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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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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Doing a Blitzkreg to win some Lebensraum and no I don't understand why this would be problematic.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The Südetenland is already waiting to be liberated and fulfill their genetic destiny!

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RealJoL@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

While this meme/picture is definitely exaggerated, the expansion of Israel far beyond its current borders is a political position held by members of the current government. It originates from early Zionist militias that aspired to capture these widespread borders.

It even caused an international incident some time ago. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-seeks-to-calm-waters-with-jordan-after-racist-extremist-speech-by-smotrich/

[–] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Doesn’t Lebanon shoot rockets at Israel? Like pretty frequently?

[–] febra@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] febra@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] febra@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] febra@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, by your own logic you can go one reply further and you'll realize that you were trying to justify a land invasion of Lebanon.

[–] librejoe@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Are people actually making excuses for Hezbollah?

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Are people actually making excuses for Israel?

[–] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are people actually making excuses for Israel?

[–] librejoe@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Are you serious? Hezbollah went in and gutted Lebanon of anything not of their version of "islamic" and think they are going to get sympathy. Why do you think so many people left Lebanon during the civil war (if you can even call it that)?

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Israel is worse. Israel is the Jewish Isis.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

and Israel did even worse. Your point?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] librejoe@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

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.