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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] 20 points 1 week ago

Small Hitler can't get enough.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Netanyahu: "Here I go, killing again!" If I was the US president would simply give Netanyahu the Osama Bin Laden treatment. Have some special ops dump his body in the ocean, send a message to the next Israeli PM there are consequences.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So he admits it. The plan was always to destroy Gaza, not Hamas, wasn't it? Israel has some of the most advanced weaponry and intelligence out of any government on Earth, and the best they can do is indiscriminately bomb hospitals, refugee camps, residential blocks, and schools just in case Hamas is there, which is considered a warcrime by The Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of the ICC. Rules of engagement state you do not attack civilian infrastructure in order to eliminate hostiles, unless you can demonstrate that the loss of civilian life is negligible compared to the military advantage gained from attacking a civilian building that houses hostiles. I'm sure the IDF really needed that hospital to run tactical ops out of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Notice that the schools, hospitals, residential blocks, etc in Lebanon are attacked without even a modicum of pretense. The justifications for bombing hospitals last year were clearly half-assed and false, but now they don't even bother to give them.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Points gun at someone's head."Don't make me kill you! If I do it'll be your own fault!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Terrorism is when ones tries to achieve political objectives by putting pressure on a population through attacks on non-military targets.

What Israel is saying here is like Bin Laden hitting the Twin Towers to "pressure their political opponents".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I can't support this. It's like America's little putin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Wonder when he will attack Poland

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

A yes, the classic "start a war with the people we don't like or we will start the war for you". Truly sympathetic shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

"Overthrow your government for us. C'mon. Do it or I'll punch you harder!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

That's a tad bit difficult since Hezbollah military rivals that of the Lebanese government. This is pretty much an impossible request and him saying that he's going to cause Lebanon "destruction and suffering"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

So effing sick... 😥

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