netanyahu’s own record from 2015, when his forty-three-minute speech received forty-three standing ovations and rounds of applause from nearly every single US lawmaker. After a long, torturous hour of cheering and clapping, lawmakers scrambled on the House floor to shake Netanyahu’s hand.

https://jacobin.com/2024/07/benjamin-netanyahu-address-us-congress

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

U.S. ~~warned Israel against targeting Hezbollah in Beirut after deadly strike~~ wags finger sternly at israel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I heard that Biden wagged his finger in private in a back room conversation when someone mentioned Zionist genocide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Well, anyway...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It's darkly funny that Hezbollah won't take responsibility. It must have been some other Iran-backed Lebanese militia... Is it because this time the victims are Arab children?

I suppose Israel could fight in Lebanon and Gaza simultaneously because Gaza involves primarily its infantry and so its aircraft, artillery, and air-defense systems could focus on its north, but I really hope that there's a more clever plan than that in place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

In 2006 their missiles felt on an arab town and didn't deny it

[–] Sami 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fighting Hezballah in an attempt to destroy them or deal significant damage is practically mutually assurred destruction. There's no real way they could wage the same type of warfare in Lebanon without incurring crippling damage to their infrastructure and a very high civilian death toll on both sides due to Hezb's vast missile stockpiles and resources.

That attack is not justification for reckless escalation against the world's most powerful non-state militia. There's not much the Lebanese government can do to influence what would unfold and Hezb's overall message since the start has been that hostilities in north are tied to hostilities in Gaza and will end once those end.

To me it does not seem like Hezb's MO unless it was accidental and even then they've claimed responsibility for accidents in the past and there are miscellaneous militant groups that have launched missiles at Israel from Lebanon. Regardless of what you think of them, they generally act rationally from a military perspective. Either way, it's rich for Israel to act appaled by this regardless of its perpetrators given that they struck a school killing a few dozen people in Gaza that same day.