Israel Destroys Hezbollah Residential Stockpiles

In the past few years, Hezbollah made a deal with a bunch of Lebanon residents. "Let us stockpile weapons in your home, and we'll pay you $$$$ cash rent." Israel was quietly noting where all these stockpiles were, but did nothing.

Today, Israel blew up most of these weapons stockpiles. A lot of haters are now saying "Evil Israel is blowing up residential neighborhoods in Lebanon." In some of the videos, you can see secondary explosions which are an indication there actually were munitions there.

It's also a silly argument. If Lebanon is at war with Israel, it's fair game for Israel to blow stuff up in Lebanon, whether there's a weapons stockpile there or not. If Lebanon doesn't want their stuff blown up, they shouldn't have started a war.

Even though Israel seems to be trying to minimize non-Hezbollah casualties, they really shouldn't be under any obligation to do that. By minimizing civilian casualties, that just reduces the cost to the rest of the population for harboring Hezbollah. Why not let Hezbollah operate in your country if Israel is going to great lengths to not hurt anyone who's not part of Hezbollah?

If the Lebanon residents made a deal with Hezbollah to stash their weapons in their homes they have only themselves to blame if they get blown up. They're supporting the terrorists.

I think its good that Israel is trying to minimize non-Hezbollah civilian casualties. They have a more surgical approach to fighting and Lebanon should be thankful for that. It still isn't good to have all the chaos in that country, but Lebanon's government is probably Iran friendly.

I still think the modern theory of war is incorrect. "Only kill combatants" is a losing strategy. Even in the most militarized society, at most 1%-2% of the population will be active soldiers. By killing the soldiers but sparing everyone else, you're lowering the cost to that country for supporting war.

Lebanon's government of course wants peace with Israel. It's just that pesky Hezbollah that Lebanon's government is powerless to stop and actively encourages.

It lets a country get away with war and peace at the same time. They can go to war, knowing their civilian population is protected anyway. As long as you preserve your women and children, you can replace the dead soldiers in the next generation in 10-20 years.

The only way to fight a war and win is to murder everyone. That's what Muslims do when they take over a country. That's what Communists do when they take over a country. Muslims and Communists know how to win wars. The failure of Western countries to do this is why they can never win wars, only get stalemates where the enemy restarts hostilities every 10-20 years.

Too bad if the US got into a war with a big country and the other country took the views expressed in this thread. Please stop and think.

The colonial mindset is "terrorize the natives and they will fall before you." In reality no war has a 100% kill rate of an enemy. What Israel is doing is creating scores of enemies out of everyone who loses someone.

And just suppose Israel does succeed in wiping out Hezbollah in Lebanon down to the last fighter? There's still Iran.

I'm with you, ,ndo. Israel has gone mad and the US props up the warmaking. It's not a lot different in many ways from our campaign on Russia.

It's not just Israel and the US, it's Australia too, and the rest of the West. Lots of countries propping up lots of warmaking.

Murdering everyone in a country isn't a good strategy. It makes them worse than the people they're fighting against. I think Israel has the right approach. Lebanon needs to decide who they stand with. Is it Israel or Iran? They can't have both. What makes more sense for them is to have peace with Israel and not allow Hezbollah to operate in their country.

There is no winning this war for them if they don't address Iran. It has plenty of money to fund these terrorist groups thanks to Biden unfreezing $6B in oil funds. The US should refreeze any funds to Iran so they can't continue fueling the war. Biden is on both sides of the issue just like Lebanon, when he should be curtailing Iran's behavior with sanctions.

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Israel Destroys Hezbollah Residential Stockpiles

You people are genocidal maniacs, fair dinkum

It's not even reasonable

It's not even reasonable

Israel Destroys Hezbollah Residential Stockpiles