3 ms·

I've been following this very closely from the start. Hezbollah was targeting radio towers and IDF personnel. Hezbollah denied that it was their rocket that hit

I've been following this very closely from the start. Hezbollah was targeting radio towers and IDF personnel. Hezbollah denied that it was their rocket that hit the Druze and they certainly didn't have any other attacks that matched that type of target. Again, it's well documented that Israel has caused orders of magnitude more civilian damage and casualties than Hezbollah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hezbollah_conflict_(2023%E2%80%93present)#Casualties_and_damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hezbollah_confl... > On 4 December 2024, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported that since 7 October 2023, Israeli attacks killed 4,047 people, including 316 children and 790 women, and injured 16,638 others

tptacek 10mo ago
You haven't responded to any claim I've made other than to advance a claim that Hezbollah, which fired tens of thousands of mostly unguided rockets into Israel, did not in fact kill 12 Druze children in the Golan Heights. Our premises may be too far apart to usefully discuss this. The core of my argument (the comparative military and civilian body counts in Syria and Yemen) aren't going to be easy to refute by appeals to Hezbollah's PR. (You may also have responded to a by-2-minutes-or-so earlier version of my comment; we may be responding to each other in too-close succession and talking past each other.)
- sporkxrocket 10mo ago
  Unguided doesn't mean unaimed. Here's an example (of many) of the types of attacks Hezbollah had been executing: https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1710938611858780314 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1710938611858780314 Edit: I'm now throttled from posting but I was able to go back and find more video of Hezbollah's attacks on Israel military facilities. I think people should watch these and judge for themselves: * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1752035071047926029 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1752035071047926029 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1790471234867568905 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1790471234867568905 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1756031325264318682 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1756031325264318682 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1743565825771032895 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1743565825771032895 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1810011590118305895 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1810011590118305895 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1791216213785268522 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1791216213785268522
  - tptacek 10mo ago
    You don't want to miss a step holding Israel to account. I'm not interested in pushing back on you about that. But to accomplish that, you're defending Hezbollah. Hezbollah is indefensible. If you want to keep hashing out why, I'm willing to keep talking about it, but I suspect this isn't a productive conversation.
    - inemesitaffia 10mo ago
      You all will figure out it's all about the Jews eventually. There's a reason why there are still crypto Jews in Iberia. All you have to do is listen to actual Arab discourse from people in the area (or Arab protesters in Arabic in the West). Where they insist repeatedly that's it's about the Jews. All the talk about White Supremacy (Guess who calls black people Abeed?), Settler colonialism, genocide etc are just earworms for Western ears

tptacek 10mo ago

You haven't responded to any claim I've made other than to advance a claim that Hezbollah, which fired tens of thousands of mostly unguided rockets into Israel, did not in fact kill 12 Druze children in the Golan Heights. Our premises may be too far apart to usefully discuss this. The core of my argument (the comparative military and civilian body counts in Syria and Yemen) aren't going to be easy to refute by appeals to Hezbollah's PR. (You may also have responded to a by-2-minutes-or-so earlier version of my comment; we may be responding to each other in too-close succession and talking past each other.)

sporkxrocket 10mo ago
Unguided doesn't mean unaimed. Here's an example (of many) of the types of attacks Hezbollah had been executing: https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1710938611858780314 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1710938611858780314 Edit: I'm now throttled from posting but I was able to go back and find more video of Hezbollah's attacks on Israel military facilities. I think people should watch these and judge for themselves: * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1752035071047926029 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1752035071047926029 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1790471234867568905 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1790471234867568905 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1756031325264318682 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1756031325264318682 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1743565825771032895 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1743565825771032895 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1810011590118305895 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1810011590118305895 * https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1791216213785268522 https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1791216213785268522
- tptacek 10mo ago
  You don't want to miss a step holding Israel to account. I'm not interested in pushing back on you about that. But to accomplish that, you're defending Hezbollah. Hezbollah is indefensible. If you want to keep hashing out why, I'm willing to keep talking about it, but I suspect this isn't a productive conversation.
  - inemesitaffia 10mo ago
    You all will figure out it's all about the Jews eventually. There's a reason why there are still crypto Jews in Iberia. All you have to do is listen to actual Arab discourse from people in the area (or Arab protesters in Arabic in the West). Where they insist repeatedly that's it's about the Jews. All the talk about White Supremacy (Guess who calls black people Abeed?), Settler colonialism, genocide etc are just earworms for Western ears