There was no hint of de-escalation as Israeli warplanes bombed a residential area of Beirut on Friday, killing at least 31 people, including multiple Hezbollah commanders, and wounding at least dozens of others. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said that the dead include three women and seven children.

During a Saturday television interview, Israeli Minister of Education Yoav Kisch falsely proclaimed that “there is no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon.”

“The way things are progressing at the moment, Lebanon will be annihilated,” he vowed. Pressed on the genocidal implications of the word “annihilated,” Kisch said, “Lebanon as we know it will not exist.”

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
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    43 months ago

    I mean yeah that was a time when American presidents had more balls. Now we have Trump and Joe Zionist Biden.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      Support for Israel is their choice and interest. They aren’t being held by the balls like you make it sound.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        23 months ago

        Past presidents supported Israel while making it clear (sew Reagan’s phone call) that they won’t allow nonsense like what Israel is doing right now.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          But they literally did. What Israel is doing is not new. The only thing new is media coverage.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness
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            23 months ago

            What Israel is doing is not new.

            It is. The scale of violence in Gaza right now is unprecedented in the region, surpassing even the Nakba and the two invasions of Lebanon, specifically because past US presidents had (definitely too loose, but not nonexistent) reigns on Israel.