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Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Lebanese people that they could face “destruction and suffering” like the Palestinians in Gaza if they don’t “free” the country from Hezbollah.

“You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza,” the Israeli prime minister said in a video address directed to the people of Lebanon.

"I say to you, the people of Lebanon: Free your country from Hezbollah so that this war can end."

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

why is this man in government and not standing trial in front of the international criminal court

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Because we don't have an international criminal police force.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

This motherfucker's threats sound like they came from fictional villains with bad writers, and yet, American politicians can hear him say this and still believe it's totally normal and good to continue funding Israel's unhinged war crimes and genocide.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Israeli terroristic threats levied to innocent civilians. Must be a wednesday.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Warmongering Israel, fun times.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

The only way this possibility ends in peace is an airstrike resulting in Netanyahu's death, which is rather unlikely

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Why do they hate us so much?

Would it be because I'm a genocidal dictator dick?

Naaah, it must be them, they are the fanatics, they are the psychos, not me!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

So then dont couse the destruction..?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

he'll have to get his piss baby troops into Lebanon first. How's that limited military operation going sir?

[–] [email protected] 200 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just Bibi casually threatening a second genocide, nothing to see here /s

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Biden: "Israel has every right to extend its borders as biblically dictated..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Biblically or bibi-vocally?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (62 children)

I wonder how fully, fully, fully Biden will support it.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (20 children)

"Free yourself from Hezbollah so that it's easier for us to roll in and take everything" is what he's actually saying.

They've already started advertising for new homes for Israeli's to purchase in Lebanon.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

"Look what you're making me do".

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Netanyahu is the closest thing we’ve had to Hitler in quite a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I wish the US election wasn't between Neville Chamberlain and Vidkun Quisling.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What language was the announcement in?

Israel is very consistent in using the language for televised statements in the language of the intended audience.

When Israel states something in English, the intended audience is generally the US, not whom they are addressing.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We have first genocide, yes, but what about second genocide?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's the exact same playbook as in Palestine.

No doubt there will soon be Israeli "settlers" in Lebanese territory surrounded by enormous areas stolen from the locals "for security".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They’ve already been brainwashing their population for a long time:

Children’s book about invading Lebanon

And advertising properties for sale in Lebanon:

Settler group advertises properties for sale in southern Lebanon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A rabidly racist society whose leaders keep telling the West that they have "Western Values".

Yeah, 19th Century White Colonialist Values, same kind that the Belgians in Congo and the Afrikaneers in South Africa had.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

And they act as if we should be afraid of Hamas and Hezbollah.

I certainly don’t support Islamist groups, but both Hamas and Hezbollah have been born out of necessary resistance to Israel’s aggression. There could have been secular or socialist resistance groups, but Hamas and Hezbollah are the ones that have been funded and propped up because it’s easy to paint them as the enemy. Hamas and Hezbollah aren’t coming for any of us.

I have zero fear of Hezbollah or Hamas, but I’m deeply fearful of Zionists.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Then they'll do Syria, then Egypt with the Muslim brotherhood, then they'll attack Iraq, then they'll attack Saudi Arabia, and it'll continue on and on like this.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

They always claim Hezbollah is terrorist, but surely the IDF have a larger civilian kill count and a larger percentage of civilians killed.

Israel feeling pretty confident there is zero consequences to their actions now.

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