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#15325401
So Netanjahus desparation to start a new war in the middle east is obviously getting worse and worse.

At least that seems to be the most likely motive behind this new event.



Pants-of-dog wrote:Centrists often support terrorism if the targets are considered enemies. Lebanese people definitely fit the bill.

I dont know why you call zionists (thats people defending the Israel apartheit) "centrists", but otherwise yes.

There are no real centrists in our currently highly divided world right now.

Here in my country a new centrist party was formed, the BSW (Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht = Sahra Wagenknecht alliance), and many immediately called it "extreme right" based on no argument whatsoever.

Despite the fact this was literally traditional leftists plus industrialists and some personalities who have traditionally not been left or right. Doesnt get more centrist.

The tendency of seeing the world in black and white, in us vs them, is overwhelming.



wat0n wrote:Not sure about what terrorism @Pants-of-dog is talking about. Attacking Hezbollah's military infrastructure is legitimate.

They literally didnt actually target anything.

The hit random civilians, including many children, all over the country.

Given the size of this country and the relatively low population, this was many 9/11 acts of terrorism all over for Lebanon.

This also creates a new form of terrorism that may now find copycats elsewhere, too.

And You try to justify this amazing act of terrorism with the fact that a couple Hezbolla would have been hit, too.

Meanwhile Israel hasnt even declared war on Lebanon or anything, so why are lebanese military a legitimate target anyway ?
#15325402
No @Negotiator, by Hezbollah's own admission most of the dead are part of its military wing and indeed published their photos wearing uniforms are they usually do when their men are killed.

Also, if Hezbollah doesn't want an escalation it can just stop shelling civilian infrastructure in northern Israel.
#15325405
Skynet wrote:Israel used an apocalyptic weappon... the pager bombs were designed to blind the eyes not to kill ...peversion of science and a warcrime

They rang and many state officials use them, and they watched and got blind.


This is perhaps the most targeted attack with the least possible civilians casualties/collateral damage in the history of humanity considering the scale. The targets attacked were all Hamas military or intelligence. Even the network that was used is a military network and not a civilian one.

People saying this is a war crime or a terrorist attack are pissing in everyone's ears. This is perhaps THE best example how to conduct such operations.
#15325431
wat0n wrote:Attacking legitimate military targets is not terrorism.

This was specifically reaffirmed for C3 networks, by the ICTY.


By your logic October 7th was not terrorism then since there were military targets included in the attack.

I assume you'll reject this conclusion of course so you need to reexamine your own support for terrorist attacks.
#15325436
KurtFF8 wrote:By your logic October 7th was not terrorism then since there were military targets included in the attack.

I assume you'll reject this conclusion of course so you need to reexamine your own support for terrorist attacks.


The pagers themselves were legitimate military targets, being part of Hezbollah's C3 network.

But it's interesting to see you using all sorts of stupid arguments to justify October 7th with your fellow rape enjoyer @Pants-of-dog
#15325438
wat0n wrote:The pagers themselves were legitimate military targets, being part of Hezbollah's C3 network.

But it's interesting to see you using all sorts of stupid arguments to justify October 7th with your fellow rape enjoyer @Pants-of-dog


It seems you either didn't understand what I wrote or you're just engaging in a bad faith response.
#15325443
^ interestingly, the Lebanese UN ambassador said UNSC resolution should be finally enforced. This is something Israel could perfectly get on board with, honestly, I wonder what's the Lebanese government thinking here. Hezbollah will never accept disarming after all.

KurtFF8 wrote:It seems you either didn't understand what I wrote or you're just engaging in a bad faith response.


Oh I did. Hence my response.
#15325451
wat0n wrote:^ interestingly, the Lebanese UN ambassador said UNSC resolution should be finally enforced. This is something Israel could perfectly get on board with, honestly, I wonder what's the Lebanese government thinking here. Hezbollah will never accept disarming after all.


Israel does not really care about UN resolutions of course.

Oh I did. Hence my response.


