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> Israel and Lebanon are not at war Hezbollah is not Lebanon. Lebanon is not Hezbollah. That said, Hezbollah and Israel have been in active bloody combat aga
by alephnerd 2y ago
> Israel and Lebanon are not at war
Hezbollah is not Lebanon.
Lebanon is not Hezbollah.
That said, Hezbollah and Israel have been in active bloody combat against each other since 1985.
- charbroiled 2y agoWell, there’s been a (tense) ceasefire for nearly the last 20 years, that was eventually broken on October 8 by Hezbollah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1701 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...
- alephnerd 2y ago> there’s been a (tense) ceasefire for nearly the last 20 years True, but much of that was spent by Hezbollah fighting in the Syrian Civil War on behalf of Assad (their historical benefactor in Israel). Now that the civil war is de facto over with Assad in control of most of the country except rump Turkish and de facto Israeli (Jabal al Deize) exclusion zones, Hezbollah returned to antagonizing Israel. The Israel-Hezbollah conflict was bound to happen even if 10/7 didn't happen.