It wasn't just the statue

[dalton99a]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/israel-soldier-jesus-statue-sledgehammer-lebanon

Israeli army to launch criminal investigation after soldier strikes Jesus statue in Lebanon

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Israeli soldiers have damaged other mosques and historical religious sites as part of their invasion of south Lebanon, but Israeli officials made no statements about the destruction of these places of worship. Male soldiers have also filmed themselves rummaging through underwear drawers in houses in south Lebanon whose occupants were displaced and wearing the intimate clothing of women while mocking them.

Last week, residents of the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil mourned the loss of the Grand Mosque of Bint Jbeil – a structure that dated back to the Roman empire.

The shrine of the prophet Saint Peter in the city of Chamaa, a mosque that is believed to house the remains of the saint and is a shrine for Shia Muslims and Christians, was partly bulldozed last week, according to the local NGO Green Southerners.

The intentional targeting, damage or destruction of religious sites or places of workshop is considered a violation of international humanitarian law under the Geneva Conventions.

The Israeli army has also demolished wide swathes of towns in south Lebanon, releasing videos of remote detonations. Israel’s media has released videos of drone footage that shows towns being razed to the ground, with the Israeli military saying it will continue demolishing houses on the Israel-Lebanon border.

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The new barbarians of the Middle East

[Wicked Blue]

1. I have to wonder if they trained our ICEholes nt

[cbabe]

11. Probably:

https://therealnews.com/deadly-exchange-us-sends-hundreds-of-law-enforcement-to-israel-to-learn-worst-practices-from-idf

DEADLY EXCHANGE’: US SENDS HUNDREDS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ISRAEL TO LEARN ‘WORST PRACTICES’ FROM IDF

Through police exchange programs, local and federal officials travel to Israel for training that advocates say further militarizes the police and exacerbates harm to marginalized communities.

BY VICTORIA VALENZUELA
JANUARY 7, 2025

It is not uncommon for police to drive around with their lights flashing in Black and working-class neighborhoods in Atlanta. This is a tactic used to intimidate and make their presence known; for residents of these neighborhoods, it can feel like psychological warfare. US law enforcement learned this strategy from Israeli forces.

Thousands of law enforcement officials have traveled to Israel to learn new repression strategies and surveillance techniques from the Israel National Police, Israel Defense Forces, and the Shin Bet, who inflict violence, crowd control, and surveillance onto Palestinians. Anti-imperialist advocates say the tactics being taught to US law enforcement were battle-tested on Palestinians and spread to the US to target Black and Brown communities through a training relationship that grants Israeli forces more power and profit, causing further harm to Palestinians.

These programs are facilitated by the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, and the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange Program—the latter of which was started in 1996. US leaders sought Israel’s guidance to curb terrorism, and a ‘deadly exchange’ of worst practices between US and Israeli forces was born. Federal, state, county, and municipal law enforcement executives including local police departments, the FBI, and ICE have traveled to Israel, while thousands of officials have attended conferences with Israeli experts in the US. An inaugural “US-Israel Security Conference” by JINSA occurred last month, where a former Israel Defense Forces commander was included as a guest speaker.

“Certain police practices and policies that all happen time and time again, when you look back and try to pull back on the thread to see where they got this from, it always comes back to somebody went to Israel.”
STEVEN H., AN ORGANIZER WITH THE BLACK ALLIANCE FOR PEACE.

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[hlthe2b]

2. So, how will the Xian MAGATs respond to this trend to view Christian sites the same as Muslim?

Hmmm?

[tanyev]

6. "It wasn't a statue of Jesus, it was a doctor!"

[dalton99a]

9. A nekkid doctor vibing

[paleotn]

19. Yeah. Reconcile this, maga Xians.

Jesus meets sledge hammer.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/israel-soldier-jesus-statue-sledgehammer-lebanon

And how soon Israelis forget their own history. Or does that only apply to synagogues?

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht

[Bettie]

3. But...they're the most

moral army in the world, or so we're told.

[leftstreet]

4. America's "greatest ally"

wtf is wrong with these people?

[dalton99a]

5. Supported by our tax dollars.

[Emile]

46. That needs to end!

[Mossfern]

7. This must be the works of Haredi or other religious (Jewish) fundamentalistt

that are following Torah literally where it says to destroy the gods of those they vanquished.
We do not live in the Bronze age!

[highplainsdem]

8. Unbelievably stupid of them, as well as criminal.

[Goonch]

10. ;-{) Israeli soldiers photographed with lingerie of Palestinian women in Gaza

[displacedvermoter]

12. Kinda looks like the FBI director at a hockey game

[MustLoveBeagles]

23. Proof that stupid isn't confined to the US

[LymphocyteLover]

26. sick fucks

[gulliver]

13. "Harsh disciplinary action" is warranted

I wouldn't want to be the moron who did this. I think we can all agree it's disrespectful of Christianity, so the guy is undoubtedly a moron. At best.