I think it's pretty clear that you didn't understand what I wrote.
#15325453
KurtFF8 wrote:Israel does not really care about UN resolutions of course.


Well, even the UN doesn't care about its resolutions given the lack of enforcement of UNSC resolution 1701. Israel would be okay with it.

KurtFF8 wrote:I think it's pretty clear that you didn't understand what I wrote.


:lol:
#15325457
I just watched Zakaria interview with Hillary Clinton on his Sunday show. He asked her about her views on the current war. She spent the WHOLE 3 minutes (or however long it was) castigating the pro-Hamas student protests and antisemitism she says was funded and partially organized by foreign interests. I have no problem with her mentioning that, but not to the exclusion of everything else happening right now in the war. It was her way of evading the question, because it’s a “no-win” question for any American politician to answer honestly.

His next guest was the UN Secretary-General and they talked about Israel becoming a totally apartheid state, if there is no two-state solution. I’m sure Hillary wouldn’t have touched that topic with the proverbial 10-foot pole.
#15325498
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/21/us-isr ... matic-deal

Israeli officials said their increasing attacks against Hezbollah are not intended to lead to war but are an attempt to reach "de-escalation through escalation."


:knife:

Apparently the firefighters in Israel use gasoline instead of water ?
#15325538
And now here is a prime example of the dark humor of the Zionist Jews , in the aftermath of the attack in Lebanon .

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First came the explosions. Then came the jokes.

Within minutes of news that several members of Hezbollah were killed and hundreds wounded by pagers that had been doctored to explode en masse, allegedly by Israel, Jews on social media shared memes celebrating the operation and mocking its targets. Examples:

A man dressed as an Orthodox Jew sits behind a table reading “Honest Shlomo’s discount pagers.”

A pager’s message reads “72 Virgins,” a reference to the concept that Muslim martyrs will be rewarded with 72 maidens in heaven. Some attributed the message to “Moti Rola,” a spurious Hebrew name riffing on the Motorola brand. Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, takes a call from a follower boasting that he found a good deal on the electronic devices.

And because the pagers were presumably in the pockets of Hezbollah operatives, castration was a popular theme. One cartoon shows a dead Hezbollah man arriving in heaven to greet his virgins, who gasp at his missing genitals.

The jokes continued on Wednesday, with news that walkie-talkies wired to explode had killed at least 25 in Lebanon.

“No more walkie. No more talkie,” wrote David Hazony, director and fellow at the Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities, on X.

The taunting memes and jokes came as a war on another front, in Gaza, grinds on; as negotiations over a ceasefire and efforts to free the Israeli hostages are at a standstill; and as Israel is still reeling from the murder of six hostages earlier last month who were seemingly on the verge of their rescue. For some, the humor is a release valve, celebrating what feels like a rare, clear Israeli “win” in its second-front battle against an enemy that has fired rockets into the country’s evacuated north on a near-daily basis.

For others, however, the mockery crosses a line, and violates a traditional Jewish ethic that discourages undue rejoicing over the deaths of one’s enemy. Laughing also became harder for some as it became clear that while the attacks were a long-planned operation designed to target Hezbollah operatives, others had been harmed, including children who were killed.

Sometimes, both sentiments are being felt simultaneously. For Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky, of Congregation Shaare Tefilla, an Orthodox synagogue in Dallas, the memes were both humorous and troubling.

“Candidly, I thought they were hilarious,” he said in an interview. “From the perspective of Jewish tradition, certainly for Israelis to be engaging in dark humor is absolutely a legitimate way to deal with stress.” He quoted rabbis, including the 19th-century Modern Orthodox pioneer Raphael Samson Hirsch and Daniel Z. Feldman, a leading rabbi at Yeshiva University’s rabbinic seminary, who said humor is an appropriate response to stress.

“But at the same time, after that perhaps initial reaction, I think that is worth being a little more circumspect,” continued Rackovsky, who posted on Facebook about his ambivalence. “After all, our tradition does teach us that we should not celebrate excessively over the downfall of our enemies.”

