Israeli army chief says military is preparing for possible ground operation in Lebanon
Israeli army chief says military is preparing for possible ground operation in Lebanon
The Israeli military said it intercepted the surface-to-surface missile, which set off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel.
The Israeli army chief said Wednesday that the military is preparing for a possible ground operation in Lebanon as Hezbollah hurled dozens of projectiles into Israel, including a missile aimed at Tel Aviv that was the militant group’s deepest strike yet.
Addressing troops on the northern border, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the latest Israeli airstrikes were designed to ”prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah.”
In an apparent reference to the missile aimed at Tel Aviv, he said: “Today, Hezbollah expanded its range of fire, and later today, they will receive a very strong response. Prepare yourselves.”
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Ground Invasion. Call it what it is. Lebanon is it's own sovereign nation and Israel wants to invade to "take out Hezbollah" and in the mean time steal more land.
I bet "Hezbollah" and "Hamas" will have their final bases deep inside Iran.
Since Lebanon won't take care of private actors attacking Israel there isn't any other option. If I were sending rockets into Canada the US would arrest me. (I have minimal understanding of Lebanon politics, but what I know suggests they can't and many are hoping Isreal solves the problem for them)
Since Lebanon won't take care of private actors attacking Israel there isn't any other option.
Not committing genocide is a pretty good option.
The misstles they are launching into Isreal is attempted genocide. But since Isreal can do no good you will ignore that.
Don’t you dare downplay genocide.
What Israel is doing is unimaginable evil, systematic wholesale slaughter of children and other innocents.
Not at all on the scale of some pissy little rocket attacks that’s rarely hit anything.
Spare me the hyperbole. Hamas is just as evil for continuing to hold hostages knowing the price their citizens are paying.
Hamas could take 5x as many hostages and still not come close to genocide.
As if they aren't just as complicit.
Hamas has agreed to a permanent ceasefire and full hostage release for months. Israel has kept thousands of Palestinians hostage, including hundreds of children, in torture prisons, where they are tortured in the most inhumane ways possible, sexually abused, and even raped to death. Israel has been the one that has prioritized the genocide of Palestinians over the safe release of the hostages, at the expense of both.
Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons
Israel also jails children without trial or with a forced confession, and tortures them. Palestinians are jailed without charge, forced into false confessions, routinely tortured, raped, denied medical attention, and sometimes killed as a result
Palestinians denied civil rights (HRW) including Military Court (B'TSelem)
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel (wiki)
Children are jailed and abused in Israeli prisons (Save The Children)
Torture and Abuse in Interrogations (B'TSelem)
Thousands of Palestinians are held without charge under Israeli detention policy (NPR)
One or Two State Solution
The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other. By its actions, if not always in its rhetoric, Israel has opted for land-grabbing and as we speak Israel is expanding settlements. So, Israel has been systematically destroying the basis for a viable Palestinian state and this is the declared objective of the Likud and Netanyahu who used to pretend to accept a two-state solution. In the lead up to the last election, he said there will be no Palestinian state on his watch. The expansion of settlements and the wall mean that there cannot be a viable Palestinian state with territorial contiguity. The most that the Palestinians can hope for is Bantustans, a series of enclaves surrounded by Israeli settlements and Israeli military bases.
- Avi Shlaim
How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution
‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs
Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades. Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution
Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.
Source
During the current war, Hamas officials have said that the group does not want to return to ruling Gaza and that it advocates for forming a government of technocrats to be agreed upon by the various Palestinian factions. That government would then prepare for elections in Gaza and the West Bank, with the intention of forming a unified government.
Hamas officials should be held accountable for all war crimes committed, same as all Israeli officials. That said, there are many parallels between the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Gaza.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai, an Israeli, has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video
blah blah tu quoque blah. Hamas doesn't release the hostages = complicit
They are not because they are not committing a genocide.
You might as well say a bank robber taking hostages is as bad as Hitler and the holocaust if you want to downplay the severity of genocide so much.
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Israel could do good but they choose genocide instead.
Attempted genocide gives them too much credit. If you read the stories on Hezbollah attacks, you'll see the same line come up again and again:
"There were no reports of casualties or damage."
They're trying to do something, they just aren't very effective.
Mossad agents (probably) dispatched to your location.
They already took down the Al Jazeera Building in Israel, so you're not wrong
Russia used the private actors in Donbas as their pretense for invasion too.
And the whole shoooting down a civilian airliner thing.
Since israel is refusing to stop it's occupation of many territories. Israel will never be able to be at peace
Never say never. At this rate it is very much in the realm of possibility that Israel gets to be at peace AND occupies all the territory it wants. Unless anti-zionists start cluing in to this very real danger it might actually come to pass.