Billot comments

Their tactics are so easy to see through. International law only matters if it’s there to punish Israel. If Israel benefits then international law doesn’t matter and they’ll try to pivot away to some other argument

100%.

Sometimes I feel it's like conversing with an AI trained only on AlJazeera

Please stop cherry picking International Law or UN resolution,

Lol that was purely an attempt to speak in a language that the rabidly anti-Israel might comprehend.

But it's hardly necessary to refer to international law, which is more often than not plagued by bias by those supporting terror at the UN.

INSTEAD I need only mention that Israel has had to evacuate 10% of its ENTIRE LANDMASS because of Hezbollah missiles to the North of Israel.

In such a scenario, for example if Japan had to EVACUATE HOKKAIDO because Russia was lobbing rockets for A YEAR, you better believe Japan would FIGHT BACK.

The Lebanese government has not invited the Israeli army to cross the border. The Israelis are invaders.

Lol SOME? Hardly, Lebanon is made up of Sunni muslims, Shia muslims, Druze, and Christians. Hezbollah is controlled by the Shia Islamist clerics from IRAN.

That leaves the MAJORITY in favor of UPROOTING the FOREIGN INFLUENCE OF IRAN.

The Lebanese army also WANTS Hezbollah gone, because they ARE POWERLESS relative to Hezbollah.

ADDITIONALLY: As per above, UN resolution 1701 for Hezbollah to be removed south of the Litani HAS NEVER BEEN ENFORCED.

Given that Israel has had to evacuate 10% of its ENTIRE LANDMASS because of Hezbollah missiles to the North of Israel, you better believe it's PAST DUE for Israel to FINALLY enforce resolution 1701, allow their citizens to return, and also shift the power balance within Lebanon AGAINST HEZBOLLAH

Looking forward to a sea of Lebanese flags everywhere on social media, in corporate offices and next to national flags at capital buildings.

DEFINITELY! So MANY Lebanese CAN'T WAIT to GET RID OF HEZBOLLAH!!

Just check out Reddit r/lebanon. So many are CHEERING for the death of Nasrallah, they are dancing in the streets!

They are praying for the eventual demise of Hezbollah, and for Israel to make this DREAM a REALITY!

There are untold Syrian and Lebanese videos making fun of Hezbollah, it's WONDERFUL to see! No longer will Hezbollah abuse Lebanon. Go Israel!

Attacking Lebanon it just repeated pattern from the past.

Hardly: It's ACTUALLY to enforce UN resolution 1701 which dates back to 2006. This requires that Hezbollah move back to the Litani River, to be replaced by the Lebanese army.

Unfortunately, as I'm sure you fully understand, Hezbollah is EMBEDDED COMPLETELY south of the Litani.

As it TURNS OUT, they don't want to leave. Hence Israel's incursion to remove Hezbollah. The Lebanese army (separate from Hezbollah), is leaving, by contrast, to ALLOW Israel to uproot Hesbollah, which the Lebanes army is incapable of doing, since they are unfortunately too weak to do so.

They are also going to remove 150,000 missiles and rockets.

INCREDIBLY, when you take out the Hezbollah leadership, 150,000 missiles and rockets don't just go poof; they have to actually be REMOVED, and it seems Hezbollah want to keep em all.

kurisupisu

Someone explain please.

How does destroying a power station in Yemen prevent the launching of missiles?

HAPPY to oblige my FRIEND! It sends the direct message: HOUTHI REBELS, STOP SENDING BALLISTIC MISSILES AT TEL AVIV, OR YOU WILL FACE CONSEQUENCES

Is that too complicated, or must I explain it in SIMPLER terms?

Moderator: You have made your point. No need for further posts here.

MarkX

I just can't understand what Israel is thinking now. At first they had sympathy for the October 7 attacks, but that quickly disappeared with their massive attacks on Gaza. Now moving on the Lebanon and Yemin, this will never end well, and they are just empowering more hatred towards them!

"if the choice is between being dead and getting sympathy and being alive and being criticized by your enemies, then we would rather be alive"

Does this make sense to you MarkX? Or do you prefer Israel just lie down and die?

Israel is surrounded by enemies who have codified Israeli deaths into their charters. YOU BETTER BELIEVE ISRAEL DOESN'T CARE ABOUT WORLD OPINION WHEN THEIR LIVES ARE AT STAKE.

Tamarama

Israel is unhinged.

Your definition of unhinged is interesting. If by unhinged you mean preemptively strike an enemy who wants to SLAUGHTER every man woman and child in Israel, because they are Islamist terrorists backed by Iran.

If that's your definition of unhinged, then may we all be unhinged, lest we get murdered instead

kurisupisu

Do the Jews also claim Lebanese land too?

Claim? What claims? You do know that Israel returned almost the entirety of the Sinai to Egypt for peace (after Egypt tried to invade Israel) AND removed their OWN citizens from Gaza to allow Gazan arabs a chance to create a state (OOPS! they elected Hamas!).

The Israeli state claims to act in its defense but the actions speak to ‘offense’

It's called "preemptive strike". You know that concept that applies when your ENEMY WANTS TO KILL ALL WOMEN AND CHILDREN ISRAEL, because they are Iranian backed Islamists, so you attack before they can do so.

I suppose your solution for Israel is to just wait and die. NOT GONNA HAPPEN lol

BobFosse

Through acts of terrorism Israel are ensuring Hezbollah exist for generations to come.

Lol, it's amazing how incorrect this statement is

Corrected: through preemptive strikes, Israel completely destroyed Hezbollah's chain of command, opening the door to a positive future in which Lebanon is FREE from the curse of an Iranian backed terrorist proxy for generations to come.

Tamarama

Israel a US backed and enabled monster killing with absolute impunity now.

