Israel launches ground offensive into southern Lebanon

"Is Lebanon part of Israel's promised territory?" — Jerusalem Post, 5 days ago

They've removed it since. Too mask-off to release in english I guess.

Wow this is batshit.
- That is religion. It is crazy to me that we live in this age with endless knowledge at our fingertips and people still believe all of this nonsense.
  
  We can look into the belief systems and religions of people from all over the world, and somehow the majority of us can’t look at our own systems and realize that it’s all bullshit.
  
  You can hear the teachers in rural India say, “The caste system is the will of God! How can you question the will of god?” A couple clicks later and you can hear a child Imam saying, “How can there be any god besides Allah?!” A few more clicks, you can hear a rabbi say, “We are the people chosen by god!” A couple more clicks and you hear the preacher say, “All other gods are false gods. Only our son of god is the one true god!” Hell, you can go down a rabbit hole of all the “gods” currently living with lucky followers of the one true living god right here, right now. Vissarion in Siberia gave those lucky bastards the Last Testament they’ll ever need to read. Imagine being lucky enough to shake your god’s hand and watch him prance around in white and burgundy robes and grow old before your eyes.
  
  There are so many one true gods out there. You’d think that alone would make people think and question their own one true god. Nope. Not only do the majority of us keep putting our hands together and saying amen, we got folks out here making brand new gods today for future people to fight and die for.
  
  It’s amazing.
Rabbi Shay Tahan, the Rosh Kollel of Shaarei Ezra in Brooklyn, NY, graciously opens the gates to understand them.

White dude from Brooklyn: "God promised me Lebanon"
They believed this from day 1 I might add.
War and Conquest: The concept of milchemet mitzvah (a commanded war) includes conquering certain territories that were promised in the Torah. If new land is identified as part of the biblical borders, there may be halachic discussions about the obligation to conquer and settle it.

As we all know, religious texts are static and unchanging. Until one is "unearthed" that declares all of India "ancient Israel".

What the fuck you doing, Israel?

These kinda of things are why the US supports Israel. It helps destabilize the neighbors that don't fall in line with US interests. The US fears a sovereign Middle East where they get to choose what to do with their own countries and resources, not just for the usual Imperialist reasons, but because of the importance of the petrodollar system.
- That's too 5-d chess for "the US" to pull off. I find it more plausible that the US supports Israel because Israel has a lot of powerful supporters in the US who manipulate public opinion and government policy.
- Underrated analysis
Whatever the fuck they want. Both American parties are pro-genocide, and their voters are either too stupid or too scared to demand otherwise. Its relevant because Israel could be doing absolutely none of this without US backing. US voters had (and somewhat still have) an opportunity to demand from their candidates but as I said, either too stupid or too scared to demand it.

Now Israel has carte blanc.
- Support for Israel is "off the table" in American politics. It's something that won't even be offered to voters as a choice. I remember when globalization was like this. Between Ross Perot and Donald Trump you had zero candidates on either side who were anti-globalization.
- Things I agree with:
  
  fuck Israel
  
  Things I disagree with:
  
  Israel has amassed such an arsenal, it can continue this shit on it's own for a good while. An arms embargo would still be appropriate though
  
  Voters are demanding a cease fire and have been for a long time. No one is scared. A lot of people have enough national problems to worry about, that they put first
  
  it's carte blanche, carte is feminine
exactly what the us allows them to do. I can only guess that kind old uncle sam has been feeding its billions in war change to israel for reasons more compelling than mere genocide (but that would suffice for some). a middle east ground "incursion" may be it.

because nothing could possibly go wrong with this. nothing at all.

I've read The Guardian article about the situation, and what stuck out to me was this:

The US president, Joe Biden, said he was aware of Israel’s plans to launch an operation into Lebanon as he urged against such a move. “I’m more aware than you might know and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” he told reporters at the White House. “We should have a ceasefire now.”

Thank you Biden, just wag your finger and keep feeling "comfortable with them stopping", that is ought to give you some moral victory points which is all that matters (and not thousands of civilians being killed by Israel that's funded by US).

Imagine being either more bloodthirsty or more incompetent (or both) that Reagan.
- 😭
Why do you think it is that he's limiting to ginger wagging?

What do you think would happen if he stops giving them weapons and a blanket kill whatever you want okay?

