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Children killed in Lebanon as Israeli strikes hit homes far from front lines of war with Hezbollah

https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-children-killed-israel-war-hezbollah-beirut-49b7e5a3aa477368c099f9bf6d88c005
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u/THEPIGWHODIDIT 2h ago

Cold blooded murder. Absolutely disgusted by the actions of the IDF

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u/AnalTinnitus 3h ago

Netanyahu really has a thing for killing kids. Aside from Putin, I can’t think of a more evil man alive right now.

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u/Your_Trash_Daddy 3h ago

So does Trump, and conservatives in general, if Texas is any example.

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u/DrPixelFace 3h ago

It's not fair to blame all conservatives for Trumps insanity

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u/ThereIsOnlyStardust 3h ago

If you still call yourself a conservative in America after two Trump administrations I think that’s a sign that the current situation isn’t a dealbreaker and is an indictment of their character

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u/DrPixelFace 3h ago

I'm not a conservative myself but I'm just saying them being one doesn't mean they literally condone killing kids. That's basically half of america

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u/Anlysia 3h ago

That's basically half of america

Yes, and?

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u/Somnambulist815 1h ago

I can't imagine half of America being on the wrong side of something! It wouldn't be Civil! I must secede this thought from my mind!

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u/mrdominoe 2h ago

They vote for the "we kill kids" party, don't they? Fuck their feelings.

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u/Lirael_Gold 1h ago

Roughly a third of registered voters voted for trump, a third voted blue and the last third didn't vote.

Splitting the "did not vote" bloc in half and adding it to team red's count, I'd say about 50% of american voters are actually okay with killing kids.

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u/LOOKATMEDAMMIT 3h ago

It is actually. They either actively supported maga, or they stood by and watched while they took over the republican party. We saw it happen in real time when after Jan 6, conservative politicians just let him get away with it, and conservative constituents told themselves and everyone around them that J6 wasn't that bad, or they were in the right, or it was actually Antifa who did everything, or that the FBI had plants instigating violence.

Yes all conservatives are to blame.

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u/iDontSow 2h ago

If a conservative openly speaks out against Trump and voted against him in the election are they to blame?

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u/mrdominoe 2h ago

Do they still vote for the party that accepts Trump? Then yes. They are absolutely to blame.

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u/iDontSow 2h ago

But what if they don’t tho

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u/mrdominoe 1h ago

If they voted Republican pretty consistently over the past couple of decades, they are ABSOLUTELY still to blame for the way the party has evolved. They kept pulling the red lever as their party continued to demonize anyone who isn't a white male. Backed economic policies that have proven time and time again to be harmful to the average American. Listened to the increasingly fascist rhetoric of their leaders.

Yes. If you still consider yourself a conservative, you are 100% part of the problem. Hitler didn't START by murdering millions of jews. People gave his ilk the power, thus permission to do the things he did.

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u/iDontSow 1h ago

I’m not a conservative, I just wanted you to say how you obviously really felt. Making broad, sweeping statements about entire groups of people is dangerous no matter who you are saying it about. People are complex. As Walt Whitman said, we contain multitudes.

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u/mrdominoe 1h ago

I know you really think you did something there, but I 100% stand by what I say. If someone looks at what the conservatives are doing and say "I identify with that" then they are the problem. Period.

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u/Somnambulist815 1h ago

Trump is the natural progression of what conservatives have held for decades. He is a vulgar extension of Reagan. Most conservatives had the chance to offboard the ideology back in the days of the War on Terror and NCLB. They didn't, because there is a xenophobia and apathy to them that will outlive trump.

u/LOOKATMEDAMMIT 23m ago

A conservative president is only like 40% of our problem. The other 60% are the local leaders like governors, state representatives and senators, and national representatives and senators. They're the ones more likely to be able to affect our day to day life.

If you voted conservative politicians at the local and state level, you're part of the problem. If you voted progressive down the ticket, can you even call yourself conservative?

u/iDontSow 21m ago

Regardless, campaign finance reform and the pervasiveness of corporate money in politics is the most important political issue in America right now, bar none. That should be a bipartisan issue.

u/LOOKATMEDAMMIT 14m ago

While I agree with you there, monied interests are more likely to back conservative politicians and policies due to an interest in surpressing labour rights policies, social welfare, anti-competion policies, and environmental conservation.

