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Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon
- hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 6mo agoOne of the most diverse countries in the world and still very little attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Lebanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Lebanon
- lostlogin 6mo agoThere used to be a weekly column in the Independent by Robert Fisk, and it frequently discussed life in Lebanon. It sounded amazing, though often rather too war torn. The Independent seems to have gone to garbage for n recent years, sadly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk
- neeeeeeal 6mo ago[flagged]
- hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 6mo agoKeep going, this should be interesting.
- bathtub365 6mo agoBuddhism?
- ck2 6mo agoNo more offensive weapons Let them buy all the defensive weapons they can afford, Iron Dome, etc. I think US gives them the weapons otherwise, they don't even buy them? No more. It is insanity to let them just kill whomever they want whenever they want as many as they want Israel has a right to exist but not kill thousands of innocent people They also have universal healthcare while US never will because we've spent $21 Trillion since 9/11 on militarization, adding another trillion this year and now have to replace all the tomahawks etc
- hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 6mo agoNo, just give them nothing. "Right to exist" is a bullshit propaganda term. Doesn't mean anything.
- tarkin2 6mo agoIt frames themselves as under attack, which thereby gives themselves moral justification to attack, and when those attacked attack back they fulfill their justification, and the circle of violence and death perpetuates.
- A_D_E_P_T 6mo agoIf it were me, we'd go a step further and apply sanctions, just as e.g. Russia and Myanmar are sanctioned.
- sgt 6mo agoThey will just start making their own offensive weapons.
- well_ackshually 6mo ago>Israel has a right to exist Countries don't have any "right to exist", this very term is thought terminating propaganda created by Israel. Israel does not have a right to exist, countries either are, or aren't. People have a right to live. And as it stands, Israel is a terrorist nation commiting war crimes and a genocide daily. "Defensive" weapons also do not exist. If you give Israel weapons, or sell them weapons, you are complicit in their actions.
- andrepd 6mo agoThe West at large continuing to be complicit in Israel's aggression and genocide is a source of great shame to me. Unlike many other atrocities of the past 75 years, this could not have been done without our help.
- karmakurtisaani 6mo agoEurope can't even get Israel out of Eurovision. Hell, only a few countries boycott the event because of Israel.
- drekipus 6mo agoDaily reminder that "championing human rights in the middle east" is the easiest thing in the world if you get to determine who is considered "human" and who is considered "cattle".
- andrepd 6mo ago"We have democracy for some of our citizens" is not the flex they think it is.
- devilkin 6mo agoNot sure what country you are referring to, Iran? USA? Israel? Libanon?
- bulbar 6mo agoI would guess Israel as many do not have deeper insights into the general situation there. Palestinians in Israel in general have full citizenship and rights and as far as I am aware lives relatively well integrated. My experience is from before the mass murdering on 7th October and the following cruel war so things might have changed though.
- lovegrenoble 6mo agoStop Israel's aggression and genocide.
- abdusco 6mo agoNot letting Israel kill thousands because ... just because is antisemitic!
- andrepd 6mo agoTook so long to get flagged? I'm surprised... If the US–Iran front of the war is relevant for hn I don't see why the Israel–Lebanon one wouldn't.
- nojvek 6mo agoAs usual anything Israel gets flagged. From tech perspective, technology builders now need to be extra aware how it’s used. Is releasing the next autonomous algo/library worth it?, if the US department of war with their friends can use that tech to kill more people. Especially when more and more weapons become autonomous. Targets are chosen based on LLM hallucinations. In 2026, we are the baddies. More than tech we need to vote to reign in the Department of War spending. It will be the death of American Empire. The white cells meant to protect, have become cancerous.
- fithisux 6mo agoWe need these news on HN too.
- Protostome 6mo ago[flagged]
- bichiliad 6mo agoThey aren’t “firing back.” Per the article, they’re rigging homes with explosives and detonating them.
- Protostome 6mo ago[flagged]
- cherry_tree 6mo agoAh yes three images from 2024 with red squares in them. Now it’s ok to kill civilians years later in different places!
- Protostome 6mo ago[flagged]
- UncleMeat 6mo agoMolotov cocktail thrown at Altman's gate? Top post and even dang gets involved to condemn violence as totally evil. Bombings? [flagged]
- scarecrowbob 6mo ago[Please excuse the following poorly crafted bit of text that follows; I fundamentally agree with your position and this is the kind of writing I do when I am trying to work out why I have both a visceral reaction to this site but cannot look away.] One of the solid exercises I get from paying attention to this site is a precise understanding of who the tech-bro class thinks is human (and thus relatable in ways that makes violence against those Others scary) and those whom they believe to be living in base-biological forms which they themselves could surely never occupy (positions not "really" human and thus naturally the target of things like 'authorized' and 'legitimate' state-violence). I can't really get my brain into their positions- I generally am opposed to being violent to folks for all reasons, and even if it could be justified ex pos facto, in my understanding violence is never legitimate or authorized. But the site: it's kind of like reading a poorly-written epic poem in some kind of horrid and post-modern style: exegesis of the melted ideas here is work that keeps some of us in touch with what the sociopaths of the tech world think, with their out-sized influence over a world where most of us are simply subject to their fast and violent movement. However, what is more important than teasing out the aesthetics of the violence they may either like or fear is learning what must be done to avoid being seen as legitimate and human by this class vicious wanna-be capitalists and shitters-out-of toxic technology. That work seems like a difficult task, but this site provides so much relevant exercise and example.
- pojzon 6mo agoIf you want to know who rules over you. Look at who you cant curse at. “They” have almoat every big corporation under the belt now.
- BenGosub 6mo agoIt's terrorism
- anonu 6mo agoAs a Lebanese, this is deeply saddening. Israel is trying to exact some sort of "lesson" on the Lebanese. I don't want to blame everything on Israel, but the fact that Lebanon is a weak country unable to rein in Hezbollah is very strongly influenced by the US need to make Israel a hegemon in the region. And the vicious cycle continues ... As a Lebanese I feel helpless. And this type of situation only emboldens the "resistance" which in turns justifies Israels actions in Lebanon. It's never ending and we're done with it ...
- cooloo 6mo agoLebanon a terrorist nation that yet again not responsible for the terrorists.