Israel’s army chief says Israel has drawn up plans for additional action against Hezbollah and is ready to strike.
“We have many capabilities that we have not yet activated,” Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said after approving new operational plans at Israel’s Northern Command on Wednesday.
“Every time we work at a certain stage, the next two stages are ready to go forward strongly,” he says. “At each stage, the price for Hezbollah needs to be high.”
How is setting off little bombs amongst a civilian population not terrorism?
Because they are at war. And yes, it’s an official war. Hezbollah declared war well prior to this and has been firing rockets into Israel. Hence, this is a retaliatory attack by Israel. It’s no different than bombing or firing missiles, it’s just far more targeted at Hezbollah members since it’s their electronics. Unfortunately innocent civilian casualties are always a part of war, but this type of attack actually minimizes them far more than just straight bombing would.
The US State Department designated Hezballah as a foreign terrorist organization in October 1997. More than 60 other countries and organizations, including the EU, the Arab League, and the Gulf Cooperation Council, have also designated Hizballah—either in part or in its entirety—as a terrorist group.
There is an old saying that a terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but not an airforce to drop it.
What a load of ghoulish warmongering. Oh it’s war? If Hezbollah had done this to Israelis, the world would be crying blood and vowing for Israel’s right to defend itself.
It is war. And what Israel did was smart tactically. Also, collateral damage is part of every war. Even more so when the enemy entrenches itself among civilians.
Strange how this talk of “collateral” damage only applies to when Israelis kill civilians and not when, say, Hamas or Hezbollah do it.
Using your own despicable and dehumanizing approach, October the 7th merely had 797 “collateral victims” for the 379 legitimate Israeli security forces targets. And after all, the 2:1 civilian to military casualties ratio is basically the same as the IDF’s own record in Gaza.
Ah what to do, such is war…
No.
Fuck that barbaric way of devaluing the loss of human life.
So kill their families right?
Because the terrorist label is handed by the West.
Once it becomes a war, they’re no longer terrorists, just soldiers.
Then why do almost all Western countries consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization?
Any number of reasons.
And obviously it becomes a war only when we (the collective West) label it as such, otherwise it’s still just terrorists. They become soldiers only when it’s convenient for us.
It becomes a war when the other side returns fire.
It’s because it’s Israel, if you say they are terrorists, you’re antisemitic.
I guess I’m antisemitic now.
It is terrorism
