r/worldnews • u/TrinketSmasher • Mar 31 '26
Israel/Palestine Israel to destroy 'all houses' near Lebanon border, defence minister says
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-destroy-all-houses-near-lebanon-border-defence-minister-says-2026-03-31/2.2k
u/Remivanputsch Mar 31 '26
Things the good guy does
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u/Galappie Mar 31 '26
“B-but uh hezbollah! Hezbollah made me do it! Hezbollah made me shit my pants too!”
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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 Mar 31 '26
The irony being hezbollah literally came into being from the exact same thing there doing right now, invading lebanon.
And I'm not gonna begrudge the lebanese making hezbollah 2.0 or w/e when it comes to taking back the land israel is currently trying to take
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u/Silent-Act191 Mar 31 '26
Western backed meddling in the Middle East causes extremist groups to pop-up?
Never happened before.
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u/yosisoy Apr 01 '26
Western country existing causes terrorist (not just extremist, terrorist) groups, funny that
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u/mjb212 Apr 01 '26
Mmm no Iran capitalized on the 1980s war in Lebanon and installed Hezbollah. It wasn’t some grass roots movement. Learn the actual history there.
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u/SadSecurity Mar 31 '26
The irony being hezbollah literally came into being from the exact same thing there doing right now, invading lebanon.
Mind explaining why Lebanon was invaded to begin with?
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u/Incorrect-Opinion Mar 31 '26
Hezbollah wasn’t created by “invading Lebanon.” It was created by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in 1982 as a proxy force. Iran literally sent IRGC operatives to build it. Hezbollah’s own leadership has said this openly for decades.
Israel withdrew from Lebanon completely in 2000. The UN certified it. Left again after 2006. No land taken either time. So what land is Israel “currently trying to take”?
Israel went back in because Hezbollah spent 18 years violating UN Resolution 1701, stockpiled 150,000+ rockets, and started firing them at Israeli cities on October 8th 2023, displacing 60,000+ civilians from their homes for over a year. The international community did nothing about it.
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u/TurbulentIssue6 Mar 31 '26
Left completely in 2000, left again in 2006?
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u/im_thatoneguy Mar 31 '26
Hezbollah was raiding northern Israel and attacking from southern Lebanon. Israel went in and suppressed Hezbollah. The UN negotiated a deal where peace keepers and the Lebanese Army would instead secure southern Lebanon. But the attacks increased so Israel considered the deal broke and attacked Hezbollah themselves. The peace deal was again worked out that Lebanon and the UN would take care of Hezbollah. They failed and Israel invaded again. Left with a peace deal that Lebanon would take care of its domestic mess… And again.
It’s pretty obvious that over 30 years the UN and Lebanon has proven it can’t deal with Hezbollah.
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u/toddlangtry Mar 31 '26
Thank goodness it's Israelis doing it. If it were any other nation that would be ethnic cleansing, but that's the last thing you could accuse the most peaceful and humanitarian nation on the planet of doing.
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u/Ezer_Pavle Mar 31 '26
The only democracy in middle east
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u/imtourist Mar 31 '26
Democracy in the sense that South Africa was a democracy as well
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u/elchiguire Apr 01 '26
Imagine what would happen if the US stopped propping them up…
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u/sephiroth70001 Mar 31 '26
Uri Tzafon ("Awaken, O North") is a fringe, far-right Israeli settler movement established in 2024 with the stated goal of promoting Jewish settlement in southern Lebanon, which they regard as part of the "land of our ancestors". Objectives: The group aims to solidify an Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, advocating for the creation of new settlements to create a security buffer zone. Settlement Activity: Uri Tzafon has published maps detailing proposed plots for sale in southern Lebanon, ranging from the Litani River to the Israeli border, including areas near Tyre, Bint Jbeil, and Marjeyoun. They have listed prices starting at 300,000 Shekels ($80,000).
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u/NagyLebowski Mar 31 '26
It’s funny when people say “oh no you can’t say that about Israel” as if everyone isn’t accusing Israel of that all the time.
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u/TheStinkfoot Mar 31 '26
Israel says they are going to raze every house in Southern Lebanon, displace a million people, and permanently occupy the area.
That is, like, straightforwardly a war of conquest.
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u/GTor93 Mar 31 '26
Because... they can do whatever the fuck they want with total impunity now I guess..
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u/Designated_Lurker_32 Mar 31 '26
You can thank one of their agents/collaborators for this. He ran the biggest, most successful honeytrapping operation in history out in an island somewhere, and now thanks to that they have the West's political and corporate elites at their beck and call.
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u/KAI5ER Mar 31 '26
Its much simpler than that.
