• aasatru@kbin.earth
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    9 hours ago

    I don’t think anyone is making the point that it’s literally the exact same thing.

    But what we’re witnessing is that Israel can bomb a civilian population to rubble for months and months, and all the intensional community can stutter out is that they “have a right to defend themselves”.

    Now they are bombing a foreign capital and sending in ground troops to their neighbouring country to fight off a militia that they themselves are responsible for creating by invading in the past, and we know exactly what the chorus will be. Right to defend themselves.

    We will see our Lebanese friends and their families murdered, all for Israel’s right to defend themselves.

    In Germany, the line was that they would stop at Poland. People make up different excuses for different atrocities.

    I think a lot of people are rightfully fucking tired of excuses, and that’s the point. Not that it’s literally the same thing.

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      4 hours ago

      Yes they are. Look at the post. They are quite literally (in the words true meaning) making that point.

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      5 hours ago

      Hezbolla is not Lebanon or its government. It’s not a declaration of war if the country (its official government) isn’t objecting to the entry

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        5 hours ago

        That’s an interesting take. I think you should ideally be invited before your military march into a foreign country and start bombing in order to claim it’s not an invasion. It’s not one of those things you can assume you have permission to do until the country you’re invading starts fighting back.

        Lebanon is not Hezbolla. But the bombs are falling in Lebanon, and it is Lebanese civilians that are being killed and displaced. They are invading Lebanon,.

        That Lebanon hardly has a government to speak of and is doing awfully already does not mean you can just rightfully bomb it. What the fuck.