[malaise]

14. Something is seriously wrong when you can kill 77,000 Palestinians ,

thousands more in Lebanon, murder 170 plus little girls in Iran, but knocking down a statue is a bigger issue for religious folks.
This planet is sick.

[dalton99a]

15. +1

[leftstreet]

17. +1

[questionseverything]

20. Christian missionaries have been targeted in Gaza for the last two years

Right along with the Palestinians but those articles haven’t gained attention, sympathy or traction so if it takes a photo of a cross to wake people up to the fact that no one is safe from the idf, so be it

[malaise]

32. Scary indeed

Rec

[malaise]

36. Important point n/t

[MustLoveBeagles]

24. Good point

[LymphocyteLover]

25. I really hate these religious freaks-- they are the cause of all this evil

[calimary]

27. Another +1

[Skittles]

34. THANK YOU

says a lot about how big the delusions are

[malaise]

35. Indeed

People love them

[cayugafalls]

45. 50 years. Maybe less. I do not have faith in humanity anymore. The elite are not human.

Plan. Prepare. Survive.

[malaise]

47. I tell friends that am not unhappy knowing that

I am a senior citizen. I’d hate being in my 20s in this mess

[Gaugamela]

16. The banality of evil. It's contagious.

[purr-rat beauty]

18. It's not antisemitism to be disgusted by this..

....unless that's who you are proud to be

the IDF ARE terrorists

[Joinfortmill]

21. I have a personal interest in Israel surviving, but this shit must stop. Enough!

[lindalou65]

22. Such needless destruction

It just makes me sick. What barbarians some humans are!

[Botany]

28. Didn't the Nazis do this to Synagogues, Jewish Businesses, Homes, and Schools?

[John Farmer]

39. The Israeli's used to say "never again."

Now they're up to it themselves.

[Hey Joe]

29. With the full backing of the US government and

the religious right, Israel has become the very evil that once attempted to destroy their own civilization.
I’ve seen enough and heard enough from Israels backers and apologists.
And so has the rest of the world.

[patphil]

30. State sponsored terrorism.

Right up there with Hamas and Hezbollah. US funding of Israel's military in not any different from Iran funding Hamas and Hezbollah, except for the quantity and quality of the weapons.
Thanks to Netanyahu, the Israeli government has abandoned their "high moral ground" position, and has engaged in ethnic cleansing.

And the forever war grinds on.

[malaise]

33. Nailed it

Rec

[quakerboy]

31. im only aware of one country

That has sunk a us ship and not paid the consequences.

The ties between the us people and the Israeli people are real, but as best I can tell the fealty between the us government and the Israeli government only seems to flow one way.

[maxsolomon]

37. I thought the IDF was exempting the Marionite Xtian villages

and concentrating on Ethnic Cleansing of Shiites.

Whoops.

Hey, monotheists: IT'S ALL THE SAME GOD.

[dalton99a]

38. The crazies hate Christians too:

An annual report by the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue, an interreligious group in Jerusalem, documented “a continued and expanding pattern of intimidation and aggression” of harassment or violence directed at Christians in Israel by Israeli Jews in 2025.

It described 155 incidents, including 61 physical attacks on people and 52 attacks on church properties. The most common expression of hostility was spitting at churches and clergy members, often in broad daylight or even in front of police officers, the report found.

The center noted a sharp rise in cases of verbal harassment, which it said reinforced the perception among Christians that they are seen as “unwanted guests” in Israel rather than a legitimate and integral part of the Holy Land’s religious and social fabric.

Hana Bendowsky, who leads a Rossing Center project to teach Israeli Jews about Christianity, said that hostility toward non-Jews was being fueled by the rise of Israeli nationalism, and by a growing sense that “the whole world’s an antisemite, that everyone who’s not us should be rejected and should not be here.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/world/middleeast/israeli-soldier-lebanon-sledgehammer-jesus.html

[Seinan Sensei]

41. Tell it to US Ambassador Mike Huckabee

He's an ordained Southern Baptist minister

[malaise]

40. More Evil

Last week, residents of the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil mourned the loss of the Grand Mosque of Bint Jbeil – a structure that dated back to the Roman empire.

[Exp]

42. FUCKERS! I AM DONE WITH ISRAEL! NO MORE ANYTHING AS FAR AS I CARE. I'M CALLING MY SENS AND REP.

[Jack Valentino]

43. Israel has BECOME what they initially sought to protect themselves against---

GENOCIDAL MANIACS !!!!


And "how many times have they raped Lebanon?" I have asked previously....

I count two now, but I may have not paid enough attention
during the 40-some years between the first and the last time that I recollect....

[Botany]

44. Me too

The creation of the State of Israel resulted in the destruction of the homeland of the Palestinian People
who by the way had nothing to do with the Holocaust and despite over all of this time they haven’t done
one thing to make it right to them. The West Bank and Gaza should have been a new Palestine. Israel is
now annexing Southern Lebanon to be part of Israel and peace in the Middle East is further away.

[Exp]

48. That blue and white flag is becoming more and more like that hated red, black and white flag. nt