The Israeli military says its Northern Command has approved operational plans for war with Lebanon.

Israel is ready for an “all-out war” in Lebanon and has plans approved for an offensive targeting Hezbollah, officials have said.

Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in border fighting since shortly after the start of the war on Gaza, following the October 7 attacks on Israel. The confrontation is increasingly expanding, with both sides saying they are ready to go to war.

More than 400 people have been killed in Lebanon, including journalists and paramedics, over the past eight months, with 25 deaths in Israel. At least 90,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon, and more than 60,000 have been forced from their homes in northern Israel.

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      If someone could just figure out a way to point them at Russia, rather than picking fights with everyone else.

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        Well, russia be shipping muslims to Belarus like there is no tomorrow. Maybe tell Benny there is a lot of muslims in Belarus and they are coming from russia?

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            That’s literally Russia’s military strategy: conscript minorities and throw them as human waves into the meatgrinder in order to ethnically cleanse Russia while genociding Ukraine

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            I meant like russia is Gaza 2.0 and Kadyrov is literally Hamas. Maybe they will fuck off from Palestine.

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              Kadyrov is literally Hamas

              Because he’s Chechyan presiding over a Chechnyan government? I’d think he was more comparable to MBS or Abdullah II, whom Israelis are openly courting.

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        From the people they’re colonizing. That doesn’t count as defending themselves. I can’t say self-defense when I kill you after you try to punch me because I shot you multiple times.

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        The down votes are from the Jews who get offended easily and are first to say you are antisemitic. Sometimes a “/s” is not enough.

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    next up, invade random countries… don’t mind me I’m just going through Hitler’s to-do list.

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        These propaganda memes are getting more and more bizarre. This is the “Promised Land” meme that from I can tell originated from a faked photo of a patch on an Israeli soldier a few weeks ago.

        Israel simply doesn’t have the capability to take that amount of territory, much less hold it. And see that blue on the Sinai peninsula? Israel actually controlled that in the past. They returned it to Egypt when they made peace in the 70s.

        This is the silliest anti-Israel meme yet. Try harder next time.

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      The Nazi ideology is alive and rules in Tel Aviv. They just changed who the supreme race is.

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        Yeah, while Israel has been invading and violating Lebanon’s airspace for much longer than they’ve been shooting rockets.

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          So not really “invading random countries” like the person I responded to said, right? They’ve been fighting

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            Yeah Israel should have been sanctioned a long time ago for their airspace invasions. If they proceed with a land invasion, they should be embargoed by the world.

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              By your logic though, Taiwan should be launching rockets into China because China regularly violates their airspace. It’s just not how normal countries interact with each other man, these people are psychos. Both sides

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                I just said Israel should be sanctioned. I haven’t made one comment on whether the rockets were good or bad.

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                  I asked hasn’t Lebanon been firing rockets at Israel for a while - you said Israel invades their airspace (implying that firing rockets into Israel was justified)

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        You can’t really think of Lebanon as a country at this time. It’s a territory where several groups hold various amounts of power. Hzbollah is one of those groups. The “government”, or what passes for it is another.

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          Palestine isn’t a country. Lebanon isn’t a country. Excited to see Syria, Egypt, and Jordan suffer the same fate.

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            Palestine isn’t a country. It was offered statehood and turned it down. Lebanon is very much a country.

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              Palestine isn’t a country.

              More countries recognize Palestine as an independent state than Taiwan.

              It was offered statehood and turned it down.

              It wasn’t offered statehood. It was offered a shell of bureaucracy under the boot of an occupying Israeli military.

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                Under the boot of an occupying Israeli military. You mean the one who had to build the iron dome becusse Arab states want/wanted to bomb it back to the stoneage?

                Good for these countries recognizing it’s statehood, doesn’t make it true.

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      A two front war is never a good idea

      Not too sure tho, how bombing and starving civilians including children on a strip of land for 8-9 months qualifies as war, now that I think about it.

