• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    They’ve already flattened Gaza and turned their eyes to the next target.

    This week saw two concurrent days of unprecedented attacks on Hezbollah operatives throughout Lebanon, with the explosion of communications devices used by members causing the deaths of dozens and injuries of thousands. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attacks and has vowed a response, raising the specter of further escalation in the conflict.

    They’re not gonna stop. As long as America keeps supporting them, they’ll keep lashing at at everyone close and causing a new generation of terrorists so they can keep doing it indefinitely.

    Fascists can’t ever beat their enemies, or they need to invent new ones. That’s why Bibi is suddenly fine letting Hamas leaders leave. So they can come back later.

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      Worse still, their MO is incredibly transparent. They want to establish a “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon, but Israel’s “buffer zones” are just a way of slowly expanding their borders. The problem is that a buffer zone like the DMZ only works as a buffer zone if you keep your own civilian population from moving in to that buffer zone! Israel lets it’s ‘settlers’ move into what are supposed to be buffer zones like the DMZ. After awhile, the settlements are retroactively recognized and made legal. Now you have civilians in ordinary communities living in what was supposed to be a buffer zone. And since they’re right on the border again, they’re now in range of attack from the angry people whose former land they are now living on.

      “Buffer zones” only work if you arrest and/or shoot any of your own people who try and move into them. Otherwise, they’re just a slow-motion conquest via bureaucracy. The same thing has happened in the West Bank. Israel takes Palestinian land around Israeli settlements, declaring them to be security buffer zones. Then they let their settlers move in there. Suddenly they have vulnerable civilians within easy reach of angry Palestinians, so they need to establish a new buffer zone. Rinse and repeat.

      It’s slow-motion ethnic cleansing via zoning code and bureaucracy.

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        It’s been a slow-motion ethnic cleansing for a long time now.

        Bibi needs to be in jail, he uses the absolute worst of Israel to protect him from what he deserves.

        Hopefully once he’s out of power we can consider doing something, but so long as his cronies are around, it’s always more profitable to bulldoze their way to a Greater Israel rather than actually try to have any peace.