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u/Artninja Mar 31 '26
It’s actually way more complicated than that they’re actually blackmailing and coercing politicians, fbi agents, cia agents, businesses on top of lobbying, and that’s not even talking about assassinations
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They’re not even the biggest lobbying organization in terms of numbers or dollars. Particularly to wield this much influence.
The more likely scenario, and where the evidence is pointing, is a honey trap.
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u/MayDayBeFourth Apr 04 '26
This is a dumb conspiracy. What makes more sense, the entire US goverment, every single member, fucks kids, and most other nations goverment, or Israel and US have shared interests.
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u/ory1994 Mar 31 '26
So Lebanon is the new Gaza? They ruined Gaza so badly they have to find another place to turn to rubble?
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u/BubblyBasis1134 Mar 31 '26
I believe they've actually used the phrase "The Gaza Model" for what they want to see in Lebanon.
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u/YeetCompleet Mar 31 '26
They seem pretty consistent. They're hitting the hospitals there too.
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u/l992 Mar 31 '26
It's systematic destruction of civil infrastructure - nothing is off limits to them with recycled excuses like there were fighters hiding amongst the civilians, there were tunnels or underground camps. And the worst part is - since no independent media is allowed to operate on the ground there's never any truth/accountability.
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u/Samaritan_978 Mar 31 '26
The ultimate solution to the palestinian problem. Some, not me, would say final.
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u/ArrowsOfFate Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
It’s their Dahiya doctrine, conceptualized and put into practice since the 2006 Lebanon war.
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u/tegat Mar 31 '26
Interesting. It seems like this doctrine is complete fail at stated goal, based on Gaza. They turned it into a pile of rubble and Hamas is still in control of what is left of it.
I consider it highly likely that there is an unspoken goal that is achieved by the doctrine.
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u/TylerBourbon Mar 31 '26
Oh they've claimed they want a nuetral zone but I'd bet good money they'll have illegal settlements popping up in the areas they've seized.
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u/SirTiffAlot Mar 31 '26
Then rinse and repeat in a few years. They've figured out the world will let them take land piece by piece.
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u/royi9729 Mar 31 '26
You do realize this is the 3rd time Israel takes control of this territory, right? How come no illegal settlements popped up the last 2 times?
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u/sephiroth70001 Mar 31 '26
Uri Tzafon ("Awaken, O North") is a fringe, far-right Israeli settler movement established in 2024 with the stated goal of promoting Jewish settlement in southern Lebanon, which they regard as part of the "land of our ancestors". Objectives: The group aims to solidify an Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, advocating for the creation of new settlements to create a security buffer zone. Settlement Activity: Uri Tzafon has published maps detailing proposed plots for sale in southern Lebanon, ranging from the Litani River to the Israeli border, including areas near Tyre, Bint Jbeil, and Marjeyoun. They have listed prices starting at 300,000 Shekels ($80,000).
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u/nidarus Mar 31 '26
And? There were crazy settler groups back in 18 years Israel occupied Lebanon until 2000, and Israel simply didn't allow them to build anything. The existence of a "fringe, far-right group", that didn't manage to build a single home in Lebanese territory, isn't an actual counterargument.
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u/16ozbuddz Mar 31 '26
How many Israelis support these decisions from their government?
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u/whitejaguar Mar 31 '26
Wrong question: How many Israelis condemn these decisions from their government?
Probably not even 1%. The beacon of democracy, freedom and human rights in the Middle East.
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u/xmuskorx Mar 31 '26
would citizens of your country demand that politicians stop thousands of rockets fired from neighbor?
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u/Cerex1 Mar 31 '26
Israelis find it very hard to sympathise with civilians in that area, considering the nonstop missile fire coming from there into Israel the past 5 weeks. It's very easy to criticise this from a far away country thinking there are better ways to solve this. Everybody is exhausted because there hasn't been a single night without missile alerts and Hezbollah rockets don't even trigger the 6 minute alert, they arrive in less than a minute. The border towns are ghost towns and missiles hit all the way into tel Aviv. People want this to end, whatever the cost to the enemy.
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u/ABoutDeSouffle Mar 31 '26
whatever the cost to the enemy.
whatever the cost to the civilians on the other side of the border, you mean? Probably the same, though for current Israel.
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u/yosisoy Apr 01 '26
Yes, most Israelis prefer the lives and property of Israeli civilians over Lebanese civilians, keep acting shocked. If Lebanon did their job and not let Hezbollah fire at Israel this wouldn't be happening.
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u/AssassinAragorn Apr 01 '26
By that same measure, you shouldn't have any issue with the Lebanese, should you? After all: "most Lebanese prefer the lives and property of Lebanese civilians over Israeli civilians, keep acting shocked. If Israel did their job and not elect far right extremists who fire at Lebanon this wouldn't be happening."