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        They should never have done it in the first place, but seeing how it takes them so long to kill mostly unarmed civilians doesn’t exactly qualify them to attack another region, but whatever gets bibi to play the victim and the strong man at the same time and keeps his right wing friends happy, i guess.

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      No, now they’re going to actually go to war instead of bombing defenseless children. The other front would be Egypt if Sisi hadn’t sold his soul to Uncle Sam.

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    Can we please stop giving this insane bloodthirsty man and his sidekicks weapons and intelligence support?

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq_coalition

    If the US joins Israel, that pulls in Russia, Iran, Syria, Iraq, and since Russia and NK just did their deal. Likely NK as well.

    AIPAC has bought off enough of both sides of the aisle, that our politicians will say we join.

    This ain’t the same WW3 shit we’ve been hearing about since the 50s. This shit can pop off at any moment.

    Israel isn’t acting rationally and Biden has repeatedly said he will support them under any possible circumstances. So what the fuck is going to happen?

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      US has been trying to prevent an Israeli-Hezbollah war. Even al Jazeera says this in the third sentence in the linked article.

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        nonsense. Israel does everything with American weapons. US wants more war, otherwise they would not be giving Israel so many weapons.

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        I’m sure al Jazeera would have said the US has been trying to prevent an Israeli-Palestine war before the conflict happened. We can see what happened with that.

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          That would imply that al Jazeera knew October 7 was going to happen in advance. Is that what you’re saying? Or is October 7 such an inconvenience to the narrative you want to believe you’ve got a complete mental block on it?

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            How on earth would what I said imply that Al Jazeera knew that October 7th was going to happen lol. There’s been threats of war between the two for decades.

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      Totally worth not having health care so we can support Israel starting wars around the Middle East.
      -_-

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    Israel: History repeats itself, it has been a quite 100 years, time for another of those great wars, World War, I think ot was called.

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      Israel is thinking they can start any war they want because the U.S. will make sure they win. Netanyahu has repeatedly shown that the U.S. will do whatever he demands.

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      Why should they stop? They have the full U.S. M.I.C. to back them in whatever bullshit they want to do. If they can commit genocide with U.S. backing, then of course they can start wars with neighbors too.

      We need to end our bizarre, expensive one-sided relationship with Israel. We get absolutely nothing out of it except headaches.

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    Right now it’s just some tough talk from both sides. It’s possible for this to amount to something more than the normal levels of exchanging fire that’s been going on since October 7, but it’s doubtful.

    Seems more likely Nasrallah just has to make some token effort to support Hamas to appease the rank and file. So he threatened Israel three days ago. Israel makes threats back now. Just another day in the Middle East.

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      Right now it’s just some tough talk from both sides

      How do you know that? The Zionist settler colonialist side has been doing Genocide for the past 8-9 months, this is not as you say

      Just another day in the Middle East.

      And like Hitler, Netanyahu is unable to stop. And unlike Hitler he is not fighting and loosing battles. When Hitler started loosing in the front, part of his entourage tried to talk him out of it, without success. This is why, there was even an attempt to kill him from inside the Nazi party.

      Netanyahu on the other hand, is not loosing battles since he is just bombing and starving people, while being supported in all possible ways by the US and most of the west. Why should he stop now? The Zionist plan of eliminating or displacing all Palestinians is working fine so far.

      Netanyahu is so pumped up he could easily invade Lebanon. Also Israel has attacked Lebanon twice and got defeated twice in a humiliating way. Last time was in 2006, meaning not that long ago. This is why Netanyahu has such a beef with Hezbollah. I’m afraid that Netanyahu has been given so much support and leverage from the West, he’s about to start an actual war with Lebanon.

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        Another day, another thing for you to rage over, right? Gotta maintain that outrage or you might think about how horrible Hamas is.

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      America has plans for all our war with Canada.

      maybe the White House burning down again would be a little humbling, who knows