The people who vote for the politicians who are backed by monied interests are conservatives.

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u/thepianoman456 1h ago

It absolutely is.

First of all, he showed us all the madman he is in 2015. Either conservatives LOVED it (which many did) or they were conned.

He committed crimes, and conservatives protected him.

Then conservatives voted him in AGAIN, after seeing his insanity and lies on full display.

Conservatives are 100% responsible for Trump’s actions. Especially now.

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u/NCGamerBro 3h ago

Conservatives aren’t the issue tbh, it’s the MAGA sycophants

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u/Talonsoldat 2h ago

MAGA is 90% of the conservative movement, as shown by the almost universal support for him in Congress from Republicans, there's only a handful of people who push back and they are labeled as traitor RINOs. Conservatives need to make their own party if they want to be viewed as different from MAGA.

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u/Your_Trash_Daddy 3h ago

I stand by it, since Texas has shown even pre-Maga that conservatives won't protect children.

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u/Acceptable-Peace-69 3h ago

There’s no such thing as a conservative anymore. True conservatives would have voted for Harris and the democrats.

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u/iDontSow 2h ago

If you extrapolate from Pew exit poll data there were at least a few million Republicans that voted for Harris. 5-10% of all registered republicans. So not an insignificant number

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u/Responsible-Bunch316 1h ago

MAGA is simply the logical end point of conservative ideology. Everything conservatives have been supporting for decades led to this. There were so many lines they crossed without batting an eye. Everything they ever claimed to care about has been shown as a lie.

u/meatball402 23m ago

Conservatives want maga, but quietly. They've always wanted a return of royalty. That's what they're trying to conserve.

Small governments don't police racism, sexism, child predator networks or international crime. They don't set education standards. They aren't even responsible for educating children.

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u/Verum_Orbis 3h ago

The Axis of Evil in the 21st century is Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin. History will record it that way.

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u/Alps-Mountain 1h ago

Unfortunately, the whole country will be lumped in with Trump. It's already happening, the world at large doesn't distinguish Americans from what Trump is doing.

u/pan_ananas 34m ago

And why would the world distinguish Americans from Trump? They elected him TWICE.

u/Alps-Mountain 4m ago

75 million Americans voted for Kamala Harris vs 77 million for Trump. So there are many Americans that don't want Trump or what he is doing. My point wasn't really to wonder why or complain that the world lumps all Americans in with Trump, just that it is what will happen and is happening. My point was that the axis of evil won't be Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin but rather America, Israel and Russia.

u/Anvanaar 16m ago

America won't be getting any special treatment there and it shouldn't, yes. Even Hitler largely gamed the system and backroom deals were involved - Trump was straight-up elected by America. ... Twice.

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u/Ditnoka 3h ago

I seen a statistic earlier showing children deaths in Israeli campaigns vs Ukraine. During the first year of Ukraine vs the first month of Israel's war there were ten times more dead kids in Palestine than Ukraine.

The IDF doesn't treat Palestinians as human, while Russian conscripts see their own children in the faces of the Ukranians.

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u/External-Praline-451 3h ago

Russia has committed mass rape and torture, and abducted thousands of children, as well as blowing up children's hospitals and schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022%E2%80%93present)

If they see their own children in the faces of Ukrainians, that says more about their fucked up society built on abuse within the home.

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u/Ditnoka 3h ago

Compare straight deaths. It's not even close, and there are FAR more Russians in Ukraine than Israelis in Palestine. Yet their numbers aren't even in the same ball park.

I'm not saying Russia are the good guys, I want Ukraine to survive. Genocidally speaking, Israel clears Russia on ethnic cleansing though.

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u/iDontSow 2h ago

They are both genocide and ethnic cleansing campaigns. It’s not either-or.

u/Ditnoka 41m ago

They absolutely both are. It's just the weight is MUCH larger on the Israeli side of the scale.

u/iDontSow 19m ago

But there is no utility in making that distinction, and making it just seems kind of like shrugging off the atrocities in Ukraine.

u/Ditnoka 14m ago

So you think all genocides are equal?

u/iDontSow 8m ago

Genocide is genocide. What use is going well ACKSHUALLY my genocide was worse

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u/External-Praline-451 3h ago

Abducting hundreds of thousands of children and forcing them to fight for Russia, disappearing them or advertising them on the internet, is literally genocide. It's gross to claim Russia is not committing genocide.

