No more business as usual," the organization leading the protest said on social media.

No more business as usual," the organization leading the protest said on social media.

Dozens of Jewish protesters and their allies were arrested on Wednesday morning after they blocked rush hour traffic on a busy Los Angeles highway to demand a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
    55·
    7 months ago

    After the bombings? That would have been done by primarily US troops, so of course he could stop it with a phone call.

      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
        23·
        7 months ago

        I thought you might be referring to the 1983 attacks.

        I was a little underdeveloped at that age to be aware of everything going on.

        Doesn’t look like he stopped anything though, given that fighting continued despite the ceasefire for a few more years, and that Israel still attacks Lebanon on a regular basis because of Hezbollah.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
          42·
          7 months ago

          He didn’t stop the conflict as a whole, but he stopped the bombing of west Beirut itself.

          That bombing was followed by a protest to the Israeli government by President Ronald Reagan. Within 20 minutes of a phone call between Reagan and Begin, in which the former said the bombings were going too far and needed to stop, Begin ordered the bombings stopped.