• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      BBC: “celebratory gunfire” in Beiruit.

      What a fucked up part of the world.

      Edit: the celebratory part isn’t fucked up. The doing it by shooting guns in the air is.

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        I mean I get where you’re coming from but you can’t honestly expect the people of Lebanon to be sympathetic to the Israeli’s given the events of the past 2 weeks.

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          Hezbollah have had this coming, they fired rockets at Israel on October 8th. So not because of what Israel was doing to the Palestinians, but in support of what Hamas did on October 7th.

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            You understand October 7 was hamas response to Israeli settlers continually invading and stealing Gaza land, right?

            This did not “begin” October 7th.
            Israeli settler terrorists are just as bad as hezbollah.

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            The moment the first news dropped on October 7 it was clear Israel was to retaliate with a bloodbath and they started bombing Gaza the same evening. If Hezbollahs goal at the time was to make use of the situation, they would have went for an all out attack while IDF was in disarray.

            The goal was to increase the pressure on Israel for reaching a cease-fire agreement through keeping their northern settlers out of their settlements, rendering the region economically inactive and the settlers angry at their government.

            It seems like no one anticipated this to go into a yearlong war. Initially Hamas seemed to have aimed to reach a ceasefire quickly through a hostage exchange deal, but Israel put genocide over having their hostages return alive.

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            Hezbollah has stated that they fired those rockets in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

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