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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the Washington Post…unfortunately the headline selectively reads the strike was on a Hezbollah leader but it’s clear with 4-6 buildings destroyed this is not selective targeting.

Since it began Monday with a ferocious aerial barrage, Israel’s military operation against Hezbollah has killed more than 700 people in Lebanon and set off a spiraling humanitarian crisis.

It was too early to tell the real toll of Friday’s strike, said Firass Abiad, Lebanon’s health minister. Four to six buildings were “completely demolished,” he added. “We expect fatalities to be high if there were people inside their apartments.[/quote]

The civilian death toll would be minimal if Hezbollah was not intentionally planting their weapons and leadership into civilian areas.

Is it justifiable to kill hundreds of civilians to decimate the leadership of the Hezbollah? Is it justifiable to potentially kill hundreds of civilians to save tens of thousands?

"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."

Be thankful you are not in a position where you must make these decisions. [/quote]

"Is it justifiable to potentially kill hundreds of civilians to save tens of thousands? 
"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."
Be thankful you are not in a position where you must make these decisions."

1) Tell me how Israel's killings are saving "tens of thousands". No Israelis are at risk of imminent threat from Hezbollah.  Yes,  Hezbollah wants to see Israel disappear and has fired rockets into the north of Israel, but (a) Israel has evacuated the residents living there to safe ground and (b) Hezbollah has said they will stop if Israel stops killing in Gaza.

2) If you are all good with "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." then you must have sympathy for the actions Hamas took on 10/7 (they too viewed this as war). I don't have any sympathy or support for Hamas.

3) Be thankful I am not in a decision that I MUST make these decisions. There is no MUST here. No one is making Israel make the military decisions they are making.  In fact, the US and many other countries are telling them not to.

There is no imminent threat to Israel.

There is actual and live threat, killing, maiming, terrorizing Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank. [/quote]

I don't think the Israelis are leaving.

You may not like that, but sometimes the people you don't think should win, still win.

Continuing to insist on making "Israel disappear" will not make Israel disappear. Anyone who sincerely wants to save the lives of Gazans and Lebanese civilians has to accept this reality.[/quote]

Israel has too much of a destabilizing influence on the region because of their control on Western media and weapons. If one believes Israel wants to just live peace, they’re not paying attention. Israel wants dominance not peace and they want dominance by way of Mossad’s motto:

By way of deception, we shall wage war

They  never stepped foot in Lebanon but somehow can tell everyone how Lebanese people feel about each other and can “predict” sectarianian infighting among groups.

Well, surely if a cash funnel and weapons funnel comes in from USA, some hooligans will be exported and farmed out to become a paramilitary but the people are all smart enough to know Christian vs Muslim and Shia vs Sunni are not the real problem here and they are all fake problems that didn’t exist before the 1970s.

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