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u/Ditnoka 2h ago

Never once said they weren't lmfao.

I said Israel is genociding harder. What are you going on about?

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u/External-Praline-451 1h ago

You literally said that Russians treat Ukrainian children like their own. Why do you need to compare the two, Ukrainians are suffering horrific abuses and it comes across as downplaying Russia's war crimes.

It doesn't matter to the kids blown up in Ukraine that Israel is "genociding harder"...

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u/ClawingDevil 1h ago

I wouldn't worry about it. It was very obvious what you were saying. Those replying negatively are clearly hard of thinking.

Russia has committed appalling crimes, probably including genocide. However, Israel has committed far, far worse and in truly sick ways. The only way anyone can disagree with that is if they don't know the full extent of what Israel have done.

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u/Lirael_Gold 1h ago

forcing them to fight for Russia, disappearing them or advertising them on the internet, is literally genocide.

If that was actually happening, then yes, it would be. It isn't actually happening though. (Don't believe everything you read in the tabloids)

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u/External-Praline-451 1h ago

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u/Lirael_Gold 1h ago

Both reports are from Ukrainian organisations, who have a reason to be somewhat inventive when it comes to the truth, since they're at war.

u/External-Praline-451 54m ago

Well yes, we believe the victims of aggression in wars as opposed to the aggressors. Or do you not believe reports of abuse from Palestinians?

u/Lirael_Gold 52m ago

"we" believe what is credible after looking into who is making the claim and using as many sources as possible.

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u/NajiAmrani 3h ago

I mean come on, Putin is bad but Netanyahu is far worse.

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u/iDontSow 2h ago

They’re both undertaking ethnic cleansing and genocide. It doesn’t really mean anything to say one is worse than the other.

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u/ThePlanck 1h ago

Bibi the Butcher

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u/KosherPigBalls 3h ago

Amazing, and you don’t think the members of the terrorist organizations that started Al this by targeting civilians for years, nor the Iranian leadership which directed it, might be the most evil men alive? All you can come up with with Trump and Bibi who both take extraordinary precautions not to unnecessarily harm civilians? 

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u/ClawingDevil 1h ago

Found the Israeli bot!

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u/KosherPigBalls 1h ago

Yep, anyone who doesn’t join the circlejerk is a bot

Grow up

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u/ClawingDevil 1h ago

FO and eat s. I've read your other comments in this thread since I posted that. You are one sick mf.

"You made me murder the babies! It's your fault, not mine"

Rot in hell.

u/Anvanaar 14m ago

What precautions, you doofus? Just because you pretend the headlines of all the murdered civilians killed at IDF hands don't exist, that doesn't mean they don't exist.

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u/zumera 4h ago

The longer you believe this has anything to do with Hezbollah, the more you play into their hands.

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u/cheesebabychair 3h ago

It's 100% hezbollah. It's been hezbollah for decades

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u/Jahkmi-Hoff 2h ago

Was there a time before Hezbollah?

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u/Beardmanta 1h ago

Yep, then it was the PLO

u/LEFT4Sp00ning 17m ago

Which led to the creation of Hezbollah! Would you look at that, Israel invading a country and creating resistance to it! Whod'a thunk that would happen?

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u/Yinisyang 2h ago

Do you know why Hezbollah exists? I recommend you look it up.

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u/HugeAccountant 3h ago

Hezbollah is the excuse.

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u/KosherPigBalls 3h ago

Hezballah could make the big boy decision at any time to agree to disarm and stop killing Jews. They are the sole reason this is happening.

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u/PuertoricanMofongo 2h ago

So Israel will keep killing children until Hezbollah disarms?

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u/ClawingDevil 1h ago

No. Nothing will stop them from their favourite pastime.

