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Israel’s Genocide in Gaza | 2023- till present
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Jordan and Egypt only have themselves to blame
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Israel’s invasion shows its deadly lack of restraint
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Within days of Hamas’s deadly attack on October 7, in which it killed more than 1,000 Israelis and took 230 hostages, people in Lebanon began to brace themselves for the possibility they would be pulled inexorably into the orbit of Israel’s wrath. Over the past year the Israeli government has responded to the attack by laying waste to the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, killing more than 40,000 Palestinians, carrying out a series of deadly raids in the West Bank and heavily bombarding Lebanon from the air.
The nightmare scenario came to pass on Monday night, when Israeli troops launched a ground invasion of Lebanese territory.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, which is also the country’s most powerful political bloc, played no role in the October 7 attack, but has nonetheless backed Hamas by firing rockets regularly into northern Israel. While most Lebanese are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, many are opposed to Hezbollah’s stranglehold on Lebanon’s economy and political system as well as any action that would unleash Israel’s superior military might in their direction.
Hezbollah is aware of this. Although its leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israel last week in an air raid on Beirut, was a world-class provocateur, he had spent the past year attempting to calibrate his forces’ attacks on Israel to the degree where they might fall just short of triggering a full-scale war. That strategy, however, may have overestimated the Israeli leadership’s level of restraint, and underestimated its commitment – contentious even within Israel – to wiping out Israel’s enemies even at the cost of tens of thousands of innocent civilian lives.
In Israel’s telling of events, its actions since October 7 have been entirely defensive, sophisticated and even humane. Reality paints a different picture. Its “limited” objective of freeing hostages and targeting Hamas’s leadership quickly transformed into efforts to starve large numbers of civilians, as the International Criminal Court Prosecutor has alleged, and an open-ended mission to occupy much of Gaza. Israeli “surgical strikes” on Gazan schools and refugee camps have killed hundreds of civilians, as well as UN workers.
In launching its Lebanon invasion, Israel has used similar vocabulary, describing its operation as “limited” and “targeted”, but Lebanese civilians are fleeing the south in droves. Israel’s “precise” strikes in Beirut last week, including the strike that killed Nasrallah, resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties. More than one million people in Lebanon, in a country of fewer than six million, have been displaced since Israel’s recent raids began, according to the Lebanese Prime Minister’s office. In truth, any talk of precision is at best naïve or at worst dangerously dishonest.
Lebanese civilians will bear the highest cost of any continued escalation, though they will not be the only ones bearing a cost. Israel’s own population has seen its military stretched thin, likely to an unsustainable degree, its economy suffer greatly and the hostages Hamas took on October 7 put in further peril. The disaster of Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon in 1982 remains fresh in many Israelis’ – and Lebanese – memories.
The lesson of that war, commonly referred to as “Israel’s Vietnam”, was clear enough: Israel cannot fight its way to peace, and attempting to do so is more likely to breed opposite results.
Hassan Al-Somal
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People go to jail for longer period of time, you're talking about a decade, if they reveal any casualties that are not revealed by the "Israeli" occupation forces. So the high casualties they suffered in Gaza is very obvious.
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I don't think this is the correct thread for that
925boy
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If casualties = killed and wounded, he is most likely correct. Then why has Israel done forced mobilizations and multiple call-up of "reserves"? Obviously its ground forces got eroded in Gaza, and we also get this sense from how long its taken Israel to get its no- advancement-yet ground offensive in Lebanon going-because Gaza proved to be way more challenging for the IDF's ground forces.Oh, la la, which war are you following, in which the Israelis took 50,000 casualties?
If that were to be the case, Netanyahu would have been hanged by now from a bridge in Tel Aviv.
No one here can factually show me Israel's interception rates of Gaza and Lebanon projectiles being over 70%(and this is conservative)!!
925boy
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Due to its negligence, low self esteem and no sense of duty, Egypt can be called as bad/criminal as Israel is-it became an accomplice (one can argue) by sitting idly by as Israel committed Genocide against its fellow Arabs and Muslims in Gaza. If you want to know how far Muslims in the world have fallen, you mostly need to look at Egypt and Turkey. When NATO has a manic episode after losing in Ukraine, Turkey may become "homeless"- without the West it is apparently not worth much.
925boy
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So will Hezbollah- it will keep firing rockets into Israel for many months to come.
omegalamba7xl9
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Finally right questions are being asked....
Khansaheeb
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Sounds like Hitler's ambition to take over Europe and the world. Only difference is they will get the US to do the dirty work.
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Where should it go then..?
Alter_Ego
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Interesting.
Why hasnt Iran supplied Hizbollah with Shaheed drones or atleast some variants of it?
Khansaheeb
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Canadian Parliamentarian Heather Macpherson condemns her country's government's continued support of the occupation during the genocidal war on Gaza and the repeated aggression against Lebanon.
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