I never said he was an unbiased source.

It is if the apartment complex is being used as a military outpost

https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...amas-hezbollah

International law very strongly disagrees with your assessment, but the world has long since stopped holding Israel accountable to any kind of moral standard.

Not it doesn’t. You can attack civilian buildings if you attempt to minimize civilian casualties and there is a military objective. Just look at the amnesty international article that Victor posted.

jfc just take a step back and listen to yourself.

To summarize: you can attack military targets in civilian or densely populated areas, but you have to minimize civilian casualties as much as possible.

Don’t take it from me, take it from amnesty international.

UNWRA was severely infected with terrorist ties. Israel is simply replacing them with a group that does not have ties to terrorism.

When an entire town is flattened, the IDF isn't going after Hezbollah. They are preparing permanent occupation, minus the Lebanese civilians.

A New York Times article documents that 1,085 buildings have been destroyed in Lebanon. Many of them were flattened by controlled demolitions -- meaning there was not a battle going on:

You can see in the videos when the village has an extensive tunnel network. You can also see when they don't and I have no idea why those are being leveled, but for the ones with the tunnels the reason is pretty clear.

It's because the IDF is inflicting as much human misery on Arabs as they can get away with.

It is, or may be, a war crime to locate military assets in civilian areas, which of course Hamas and Hezbollah always do in order to complicate things for the Israelis. In those circumstances, those areas may be liable to attack. As to whether the Israelis really seek to minimise civilian casualties... that's a bit doubtful.

Although there are probably a few exceptions, "rules of war" is basically an oxymoron. 90% of wars should never have been fought. And those that should have been (because there was no question which side was the evil one) should not handcuff the non evil side with rules. Especially rules designed to protect non combatants who are on the evil side and want the righteous ones dead. It would have been fine to torture sane, adult German, citizens who approved of the Holocaust, if that improved the chances the Allies would win. Same with Southern sane, adult citizens, who approved of slavery if that was the only way to increase the North's chances.

On the other hand, if it is not obvious which side is right, or if many children can be expected to die, then, if two countries would nevertheless go to war, the leaders of both countries should be sought out by the rest of the world and assassinated.

Normative moral "shoulds" have no role in geopolitics. Especially if the very few entities who could "police the world" toward that ethical outcome, aren't willing to.

The Israelis are trying to inflict misery on the Arabs while they are working toward rekindling the Abraham acccords with the Arabs? Does that make sense to you?

I'm sure there is a strategic purpose related to the war. I highly doubt they are doing this in preparation of occupation.

Well, it depends on how you define occupation. They are definitely creating a buffer zone so Lebanese/Hezbollah anti tank missiles (which Iron Dome cant protect against) cant be fired from Lebanon into Israel towns.

On October 8th when Lebanon/Hezbollah declared war on Israel and opened a second front in the North anti-tank missiles were fired, creating much danger for Israeli civilians, forcing their evacuation. Israel is doing what it can to assure Lebanon/Hezbollah cant do this again. There is also the risk of a October 7th style land invasion into Israel if Hezbollah can restage in towns near the border.

Given Hezbollah has shown their word is nothing, and they absolutely will threaten and attack Israel again if given the chance; the decision is very rationale.

Import and enable bigots without liberal values, and you become a nation of bigots without liberal values. Nice touch switching to a foreign language when it was time for gender slurs.

told you like a year ago that people would not look kindly on those symbols in public

Yes, and far right Israelis say the same thing. They are quite happy when Jews are hated.

in this case, I was speaking to the meta-point. as far as this video specifically, I dont think that guy was being hated on for being Jewish. I would guess that he went to that particular coffee shop hoping this would happen. and the whole video could be staged either way. Brianna Wu is not really a good follow.

lol I just actually watched the video. all I can say is lol.

Wow. Makes you think. What do you mean by “imported”?

In other news, after their Russian made air defense systems repelled the Israeli attack on October 29th, Iran announced they would follow up with a devastating attack on Israel proper; presumably to mop up what little is left of the Israeli Air Force.

In other other news, in meetings with US envoys Lebanese officials announced that as part of a (hopefully) upcoming ceasefire they would employ the Lebanese army to enforce Resolution 1701, and keep Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon. They also announced Lebanese air space would no longer be used by the IRI or its Arab proxies to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah.

I am skeptical Lebanese forces will be any more effective than UNIFIL ones, but we shall see.