Where have we heard this talking point before? Oh right, every single time israel mass murders civilians, they claim it was a military target and that the military target is terrorists. Before it was Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, now it's Hezbollah, Hezbollah, Hezbollah.
Meanwhile how israel actually feels about Lebanon: https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/1839771677519163565 (tweets by BreakThrough News, using quotes from top israel figures)
Israeli officials have repeatedly threatened to destroy all of Lebanon since October.
Here are just a few examples:
"There is no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon. Lebanon will be annihilated. It will cease to exist."
— Yoav Kisch, Israel's Minister of Education
"Beirut must burn. I'm not saying this because I am a war monger"
— Yoaz Hendel, Former minister, media person, Lt. Col. (Res.)
“For the deaths of little children, [Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah should pay with his head,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich tweeted,” asserting that it was “time for action” and that “Lebanon as a whole has to pay the price.”
"Every person in Lebanon can take the map, the aerial photograph of Gaza, place it on an aerial photograph of Beirut, and ask themselves if this is what they want to happen there.”
— Yoav Gallant, Israeli Defense Minister
"The time has come for the price to be paid in military targets and Lebanese infrastructure, of which Hezbollah is a part."
— Benny Gantz, Retired MK Lt. General & Minister without portfolio
“Lebanon is a dysfunctional state incapable of enforcing UN resolution 1701 which forbids presence of Hezbollah in South Lebanon… So Israel has no option but to evacuate villages in South Lebanon and establish a buffer zone there.”
—Amichai Chikli, Israel Minister of Diaspora
I don't know Nasrallah personally but I'm willing to bet money he isn't just chilling within firing range after days of attacks
That's just an excuse for western audiences.
A thought I have had lately is: I don't think anyone believes in human shields and that Lebanese people have missiles in their Apts. They just need plausible deniability for their racism when they take joy in brown people being killed by the thousands. The contemporary racist is a coward that hides his true desires.
They just need plausible deniability for their racism when they take joy in brown people being killed by the thousands. The contemporary racist is a coward that hides his true desires.
Well said, it's like that one quote
the process of Western propaganda is better understood in terms of “licensing”: the issuing of moral license for the bourgeois {Global North's labor aristocrat} proletariat to profitably go along with bourgeois designs without the feeling of shame overwhelming
Oh is this from Roderic Day's essay? I love that essay because it explains a lot of loose ends.
Unfortunately, it is likely they got him. Israel seems to have compromised hezbollah's communication channel, already managed to assassinate much of the 1st and 2nd command. They are infiltrated.
Hezbollah isn't even firing back anymore. This is like the 6 day war all over again. Israel has gone completely rogue
bullshit. they are trying to kill random Lebanese, this is the Dahiye doctrine