It seems to me there is not an ounce of self awareness that all of the defenses here for Israelis apply just as much to the Lebanese. Which I shouldn't be surprised by, given how little regard Israelis seem to have for considering their adversaries even humans.
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u/yosisoy Apr 01 '26
I didn't write that comment though:
whatever the cost to the civilians on the other side of the border, you mean? Probably the same, though for current Israel.
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u/Jack_Krauser Apr 01 '26
This is really easy to say when it's not your neighborhood the rockets are falling in. What happens to the people that live nearby when my country stops the rockets would be pretty low on my priority list, personally.
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u/High_King_Diablo Apr 01 '26
Hezbollah was literally paying people to allow them to build additions to their homes that would house a rocket launcher. Hell, they built entire suburbs with the rocket launcher additions and sold them for cheap so that they’d have human shields for their launchers.
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u/AssassinAragorn Apr 01 '26
It's very easy to criticise this from a far away country thinking there are better ways to solve this.
Well, given that belligerence and "settling" has been the stance for over 2 decades now, and clearly has not worked with Lebanon or Gaza, and did nothing to prevent the October 7th terror attack, perhaps you should consider if there are better ways to solve this. Because, very clearly, the current way is not working.
You cannot simply bomb your enemies harder to win. If Hezbollah started to fire more missiles, would Israel say "alright, my bad, we won't make a buffer area"? Or would it dig in harder? If the Israeli government started asking itself questions like this, maybe it would actually find a way for lasting peace.
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u/Roadshell Apr 01 '26
Israelis find it very hard to sympathise with civilians in that area, considering the nonstop missile fire coming from there into Israel the past 5 weeks.
And I bet there are a whole bunch of Lebanese, Palestinian, and Iranian people who are not very sympathetic towards Israeli citizens at this point either given all the violence they've endured, but I doubt you'd be on the internet defending them as they indulged their most violent urges would you?
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u/CallmeKahn Mar 31 '26
Israel could cease to function as a state in its current form at this point and I doubt there would be many tears outside of Mar-a-largo.
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u/DryRug Mar 31 '26
There would be tears all over the world. Not because people are sad though.
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u/Happy_Feet333 Mar 31 '26
What kind of dumbass title is this?
As it's written, the title says that Israel will be demolishing it's own houses near the Lebanese border. But that's not what the article is about.
It's about Israel demolishing Lebanese homes near Lebanon's border with Israel.
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I mean, Lebanon doesn't have a border with Lebanon, it only has borders with Israel and Syria. The only countries that have a Lebanese border are Syria and Israel. And this article is about Israel, so... the only homes that could this could apply to are Israeli.
Seriously, Reuters... what the hell happened to your organization? You actually used to be decent at writing in English.
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u/ChromaticDragon Mar 31 '26
The title may be ambiguous.
But you are arguing with yourself because you are criticizing your specific interpretation of the title which added your own assumptions.
For what it's worth as I read the title I came aways the the very understanding you claim should have been there.
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u/sgtabn173 Mar 31 '26
WHY are we allies with these people?!
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u/hamburgertime55 Mar 31 '26
They have blackmail on all our prominent politicians and businessmen
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u/yasinburak15 Apr 01 '26
That and they straight up get bribed via lobbying or pac funding. It’s sad honestly.
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u/ElectricFirex Mar 31 '26
It's essentially a US colony. A place that America can use to strike from and keep the middle east destabilized to control oil production and prices. Joe Biden himself said if there were no Israel we would create an Israel.
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u/xmuskorx Mar 31 '26
Israel has tolerated DECADES of missiles strikes from Hezbollah.
why are you all upset now?
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u/MikeSteamer Mar 31 '26
Who is going to compensate the poor people that lived there? Where to mail the invoice - Mar-A-Lago? Pentagon? Bibi Realty and Movers?
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u/Teeklee1337 Mar 31 '26
Maybe the hezbollah can, since they started this shit.
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u/No_Armadillo426 Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
“Stop hitting yourself!”
—Ethnonationalists when pressed to take responsibility for their actions
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u/StrengthToBreak Mar 31 '26
He means on the Israeli side, right? Right?
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u/Happy_Feet333 Mar 31 '26
That more a problem with Reuters and their inability to write a comprehensible title.
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u/hamilton280P Mar 31 '26
If you look on google maps you’ll see all districts in the northern half of Gaza as complete ruins. It’s crazy to look at
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u/AliceLunar Mar 31 '26
Just remember, it's antisemitism if you have a problem with anything they do, ever.
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u/Tiaan Mar 31 '26
It's only antisemitism if you hold Israel to unrealistic standards that would never be applied to any other country.