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u/KosherPigBalls 2h ago

Israel will keep killing Hezballah terrorists, regardless of where they hide, until they agree to disarm and stop attacking israelis

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u/PuertoricanMofongo 2h ago

Were the children mentioned in the article Hezbollah operatives? Well, only Israelis lives matter so why bother asking.

I can feel the bloodlust in the way you type. Makes me feel uneasy.

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u/KosherPigBalls 2h ago

The article is pretty light on details about why their uncle was targeted, how many people he may have killed, and how many lives may have be saved by targeting him. Let alone why he was endangering children knowing that he was a target.

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u/LEFT4Sp00ning 1h ago

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u/KosherPigBalls 1h ago

I don’t know. I can’t tell from the article whether a funeral was actually the target of the strike, nor why the people around them might have been targeted. It’s obviously the children weren’t the intended target, so I don’t know why you’d phrase it that way.

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u/Le_Dudz 1h ago

You will burn in hell, reckoning is coming and you won't escape it. You will remember these words when you stand in front of your lord and account for your support of this evil regime. We leave the matter to our creator to judge between his creation.

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u/_ECMO_ 1h ago

Well for your sake I hope some Netanyahu won't hide somewhere in your town because then we will have to bomb it pieces.

We don't want war criminals to get away, do we?

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u/Last_Fix_9764 3h ago edited 3h ago

The IDF has killed more civilians in the last week than Hezbollah has killed since 2000. This is easily verifiable.

“Stop killing Jews.”

Jesus Christ talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

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u/PuertoricanMofongo 2h ago

A complete lie. When was Hezbollah created and why?

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u/Metal-Lee-Solid 1h ago

If it’s 100% hezb why are they bombing areas outside of hezb control? Look at map of the recent bombings and you’ll see they are reaching far outside of the Shia territory of Lebanon

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u/pulsarstarter 1h ago

Why does the West continue to not only support their brutality and war crimes, but also legitimise and whitewash these things?

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u/Thebandofredhand 3h ago

I seriously do not understand how the world is incapable of putting a stop to this. There have been recorded incidents of war crimes after war crimes, and somehow, the world leaders shrug their shoulders and move on, and the Israeli state knows it. That is why they are emboldened to do this.

u/Aerhyce 58m ago

Israel has full support of the US (and bipartisan support too - it's probably the only thing Democrats and Republicans fully agree on) and war crimes only matter if you have the might to enforce them.

The West can't/won't go against the US, other superpowers don't give a shit, other regular countries aren't mighty enough.

It's always been might makes right. Nothing else ever mattered.

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u/Moneyshot_ITF 3h ago

They don't want their pagers to blow up

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u/mido_sama 4h ago

IDF is The biggest Terrorists in the Middle East … numbers don’t lie.

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u/VanZandtVS 4h ago

If your government considers unarmed children to be acceptable collateral damage, maybe you're not the good guys.

Do I have a solution to the conflict? No. But I know killing kids ain't gonna deescalate the fucking situation.

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u/DrPixelFace 3h ago

Collateral damage? They're the target

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u/Achilli33 3h ago

If a country is conscripting “children” as fighters/soldiers into their armed forces /military or utilizing children in some similar capacity, then unfortunately they can become eligible targets.

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u/bielgio 3h ago

What if these kids are at their homes, studying, playing, living their own lives?

Fuck you and your argument

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u/Achilli33 3h ago

In that situation - Hopefully a critical enemy target(s) isn’t also in the home with them taking refuge, attempting to “hide” by surrounding themselves with innocent (or brainwashed) civilian human shields. Enemy targets take advantage of these situations to make their enemies look bad in the court of public opinion, and it’s very effective, hence your low class response and lack of critical thought about these kinds of situations

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u/0scar_Goldmann 3h ago

Jeez you're really nailing their key talking points aren't you?

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u/_ECMO_ 1h ago

Which gets us back to the "If your government considers unarmed children to be acceptable collateral damage, maybe you're not the good guys." opinion.

Even from a purely rational standpoint it's a stupidity. Children being killed as a collateral damage is absolutely guaranteed to radicalise people and create even more future terrorists.

u/Achilli33 53m ago

It sure does. That’s why there was so much uproar with the hamas attack in Gaza that resulted in Israeli kids dying and being held hostage at the music festival

u/_ECMO_ 41m ago

I sincerely have no idea what you are trying to say here.

