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The BBC is weaponising its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel's crimes (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 1 month ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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The media chorus goes like this: Israel is attacking Lebanon to stop Hezbollah rocket fire and allow the residents of Israel’s most northerly communities to return home. Or in the blunter, Orwellian language of Israeli officials framing this horror show: Israel must "escalate to de-escalate".

Why? Because, says Israel, Hezbollah has hidden its cache of rockets in their homes. Those homes must therefore be destroyed. Strangely, Hezbollah seems to have forgotten that it has extensive rocky terrain across south Lebanon where it could more safely and wisely hide its arsenal.

Then, as now, the media subjected us to Israeli CGI-generated propaganda videos of underground "control and command centres" supposedly under hospitals and other vital infrastructure Israel wanted destroyed.

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't be surprised if Lebanon was hiding military supplies under civilian dwellings, to protect them with human shields. Even if it is, that doesn't give Israel the right to indiscriminately bomb them. They should send targeted ground teams that will destroy only the rockets and not kill any innocent civilians.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What would Israel's motivation be for lying about where the missiles are kept? They might be mistaken, they might be exaggerating, they might not value civilian lives, but I can't see them being the absolute monsters that would kill civilians just for the hell of it.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 month ago

I can't see them being the absolute monsters that would kill civilians just for the hell of it.

If you can't see this, you are not looking.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Hezbollah stores their munitions underground. They aren't morons.

But I can’t see them being the absolute monsters that would kill civilians just for the hell of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine