Send me bad puns. Good puns welcome too.
Do… do you know why Hezbollah was even founded? For a hint, here’s a literal former Israeli PM on the topic:
In 2006, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak stated, “When we entered Lebanon … there was no Hezbollah. We were accepted with perfumed rice and flowers by the Shia in the south. It was our presence there that created Hezbollah.”
Hamas, in one form or another, has been attacking Isreal for many decades.
One doesn’t become a victim due to being attacked; it takes being unjustly attacked to make one a victim. This makes certain individual Israeli civilians victims, but not Israel as a whole.
Just like the people of Gaza could have voted for a government that strived for a peaceful solution, but chose a violent one
With all due respect, this is the most historically illiterate thing I’ve read today. The only reason Hamas even exists is the complete and utter failure of peaceful solutions. And of course they failed; what, did you also expect the Irish or Algerians to strive for peaceful solutions? Rejecting peaceful solutions has been Israeli policy for longer than Israel existed. Hell, the current state of the West Bank should tell you all you need to know about what “striving for peaceful solutions” looks like,.
TF do you mean “apologist?” Hamas being a (and, in fact, by far the biggest) Palestinian armed resistance organization and the fact they do a lot of evil shit are two facts that can be true at the same time. That doesn’t mean supporting Hamas is victimizing Israel.
Iran has been arming resistance to Israeli colonialism for decades, but that does not in any way make Israel a victim. Palestinians and Lebanese have the right to defend themselves, and Iran has the right (and, like the rest of the world, moral duty) to help them defend themselves.
Victims in what way? They’re only taking an infinitesimally fraction of what they’re dishing out. A serial killing getting scratched every now and then isn’t my idea of victimhood.
No but they seem to overwhelmingly support their military’s actions. (Likely erroneously) assuming a uniform distribution, out of these 115 about 107 or so are in fact FAFOing.
I wish it happened another way (say, by the missile hitting its intended target), but in general it’s a good thing for Israelis to know they’re not invincible.
fuck the people in it.
Now that’s going too far. There are decent Jewish Israelis (though they’re an overwhelming minority), and of course 1948 Arabs have nothing to do with this.
Uh that’s clearly a metaphor, the intended meaning being that the current generation of global elites has no reason to fear the masses because the masses haven’t done enough to make fearing them necessary. “All the world’s ills stem from lack of corporal punishment” is outrageous enough that you should consider the possibility that you misunderstood.
Who said anything about 6 years olds? We’re talking about physically abusing 60-year old warmongering gerontocrats.
The only way to teach any generation in power is spanking; the only difference between this generation and previous ones is that previous ones still remembered the last round of spanking.
Sir this is a Wendy’s. Even if everything you said was true (it’s not), it has literally nothing to do with what I said. The vast majority of the DNC supports imperialism whether you like it or not.
Remember the Houthi blockade? It’s not that simple.
Then it would actually make some Republicans non maga, start to move away from maga
Maybe but that would do little to actually prevent the US from doing evil shit, because US imperialism is bipartisan.
The nationality of the ships isn’t important.
It is; Iranian, Indian and Chinese shipping, among others, is being allowed through the straits. Also you’re right, but as long as America gets to just bomb them at any moment their existence is at risk, so they’ll want some kind of guarantee this won’t happen again.
which has been tacitly mostly kept off the table for, what, centuries?
It’s only kept off the table between peer or near-peer states. Global North countries often do it in the Global South where they don’t have to fear strong retaliation.
Assassinating world leaders has always been normal if you’re doing it for Western capital.
Anand stressed Canada’s lack of enthusiasm for the US-Israeli assault, but at the same time described Iran’s response as reprehensible and a breach of international law.
The US bombs Iran into the stone age and it’s Iran getting criticized for breaking international law. Fucking vassal state. Also can you tell us what those “off ramps” are going to look like? Because “Uncle Sam stops this round of illegal bombings but you stay a pariah state so you can be bombed again next year” isn’t going to cut it.
If you want to debate foreign policy
The fuck you want me to debate? There’s no room for debating the morality of US foreign policy (which is 99% evil), which should be clear to anyone not willfully ignorant. Therefore, there’s only one non-scum course of action to take, and that is to get the hell out. Their ongoing cooperation with the US war machine makes them scum.
But “othering” and dehumanizing an entire group of people isn’t a serious argument.
I never dehumanized US soldiers; I simply called them scum, for the same reason most people would agree WWII Wehrmacht soldiers were scum.
the people you’ve never met, yet seemingly hate so much.
Do I need to have met Hitler to hate him? What about Netanyahu? Maybe Putin is actually a good person under all the death and destruction?
Your attempt to whitewash the Israeli invasion of Lebanon (brutal enough that even Reagan told them to dial it down) was not missed.
Are Israel’s near-daily ceasefire violations and its occupation of Lebanese territory reason enough?