The emotion he endorsed in his Facebook post was “gratitude” to God for the success of the operation. “We should absolutely be thankful to God, but maybe not hand out candies, and not just because the optics of that are not great,” he said.

Rackovsky may have been referring to another widely shared video, of Israelis handing out candy in Jerusalem following the operation in Lebanon — a gesture often reported in Arab communities after terror attacks in Israel. In response to that video, Ori Riddleman, an X user with 8,500 followers, asked in Hebrew, “When did the phenomenon begin that we began to imitate the behavior of terrorist organizations?”

On this and other issues, Judaism has multiple perspectives, as was pointed out on X by Rabbi Josh Yuter, an Orthodox rabbi based in Israel. He weighed in on the debate over the memes by re-upping a four-year-old Twitter thread referring to a number of contradictory sources, from an admonition in Proverbs (“If your enemy falls, do not exult…”) to a seeming endorsement in Psalms (​​”The righteous man will rejoice when he sees revenge…”).

“I remind everyone that conflicting perspectives regarding rejoicing over the downfall of one’s enemies are attested in rabbinic literature, with some sources being deliberately misinterpreted,” Yuter added on Wednesday.

Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a historian who writes widely about Israel, put the operation and the reactions in the context of pro-Palestinian activists and human rights bodies that justify the attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah on Israeli civilians as “resistance.”

“I don’t take glee in death, but if Western ‘morality’ has now decided that terrorists can kill Jews/Israelis as ‘resistance’ but not BE killed by state actors as internationally recognized terror organizations,” she tweeted, “where are we as both an ethical universe and international system?!” The debate over rejoicing seemed to have cost at least one X user his job. Howard Feldman, who wrote about local politics for News24, a news service in South Africa, posted on the social media site Tuesday calling the attacks “genius” and “very cool” for their precision. He also joked, “From the liver to the knee …” — a reference to the Palestinian nationalist slogan “From the river to the sea.”

A few hours later he posted a letter from News24’s editor in chief terminating his column and explaining, “News 24 can in no way be associated with writers who glorify violence, which you did in my opinion.”

Feldman responded: “And just like that @News24 have shown me who they are…”

Gallows humor is a core aspect of Israeli society and “sick” jokes cropped up on Israeli social media even in the weeks after Oct. 7. On television, YouTube and social media, Israelis shared jokes about their own fears, what they saw as a propaganda war against Israel and Jews and the failures of their own government.

And yet little of this humor was directly about the war in Gaza or the grim conditions on the ground there, noted Benji Lovitt, a Jerusalem-based comedian who has co-written a book about Zionism and Israeli culture.

“I didn’t see much humor about Gaza because it’s war, many people in Gaza have died and many, many are suffering,” he said. “It doesn’t matter who you want to blame, but you don’t want to punch down and make fun of people in Gaza.”

By contrast, he said, Hezbollah has been launching missile strikes on Israel for 11 months, and the electronics attacks are seen as surgically targeting its operatives and rebuking criticism that Israel’s bombing in Gaza has been indiscriminate.

“We are laughing because we believe it’s a clear example of punching up,” said Lovitt. “And it’s an amazing story. I think people are laughing because they’re celebrating Israeli innovation.

“And it’s been a crappy year. People need to laugh.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency
#15325556
Death toll following Israeli strikes on Lebanon rises to 274, health minister says

Israel carried out what it said was a “limited” airstrike in Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, with Israeli media reporting that the target of the strike was Ali Karaki, the number three military commander in Hezbollah.


“limited” airstrike? Is there a language translation error or are they having a laugh?
#15325706
KurtFF8 wrote:Looks like Israel is moving from terrorist attacks to a full scale war.


Hezbolla can stop the attacks and the war immediately by stopping their attacks on Israel.
If Hezbolla continues attacking Israel, they deserve everything that Israel does to them.
Your whining notwithstanding.
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