Hezbollah, an Iranian backed and enabled Islamist death machine, intent on wiping every last man woman and child in Israel off the map. Hmmm... they should probably be stopped. GO IDF!!

kurisupisu

When does defense become offense?

Sadly, when Hezbollah has been firing thousands of missiles into Israel for A YEAR, it's time for the poked bear to respond. If Israel had an alternative, rest assured they would implement it (and know, your likely suggestion of "Israel should just sit and take it" ain't the best idea.

Again, the international community has called for a cease fire and after destroying Hezbollah members and Nasrallah’s death,

Funny how the International community calls for cease fire EVERY time Israel defends itself. ONe might even suspect that they don't have Israel's interest at heart, hmmm?

However, what the Israelis have yet to realise is that the violence being wrought on hundreds of thousands of innocent people will beget more of the same against them, in the future.

It's surely a strange coincidence that Islamist Iranian-backed proxies beget more of the same again and again, given that the death of all Jews in Israel is their GOAL. I suppose your advise is to... just die? Unfortunately (for those like yourself), Jews, and Zionists would prefer NOT to die. We will therefore defend ourselves from the relentless onslaught of terrorism.

WoodyLee

And what's more, Woody, not just Jews, but many of the beautiful Lebanese people themselves are CHEERING Israel onwards in their fight against Hezbollah (see Reddit Lebanon to get a sense, or watch the many youtube videos of Lebanese and also Iranian people cheering the dismemberment of Hezbollah). What's almost hysterical, is that it's people such as yourself who mourn the fading into history of organizations like Hezbollah. Try to put yourself into the shoes of the average Lebanese person, who has seen their BEAUTIFUL country ("the Paris of the Levant") torn apart by Islamists. What they want more than anything is to see Lebanon returned to its prior state, before the Islamists.

Woody

Jews around the world are disgusted by what these war mongers are doing, Jews are now leaving Israel as they do not want anything to do with these war mongers and their crimes against humanity.

Hardly, I'm a proud Jew and proud Zionist, and everyone I know supports the right of Israel to defend itself from Iranian-backed Islamist proxies who have the death of every man woman and child in Israel as a goal in their charter. One would have to be unbearably naive to feel otherwise.

Chabbawanga

Why would they stop whilst the occupation continues?

Lol Israel doesn't seem to very effective occupiers, considering they returned nearly the ENTIRE Sinai back to Egypt and REMOVED their own citizens from Gaza in 2005 to give the Gazan arabs a chance to build their own state (OOPS! They elected Hamas). Chabbawanga, it's a shame that your understanding of history extends as far as the average Tiktok video...

What's really INCREDIBLE is how many Lebanese people are CHEERING for the death of Nasrallah. Lebanon is a very sectarian country (Sunni, Shia, Christian), but if you check out the reddit Lebanon page, you'll get a snapshot of how many Lebanese people are OVERJOYED at his death, because it gives them HOPE that they can rebuild Lebanon free from the influence of Iran (Nasrallah being good pals with Khamenei, and Hezbollah being a proxy of the IRGC). It's also UNSURPRISING to see that this comments section has the usual anti-Israel commenters. Although, I can only imagine that they are in MOURNING over the death of a beloved Islamist terrorist, so I'm surprised they had the ENERGY to post here.

What's really INCREDIBLE is how many Lebanese people are CHEERING for the death of Nasrallah. Lebanon is a very sectarian country (Sunni, Shia, Christian), but if you check out the reddit Lebanon page, you'll get a snapshot of how many Lebanese people are OVERJOYED at his death, because it gives them HOPE that they can rebuild Lebanon free from the influence of Iran (Nasrallah being good pals with Khamenei, and Hezbollah being a proxy of the IRGC). It's also HEARTENING to see that this comments section isn't dominated by the usual anti-Israel commenters (although there are of course a handful). I can only imagine that they are in MOURNING over the death of a beloved Islamist terrorist. When Israel wins, they don't know what to do with themselves.

It started with Nakba

LOL you mean the time where 5 Arab nations tried to destroy a nascent Israel, told all arabs present to leave so they could slaughter all the jews present, and then UTTERLY FAILED to do so? That nakba? Keep proselytizing for Hamas and Hezbollah there buddy :)

It's time to test the effectiveness of Israel's 9 million "human shields". What's good for the goose etc.

It's okay @u_s__reamer, this is a safe space. You can finally admit loud and proud that you love dead jews. C'mon buddy; don't be shy! Meanwhile, keep crying yourself to sleep knowing that Hamas and Hizbollah are getting their asses handed to them ;)

And of course israel expects US to provide lots of canon fodder.

Hardly. Just expects them to stay out of the way. And you know, stop requiring nonsense ceasefires that only allow terrorists groups to regroup after their beeper and cellphone losses.

Another area for settlement? Just wait for it.\

@sakurasuki are you serious? You do realize that Israel fully withdrew from Gaza in 2005, uprooting their own citizens from Gaza, in order to give Palestinians the opportunity to create their own country, right? Doesn't sound like a very good settlement policy to remove your own citizens huh? Kinda sounds like the exact opposite of settlement. Yet you claim they want to settle Lebanon. Sounds pretty illogical.

How does Israel know which homes have weapons or not?

Indiscriminate killing and terror is the modus operandi as it was in Gaza.

You DID hear the news about Hezbollah's pagers, radios and cellphones yes?

If so, it's pretty OBVIOUS that Israel has completely infiltrated Hezbollah's communications - they know everything about their operations. Are you truly that thick @kurisupisu ??

Indiscriminate?? The GrimBeaber operation was possibly the most targeted and least indiscriminate in history.

You are clearly also OBLIVIOUS to the fact that Hamas uses HUMAN SHIELDS to up the body count.