Benjamin Netanyahu's appeal came as Israel expanded its ground invasion against Hezbollah.

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/590118

During a video address directed at the people of Lebanon, Netanyahu said: "You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.

  • nonailsleft@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    16 hours ago

    They’re fighting Arab-islamic nationalists who won’t ever give up their fight over Palestine.

    Morocco crushed the resistance in Western Sahara and took their territory. Now there’s peace.

    Azerbaijan crushed the resistance in Nagorno-Kharabach and took their territory. Now there’s peace.

    It’s not pretty, but sometimes it’s ‘better’ overall than letting an armed conflict drag on for eternity.

    edit: Also:

    An opinion poll published in mid-September by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR), a think tank based in Ramallah and funded by Western donors, showed for the first time the majority of Gazans opposed the decision to attack. The poll, conducted in early September, found that 57% of people surveyed in the Gaza Strip said the decision to launch the offensive was incorrect, while just 39% said it was correct – down sharply from the previous poll in June.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      32·
      14 hours ago

      So in addition to advocating for genocide in Gaza, you’re going to advocate for ethnic cleansing of Armenians and the people of Western Sahara?

      • nonailsleft@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        12 hours ago

        I’m not advocating for any of those, but I understand you want to make it appear as such

        I’m saying that the most peaceful solution is for Hezbollah (and Hamas) to accept their loss and stop trying to ethnically cleanse the jews out of Palestine. Their sporadic cross-border attacks can only be stopped effectively with a crushing military response and all the death and destruction that comes with it

        • dukepontus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          Israel would have to occupy Tehran to stop the funding & arming of the terrorism that it is fighting. Do they roll their tanks through irak and syria to get there? And doesnt Iran have nukes by now?

          The only option for peace is a two state solution. All the sides have to start talking and stop fighting. And that starts with Israel.

          • nonailsleft@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            4 hours ago

            First, why would it have to start with Israel and not both sides? Don’t forget that Hamas tried to tank the Oslo accords with a series of suicide attacks in the mid-90’s.

            And why wouldn’t a one state solution be an option for peace, given time? A lot of Arab nations were already moving towards normalisation with Israel. Which is why Hamas and Hezbollah need to stoke the fire every once in a while.

            I’m reading interviews with Hamas militants who want their children to continue their fight to return to the village that their own grandparents were chased out of (within the 1948 jewish-allocated borders no less). As in: return to the village that these kids’ great-grandparents had lived in. And failing that, probably go on to move back to the villages of their great-great-greatparents?

            At a certain point there’s limitations on the links between generations and whether they want to spend their lives trying to right the wrongs done to their ancestors that they didn’t even know themselves, or to go on with their lives in the present. There aren’t, for example, that many African-American slave descendants still trying to reclaim their ancestors’ tribes’ lands in Africa, or native Americans (north and south) trying to push all the immigrants since the late 1400s back into the sea. History and humanity move on.