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this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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"Israel isn’t massacring people in Lebanon because Hezbollah is attacking Israel; it’s massacring them so that it can go on massacring Palestinians."
Yes.
However, anyone targeting civilians is a villain, and requires no demonizing beyond what they're already doing themselves. The US government, Russia, Israel, Hezbollah... there's never any excuse to target civilians, full stop.
Hezbollah is targeting military bases and soldiers. Even a casual knowledge of the death toll on both sides confirm it.
That said, I argue that the concept of a civilian settler is contradictory. Settler colonialism itself is an act of war. Israelis never attempted to coexist with Palestinians or Lebanese, and they have plans to colonize Lebanon too.
Zionist founders never denied who they are or what they want:
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