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Protesters Shut Down Los Angeles Highway to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza (truthout.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No more business as usual," the organization leading the protest said on social media.

Dozens of Jewish protesters and their allies were arrested on Wednesday morning after they blocked rush hour traffic on a busy Los Angeles highway to demand a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just gonna say: Reagan stopped the bombing of Beirut with a phone call.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

After the bombings? That would have been done by primarily US troops, so of course he could stop it with a phone call.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

After the what? We're talking about Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought you might be referring to the 1983 attacks.

I was a little underdeveloped at that age to be aware of everything going on.

Doesn't look like he stopped anything though, given that fighting continued despite the ceasefire for a few more years, and that Israel still attacks Lebanon on a regular basis because of Hezbollah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

He didn't stop the conflict as a whole, but he stopped the bombing of west Beirut itself.

That bombing was followed by a protest to the Israeli government by President Ronald Reagan. Within 20 minutes of a phone call between Reagan and Begin, in which the former said the bombings were going too far and needed to stop, Begin ordered the bombings stopped.