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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20524151

Naji Bakhti
Fri 20 Sep 2024 06.57 EDT

[Israel's "sophisticated" savagery -PL]

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[–] AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 50 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Call me pisher but I'm not sure I'm on board with fighting terrorism with more terrorism.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same. If Israel had used a different, less indiscriminate method or had at least done it at a time that people weren't going to be in public, then I would have been a bit more supportive.

I think I understand what Israel was going for - I think they were mainly trying to scare the shit out of Hezbollah and cause chaos by making their main routes of communication compromised; and you know what, I think that's reasonable. However, like usual, they apparently decided that civilian casualties don't matter; which is where I draw the line.


"Should we be making sure we aren't gonna kill civilians?"

"Lmao, nah, just rig anything electronic that has any remote connection to Hezbollah with explosives. Everyone knows that everyone in Lebanon is """Hezbollah"""." - Israel, probably.

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

i feel like if they manufactured the devices they could've made them traceable and killed specific targets

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Don’t let America hear that. They’ll call you a terrorist and tankie for having the gall of skepticism.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The best part is that terrorism is only terrorism when its done by people you don't like to people you do like. Very simply definition.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And you can usually tell at a glance based on the color of the parties' skin.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago
[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

When has Hezbollah even done terrorism? Aren't they more of a typical (para) military organization?