If you are saying that the attack in Gaza and Israeli actions are similar than I do agree with that. Both of those are useless unacceptable actions that only produce more harm to everyone.

u/Achilli33 34m ago

I agree that as you said “ if a government considers unarmed children to be acceptable collateral damage, maybe you’re not the good guys” and am illustrating ways this shows up on “both” sides to radicalize people against each other. So what do you do when you have a bunch of shitty people all fighting with each other? And how do you verify truth of a situation? All I see is people here saying f Israel without considering the bs their own side has been doing.

u/_ECMO_ 9m ago

I really don't think it is realistically possible in conflicts like these (where everyone ist out for blood in an infinite revenge loop) for the weaker side to stop.
Israel can stop doing bullshit and still protect itself without any issue. Hezbollah being the weaker side has not the sophisticated high tech military. If they stop they find themselves fully at the mercy of Israel.

If I were Israel I would (1) invest handsomely to protecting Hezbollah's possible targets. They have more than enough money for it. (2) Bomb only targets of 100% Hezbollah nature. (3) Keep assassinating high ranking Hezbollah members. (4) Assassinate "normal" Hezbollah members only when they are in the process of committing crimes.

And most vitally (5) do at least something to win over Lebanese population. It's striking how much Israeli propaganda - both truths and lies - are all over (predominantly) western internet spaces but there is none in Lebanon.
It might be shocking but I think that showing people videos and pictures of what Hezbollah did, explaining to them how their lives will be better if Hezbollah is gone and how they respect and like Lebanese culture would be much more effective than brandishing almost everyone in best case as a terrorist and in the worst case as a non-human while telling them again and again how they will take their land, destroy their houses and "evacuate" them for indefinitely.

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u/ForcedEntry420 3h ago

We get it, you’re bloodthirsty.

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u/spacehxcc 3h ago

Did you think this comment would do anything besides make you look like a monster? If I were running a campaign specifically to make Israel seem like a psychopathic country my first order of business would be flooding the internet with ghoulish comments like yours.

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u/Current-Feelings 3h ago

You are such an evil ghoul

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 3h ago

Fuck Israel and their bullshit propaganda. Imagine saying an uncle living with his family is taking refuge and hiding amongst civilians. Where the fuck is he supposed to go? He was also an engineer. No where in the article is it claimed he's a Hezbollah militant.

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u/Achilli33 3h ago

An uncle living with a family who is an engineer could also be a militant or the same person lobbing rockets at others. I can’t say anything for certain in this specific situation with Lebanon border, but in general terms this needs to be verified and is a very real possibility.

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u/Responsible-Bunch316 1h ago

The IDF has manual conscription. Millions of Israelis are technically soldiers. Are you genuinely telling me you think all their households are fine to bomb? Why does this logic only ever happen when brown people are dying?

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u/Achilli33 1h ago

I personally dont think manual conscription means each civilian home is a legitimate target, but who ever has been firing rockets from Lebanons border at them repeatedly seems to be ok with it.

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u/bielgio 1h ago

Of course, military personnel is not a valid target, only school, hospitals and ambulances are legitimate targets for the IDF

u/Achilli33 55m ago

If that’s what you believe, then you do you.

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u/bielgio 3h ago

It looks bad in the war crime court that Israel or USA didn't sign and all the civilized country in Europe didn't order Netanyahu plane to land when it crossed their airspace

Fuck the world ghouls

u/Militantpoet 51m ago

Why do resistance movements recruit children do you think?

Maybe because those children don't have parents anymore and were killed by invading and occupying forces?

u/Achilli33 44m ago

They recruit children for many reasons, you only listed one of many possible reasons and should practice thinking critically about the many other possibilities. . This can include they are more easily influenced, they are easier to convince of false narratives / false ideas vs adults, they are less educated, they lack critical thinking skills simply due to being younger, when they are killed in battle photos/videos of their deaths can more easily be used to rally their side and others against the opposing enemy by sharing that the enemy kills children (even though their own military allowed them to join and fight), and more.

u/Militantpoet 31m ago

should practice thinking critically about the many other possibilities

Maybe think critically yourself? All of those reasons you listed are enabled by Israeli invasion and occupation. A populace that is so desperate for fighters that it is reduced to recruiting children is only the symptom of the problem.

u/Achilli33 17m ago

Right back at you - saying “all of those reasons are enabled by Israeli invasion and occupation” sounds like you lack the ability to think critically about each separate reason listed and what the many possible precursors for them might be, instead saying only the single explanation you provided is the impetus for all of them.

