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A mother peeling potatoes on her balcony during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Beirut, 1982
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this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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So I don't know if I missed it, but what's Israel's justification for attacking another sovereign country? And I saw they were talking about putting settlers there? Aren't they essentially doing what Russia is doing to Ukraine? Why isn't the UN coming down on them?
Hezbollah, a terrorist group in Lebanon, has been trading fire over the border with Israel for the past year. Israel claims that they're definitely only invading Lebanon because Lebanon isn't stopping Hezbollah (Lebanon, practically speaking, can't, because Hezbollah is better armed than the nation's actual military). In service to this very noble goal, Israel has been indiscriminately shelling residential areas, because as we all know, that's how to defeat terrorist organizations.
Rather predictably, the Israeli ultraright has already begun salivating over the prospect of having another bleeding ulcer like Palestine to genocide and colonize; while the Israel right pretends that the ultraright doesn't exist and they DEFINITELY aren't thinking the exact same thing. Realistically speaking, Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, started this shit to have another crisis to hang onto power with, as, absent the war(s), he's deeply unpopular.
The UN isn't coming down on them because the UN is powerless and slow. They just got around to 'expressing concern' for their own peacekeepers that are being fired upon in Lebanon.
What I don't get is why?
It's not a particularly dense region of resources, nor is it a particularly enjoyable climate. Like at least Iraq had some oil or something, otherwise you get a desert. Yay. Desert. What are we going to do with more desert?
There are certainly economic incentives and parts of the country are quite nice, but I think, at the end of the day, the core incentive for Netanyahu and his goons is just ethnic supremacism. "We must show these dirty foreigners who God has granted this land to"