cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/590118

During a video address directed at the people of Lebanon, Netanyahu said: "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.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      2 months ago

      Can someone explain to me how this is going to help get the hostages back? I was told this was about hostages.

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        Netanyahu and his cronies don’t care about the hostages. They care about retaining their power. He knows he’s done for once this war ends. He’s hated both by the world and his own citizens.

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          I don’t know how you think these things work but bombing half the Levant isn’t going to make Israel any safer. It just means Hamas and Hezbollah (or whatever group replaces them) will be even more extreme and capable of recruiting militants. You can’t bomb your way to peace.

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            It isn’t that they haven’t learned. It’s that they don’t care. They want to kill. They are what would happen if serial killers and mass murderers become world leaders.

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            Lots of countries that bombed/killed their way to peace would disagree

            Allowing them to rebuild their forces to get a mere 100 hostages back will just lead to more death in the future

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              Israel isn’t fighting a country. It’s, at least ostensibly, fighting terrorism and every civilian killed radicalizes someone. Israel will be less secure in the future because of how Netanyahu has conducted the war in Gaza, not to mention how he’s given settlers — who are terrorists themselves — free rein to steal land and attack West Bank Palestinians. (I say “ostensibly” because Gaza looks a lot more like a genocide than any sort of limited mission to crush Hamas and rescue hostages.)

              Unfortunately, I don’t see Netanyahu’s strategy making Israel more secure in the long term.

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                The irony is that the hostages are safer with hamas. The Israelis are confirmed to have killed hundreds of their own citizens as part of rhe Hannibal doctrine on Oct 7th and have killed hostages in bombing raids.

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                They’re fighting Arab-islamic nationalists who won’t ever give up their fight over Palestine.

                Morocco crushed the resistance in Western Sahara and took their territory. Now there’s peace.

                Azerbaijan crushed the resistance in Nagorno-Kharabach and took their territory. Now there’s peace.

                It’s not pretty, but sometimes it’s ‘better’ overall than letting an armed conflict drag on for eternity.

                edit: Also:

                An opinion poll published in mid-September by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR), a think tank based in Ramallah and funded by Western donors, showed for the first time the majority of Gazans opposed the decision to attack. The poll, conducted in early September, found that 57% of people surveyed in the Gaza Strip said the decision to launch the offensive was incorrect, while just 39% said it was correct – down sharply from the previous poll in June.

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                  So in addition to advocating for genocide in Gaza, you’re going to advocate for ethnic cleansing of Armenians and the people of Western Sahara?

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                    I’m not advocating for any of those, but I understand you want to make it appear as such

                    I’m saying that the most peaceful solution is for Hezbollah (and Hamas) to accept their loss and stop trying to ethnically cleanse the jews out of Palestine. Their sporadic cross-border attacks can only be stopped effectively with a crushing military response and all the death and destruction that comes with it

            • Saleh@feddit.org
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              The last time “bombing to peace” worked was in WW2, when the US killed 200.000 Japanese civillians with two nukes. The threat was clear. Surrender or face total annihilation.

              There is a term for that. It is called genocide. But in the case of Israel they would first need to genocide all of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Jordan. So some 50-60 Million people. Then all the other Muslims will feel threatened and fight back, like the West and UDSSR did against Nazis Germany. So in the second round, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Yemen and Oman will have to be genocided to achieve “peace”. That is some 200 million people. But then the rest of the world, except for Israels enablers in the US, Germany, UK and other few allies will feel threatened. So then the genocide needs to kill some 7 billion people.

              That is the logic of the escalator “seeking peace” through killing everyone opposing him. When the US fought Japan, it was also liberating the countries around it. When Israel is fighting everyone around it, it is always clear that it will step it up to attack the next country and the next after that.

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                The nuclear bombing of Japan didn’t need to happen. They were already willing to surrender even before that.

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                If you don’t know of any conflict being ended with violence after WW2, you might want to sign up to some history podcast or something

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          Let me explain how we can prove you’re 100% full of bullshit.

          If this had anything to do with security, bibi would resign, hand over reins to someone who didn’t fuck up and let the hostages be taken in the first place, and Israel could come up with plans slightly more nuanced and thought through than ‘Wauuugghh!!!’

          He’s desperate to keep power because hes Bibi, he’d use Iran getting nukes under his watch as an excuse for why he had to keep power, every failure from incompetence is just another argument for why he can’t possibly be replaced.

          You have a dictator, and it would be hilarious if it weren’t so tragic.

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            Your post makes me wonder which country you’re from, and how you’re so sure your neighbours can’t barge in with a few thousand soldiers and capture 250 hostages

            If you’re suggesting that pre-Al Aqsa Flood-Bibi was too weak on Gaza, then well… Yeah

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              America, we had a similar surprise once.

              Our reaction did not give us the assurance we desired.

              Bibi is a corrupt tool, he incited the assassination of Rabin and he’s basically a far smarter Trump.

              Israel is doomed because of him, because for such an ideologue security is fuel and he won’t let you stop until greater Israel or it’s complete destruction, there is no middle ground.

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                Yeah, funny how out of all countries the US didn’t go: “look, I get that you want revenge, but what we did after 9/11 wasn’t productive in the least, so we’re telling you to reconsider.”

                The US spent 20 years in Afghanistan, killed millions, traumatised/gave cancer to entire generations of their own soldiers and had nothing to show for it.

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                  You couldn’t be more wrong

                  But I caution this: While you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it.

                  After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. And while we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.

                  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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                    We gave billions to the very country that supported the taliban and hid bin ladin for a decade.

                    And we destroyed the middle east, causing the refugee crisis that is hitting the world and causing trouble.

                    Not to mention we burned trillions.

                    We were epic moroms, manipulated by assholes like Pakistan and Israel when all we should have done was what Obama did, put a few rounds in bin ladin and thrown him off the ship.

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                They have nukes. During the cold war the nuclear option was the thing that terrified everyone. Israeli right now is a full blown Rogue state that abso-fucking-lutely will go nuclear if the US pulls support. Forget about the communist-capitalist thing, it’s about some crazed colonialist who believe they should have everything or no one has anything.

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                  They won’t.

                  They will go nuclear if they get in a desperate position, basically worse than the Yom Kippur War, but short of that they’re not going to bother, and they won’t get in that position, they’re too powerful and most of the middle east is still on fire.

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                    If they got away with all this, they might also believe they can get away with a nuke. If they do they will cite the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings as justifications, saying that the Japanese didn’t surrender to massive firebombing the same way Arabs didn’t surrender to massive bombardment, and thus for both cases nukes are needed.

                    This is, of course, monstrous and wrong.

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                The Land of America you say

                Do you think your leader is strong enough to prevent a few thousand Canadians from rushing the border for a few hours?

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                  No, which is why it’s a good thing we aren’t occupying Toronto.

                  Ironically we did invade and occupy Canada once because we thought we could take their land.

                  It went very poorly for us, but unlike Israel we learned a lesson. Then again, we are capable of learning, but then again our politics weren’t completely founded on our most backwardly hyperreligious messianic nightmare psychos back then.

                  Your zealots are a cancer on your polity, just like ours are. Palestinians didn’t butcher Rabin.

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                    Well, you’re going pretty off-topic from your original statement that Bibi should have been replaced with someone that could have prevented the hostage-takings.

                    Also, you might want to read up on what happened to the natives that lived where you live now.

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          The only hostage that in Yahoo netanyahu is trying to prevent, is him in some kind of jail cell.