This will lead to WW3. Plus the blow back will be endless. You can't murder tens of thousands of people, and displace and starve millions with out creating terrorists.

They think that hezbollah and hamas and all the attacks on Israel by both are 100% unprovoked and brought on by some inbred hatred for jews. Hell, I was accused of being a bigot simply for being Lebanese and it was somehow taught to me as a child that I must hate Israel because of where I was born.

Nothing could be farther than the truth. I hate Israel and zionism the same way I fucking hate the nazis. It is because of what they believe, what they did, and what they are doing now, and what they plan on doing.
- And whatever blindfolded bigotry is in these areas they are justifying with their actions. Do they think someone who just had their lives, friends and family blown up or stolen by Israel is going to think rationally? I'd tell you what I'd do in the Palestinians shoes but it'll probably get me on a FBI watch list.
A person born with hatred out of those conditions is not a terrorist. They have every right to feel the way to do.

Typical westerners, acknowledging their plight and still blaming the victims.
- That's not the message or point I was making. I'm not blaming the victims. Just read my other replies.
- That's a weird take. Why do you think anyone becomes a terrorist? It's usually not because they had a normal upbringing.
Not will be. Is. The blowback from last time was, among other things, Hezbollah.
- There are countless fake Lebanese who claim that this invasion is justified and it is 100% hezbollah fault (yeah right) while not realizing that this shit could lead to something far worse.

So it's actually happening...

I am so so so expecting a nuclear exchange in or around the middle east witin 12 months - possibly after a "dirty nuke" attempt somewhere.

I am clutching at straws to even excuse this out of my top 3 worst case black swans.

only positive news is that nuclear winter will sure fix up that global warming thing real good.
- I should invest in a radsuit.

Israel is being run by a bunch of racist antisemitic ghouls

99% of genocidal fascist settler states give up right before winning a 4 front war, FACT

Isn't it only two fronts? I don't think there's much fighting going on in the West Bank, only one-sided slaughter.
- Isn’t it only two fronts?
- they're also being bombed by Yemen, and iirc there's a buildup of troops and equipment on the Syrian border in the Golan Heights region
This isn't a war, it's a slaughter.

Where will "I'll attack them coz they attacked me coz I attacked them coz they attacked me..." finally lead to? Anything can be justified based on when you start looking at the history, and each new attack only fuels the next.

Go look at the northern ireland troubles. There are other similar situations in history but that's a good example. Essentially you have to get people talking until they agree to peace. Violence of any type just fuels more conflict.

I suspect Israel just wants to wipe out its enemies. That can't be done so they will have to stop one way or another.
- Hmm. Would look for some documentaries on the same then.

This was always going to happen after the pagers exploded. Netanyahu is finalizing his legacy before he loses the next election. He’s taking out all of Israel’s enemies’ ability to wage war.

Netanyahu is ensuring October 10 doesn’t happen again in the foreseeable future and also expanding land grabs at a rapid pace. He doesn’t give a single fuck about civilian death tolls to achieve his goals.

...and this ensures it will happen again. with greater magnitude. the machine needs more meat.
- This is pleasing to the USA because the machine needs more money too.
Do you know what blow back is? You don't just kill tens of thousands of innocent people, and displace/starve millions of people without creating more terrorists. Isreal told us what Hamas and Hezbollah wanted in negotiations. Stop the occupation, embargo, and settlements in Gaza and the west bank and return all land stolen in those areas. Isreal said no. Does that sound responsible for Isreal? No because they don't want peace. They want the land and will kill everyone currently living on it. Top officials in the Israeli government has publicly said that's what they want, but we're still having this fucking discussion?! Nah fam, this is full on genicide. Do you honestly think the middle east will be more peaceful if Israel gets everything they want? Buckle up buckaroo, next stop WW3.
The recent military attacks on the people of Lebanon have increased Netanyahu's popularity. When people talk about Netanyahu being unpopular, they often forget that this is because his government isn't sufficiently meeting demands for blood and retribution and making the Israeli Ubermenschen feel like they are perfectly safe and dominant at all times. Attacks on Lebanon checks all 3 boxes, at least in their minds.
- I did not realize that Netanyahu was gaining in popularity, but it’s true
- IIRC, there were members of his administration who resigned due to how slowly he was genociding the Gazans.
You think he's going to give up power?