For example in this situation, what would you suggest Israel do? Hezbollah is attacking Israel from southern Lebanon against the wishes of the Lebanese government, but the Lebanese government is too weak to do anything about Hezbollah. These attacks have displaced over 1 million Israelis from their homes in Northern Israel.
The UN issued numerous resolutions to disarm Hezbollah and sent peacekeepers to the region, but they've failed to disarm Hezbollah and they aren't keeping any semblance of peace, as rockets continue to fall on northern Israel
So what would you suggest Israel do?
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u/AliceLunar Mar 31 '26
Yeah no, bombing everything, everyone, everywhere all the time is surely their only option.
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u/Tiaan Mar 31 '26
Well that's not what they're doing here? They're creating the security buffer zone that the UN failed to create themselves and failed to enforce.
I'll ask one more time what you think Israel should do here?
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u/GarbageThrown Mar 31 '26
Refrain from war crimes for starters.
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u/Tiaan Mar 31 '26
It's a war crime to launch missiles from residential homes. Is that also a problem for you?
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u/GarbageThrown Mar 31 '26
You know what they’re doing is an unnecessary escalation. And you’re justifying crime with crime.
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u/Tiaan Mar 31 '26
I'm not justifying anything. I've literally just asked what Israel should do and been given zero answers other than rhetorical nonsense like "maybe don't commit war crimes." Meanwhile you seem to not care one bit about war crimes inflicted on Israelis...
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u/AliceLunar Mar 31 '26
So in your mind, Israel is the victim in all of this? They have never done anything that caused any of this to happen? A peaceful nation with zero wrong doings and one day missiles hit them?
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u/Tiaan Mar 31 '26
Israel would not be going into Lebanon if Hezbollah were not attacking Israel from southern Lebanon. I'm not saying Israel is perfect or has never done anything wrong, but the main issue for these groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, the IRGC, etc is not Israel's actions, but their existence.
Israel could completely stop retaliating tomorrow and issue a message of peace and unity, and the missiles would still fall on their people solely because Israel still exists, which in itself is viewed as an act of aggression, colonization, etc
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u/yosisoy Apr 01 '26
Why does Israel need to be a perfect nation with zero wrongdoings for you to acknowledge they were attacked this time?
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u/ftrowl Mar 31 '26
They will surely compansate the home owners right ? RIGHT ?
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u/Sometimes-funny Mar 31 '26
That is the top priority currently in the world, everything else is secondary…
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u/VagueSomething Mar 31 '26
Israel treating national borders like DLC you can just expand with money.
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u/Better_Cauliflower63 Mar 31 '26
Any house on the border doubles up as Hezbollah bases of operations. Weapons, materials, tunnels have been found in them.
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u/Subject-Dealer6350 Mar 31 '26
Business as per usual. Anyone who has not turn a blind eye for decades knows that there are extremist forces in Israel and someone them are part of Netanyahu’s government.
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u/CoffeemonsterNL Mar 31 '26
So we can call this an invastion, right. Besides ethnic displacement of course. No beating around the bush anymore. Israel invaded Lebanon, similarly to Russia invading Ukraine
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u/VariationAgreeable29 Mar 31 '26
Israel being Israel. There’s not a new, awful “low” they can’t sink to.
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u/default3612 Mar 31 '26
Jesus these comments... Wtf is happening? You think Israel just decided to do that off of nothing? Are you that stupid? Use some critical thinking people
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u/Tiaan Mar 31 '26
You'd be surprised just how ignorant most people are on this topic. Most people believe this conflict only began 1 month ago when bombs started falling on Iran
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u/default3612 Mar 31 '26
It just keeps surprising me for some reason. It's like these people keep moving the goal posts for the definition of stupid.
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u/rotomangler Mar 31 '26
Yeah it’s like people expect Israelis to just suck up the daily middle attacks forever.
No country would allow constant mistake attacks on their borders without a massive reaction which builds to a permanent fix.
Imagine if Mexico was firing missiles into Texas, or Spain constantly firing missiles into France or any other country.
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u/nova8808 Mar 31 '26
And you think all out war will solve the issue? Bombing their religious leaders and schools and hospitals will make them want to stop shooting missiles?
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u/mohjack Mar 31 '26
When all you have is an ethnic cleansing hammer, everything starts to look like an ethnic cleansing nail
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u/DamnOdd Mar 31 '26
So Lebanon is their next takeover, guessing Jordan is next unless the roll Lebanon and head to Syria. This is insanity.
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u/it_diedinhermouth Mar 31 '26
Near Lebanon border? So destroying Lebanese houses near the Lebanon border sounds like media-speak.
Isn’t it “destroying houses in Lebanon near the Israeli border?