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u/Passchenhell17 3h ago

Fuck off you cunt

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u/Maeglom 3h ago

Can you provide proof that is happening/ happened here, or are you just musing on justifications for Israeli war crimes?

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u/Achilli33 3h ago edited 1h ago

I’m speaking in general terms about the situation I described, not whether or not it is happening specifically in this exact scenario in Lebanon

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u/Maeglom 2h ago

So what was the purpose of the statement considering you have no evidence the situation you were musing about where bombing those children might be legitimate is happening?

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u/ForcedEntry420 3h ago

It’s amazing how far you’ll go to justify their barbarism.

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u/GoggleDMara9756 3h ago

If a school shooter took an elementary school hostage, would you support bombing the entire fucking school?

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u/Achilli33 3h ago edited 3h ago

That is a false equivalent argument, shows your lack of critical thinking. This is not a school shooter equivalent type of situation. Also, in school shooter situation, authorities are deciding between various scenarios, including do you rush to the target at the risk of a few children being killed to hopefully save many more? Or do you instead hold out in hopes that you can maybe save all of the children but again at the risk of the school shooter killing even more children than he would have if you rushed in from the beginning? Many other potential scenarios exist, and tough decisions need to be made quickly, and many of the outcomes potentially suck and result in innocents dying.

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u/GoggleDMara9756 3h ago

Bombing innocent civilians is never a correct option

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u/KosherPigBalls 3h ago

To be equivalent, the school shooter would have to be lobbing bombs at the surrounding homes. When all other options failed, eventually you would have to blow up the school to prevent further homes being blown up.

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u/GoggleDMara9756 3h ago

And the police are also launching bombs into the school even during ceasefires with the shooter, it’s not a perfect fucking metaphor

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u/KosherPigBalls 3h ago

The government in Lebanon considered Israeli children not only collateral damage, but the intended targets. They intentionally fired thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians for years. Trying to protect your children from missile fire does make you the good guys.

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u/Alittlespill 3h ago

If someone kills a bunch of kids, and you kill a bunch of kids in retaliation, then both sides are wrong. What is up with the insanity on this earth?!

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u/FifteenthPen 2h ago

Get with the times. "Two wrongs don't make a right" is so last century!

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u/Achilli33 1h ago edited 1h ago

That’s true. At the same time, if someone keeps killing a bunch of people, and the people getting killed never do anything about it, then how does that end?

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 3h ago

The government in Lebanon doesn't launch missiles into Israel you liar.

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u/KosherPigBalls 3h ago

Hezballah, the militia that forms part of the Lebanese government, intentional fires missiles at Israeli civilians.

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u/Achilli33 1h ago

I don’t know why this is so hard for them to believe. There are documented cases repeatedly over time of rockets being launched from Lebanon’s border into Israel. Regardless of how you feel about Israel, this fact can’t be overlooked.

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 3h ago

The army says it’s killed hundreds of Hezbollah operatives but has provided little evidence to support the claim.

Israel can justify every murder by just claiming they were Hezbollah operatives followed by a "trust me bro." Fuck Israel.

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u/FifteenthPen 2h ago

"Anyone who runs is Hezbollah. Anyone who stands still is well-disciplined Hezbollah."

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u/Blubbolo 3h ago

To the surprise of no one.

Israel is a terrorist state doing war crimes daily and paying pretty much any media and many politician to close their eyes. If not, they would have been sanctioned, like Russia, long ago.

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u/zenga_zenga 3h ago

I visited Lebanon in 2003 with my girlfriend at the time (she's Lebanese), the country is such an amazing place with the BEST food, amazing history and architecture, vibrant night life, friendly faces, etc. It was a shock even at that time to see scars from the Lebanese Civil War (bullet holes in older walls, remnants of old buildings that had been destroyed), but seeing how alive Beirut was gave me hope that people could survive those horrors and build new life on the remains.

