Israeli strikes kill 492 in heaviest daily toll in Lebanon since 1975-90 civil war

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106. The crux of the whole thing for most of us on this forum is the issue of proportionality

There is a raging debate in social media regarding how one defines proportionality. You think Israel's response is disproportionate. If you want to hear a bit from the other side, on why those you wrangle with here do not find disproportionality in Israel’s actions, watch John Spencer or Natasha Hausdorff on YouTube regarding Urban warfare (Spencer) and the international law (Hausdorff). Listening to WHY the other side disagrees with me helps me understand a situation better.

The Arabs living within Mandatory Palestine in 1947 had no Jewish state to contend with yet, had no Bibi Netanyahu, had no West Bank settlements, no Israeli occupation, no ethnic cleansing or genocide, yet Arabs were killing Jews and trying to force them out. The reason British ceded the mandate to the UN in 1947, in their words, was that the conflict was irreconcilable; the Jews have a primary objective to have a state while the Arabs have a primary objective to stop the Jews from having a state.

Bibi has no beef with the Lebanese except maybe they don’t step up and rid themselves of a terrorist group. Beirut used to be like Monte Carlo or places like that. But Arafat brought his band of merry terrorists to settle there after getting kicked out of Jordan for doing the same thing. You also must realize that Hezbollah has been firing missiles at Israel daily since October 8th, right? 80,000 Israeli’s are currently displaced from northern Israel due to the bombing. Israel (and Bibi) have been restrained for a year. Maybe he’s not the homicidal maniac you make him out to be. Betcha didn’t know that…