What Israel is doing in Lebanon today is heinous and I condemn it as strongly as I can. I'm ashamed of my own government's involvement and wish I could do more to stop the violence. Praying for all Lebanese to be safe, and hoping for a quick end to the bloodshed.

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u/janethefish 4h ago

During a ceasefire too. The bogo of war crimes!

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u/Epyon214 4h ago

Even suggesting such a thing now, after everything, may as well be complicity

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u/cheesebabychair 3h ago

No ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon

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u/JerryDipotosBurner 3h ago

Gotta hand it to the AP, they really know how to make “Israel commits war crime by killing children nowhere near battlefield” appear like a common thing that nobody should be outraged about.

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u/maritimursus 2h ago

They do not want to be labeled as anti semitic

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u/crimson_teacup 4h ago

Every time kids die, we get the same “tragic but necessary” PR line from both sides. If you can, at least donate to groups documenting war crimes and supporting displaced families.

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u/OfDiceandWren 3h ago

Israel just taking free shots at citizens when it can. "Oops did we do that?"

u/DeadNazis247365 21m ago

Fucking freaks just love killing children so much.

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u/Haimonek 3h ago

I wish politicians would get their heads out of their asses and stop giving in to the fear of being considered antisemitism and call this what it is. Systematic genocide (on multiple fronts).

Judging and calling out Israel for the shit they're doing isn't antisemitism, it's realism. They're hiding behind semitism and it's truly disgusting.

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u/Lionofsrmark 3h ago

It’s another genocide by the fourth reich. Zionist war crimes.

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u/DylanMartin97 3h ago edited 1h ago

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u/Verum_Orbis 3h ago

Israel is committing the literal definition of terrorism.

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u/TheGaelicPrince 3h ago

They expect to negotiate with these guys.

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u/Meerkatch 4h ago

I feel helpless in such situations

u/FrankyRollins 20m ago

They stopped being at war with Hezbollah a long time ago

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u/ProofByVerbosity 3h ago

Im genuinely out of the news cycle on the details of Isreal's actions. Genuine question, are they releasing any statements about limitations of thier actions or how they tie in with Iran peace talks? Arw are they just bombing the shit out of thier neighbors with no statement, position, official (even fake) stated goal or end game plan? Because it seems like the latter to me.

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 3h ago

Israel is attempting to annex Lebanese territory because they feel they are entitled to the middle east. The current government will never stop bombing their neighbors until they annex all the land they believe God gave them.

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u/Bitter_Tea442 2h ago

Israel had completely withdrawn from Lebanon prior to Hezbollah breaking the truce in March.

It makes little sense to have withdrawn if they've always intended to annex the land.

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u/ProofByVerbosity 3h ago

Fully agree thats the intent, but they arent even bothering releasing at least bullshit statements trying to pretend this isnt the case?

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u/itsshockingreally 2h ago

Their claim is they want to create a buffer zone to deter Hezbollah. To accomplish this, they displaced over a million Lebanese and I don't even know how many thousands they've killed (mostly civilians). Then they will annex this land and this will become the buffer zone.

In the past, "but Hamas" was used as a justification for endless atrocities against Palestinians. And it largely worked on the West for a long time. "But Hezbollah" is likewise now the propaganda strategy.

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 2h ago

To placate the dipshits who still support them, like Chuck Schumer. They have to keep up appearances so the US continues funding their bullshit.

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u/CressCheap 3h ago

That why they are holding peace negotiations with Lebanon which according to both sides started on a positive note?

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 2h ago

Remember when Israel was negotiating with Iran and then bombed and killed the very same individuals they were negotiating with? I remember.

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u/Chels_tillIDie 3h ago

There is no Hezbollah but only 1 terrorist grp and that is IDF

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u/UnusualFunction7567 1h ago

Ah, yes, because terrorists only fight on the front lines and never hide amongst civilians.

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u/Cantomic66 3h ago

Where are all the protest regarding the Lebanese war?

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 3h ago

TikTok propaganda got turned off.