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Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Lebanese people that they could face “destruction and suffering” like the Palestinians in Gaza if they don’t “free” the country from Hezbollah.

“You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza,” the Israeli prime minister said in a video address directed to the people of Lebanon.

“I say to you, the people of Lebanon: Free your country from Hezbollah so that this war can end.”

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  • Sundial@lemm.eeEnglish
    204·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, I’m not buying that for a second. Just because there’s no clear link between these settler groups and the Israeli government doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. This is what Israel does. Displaces a population through force and violence and then settles the land for their own people.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      2 months ago

      No. There’s a very clear link…

      Here’s the person in charge of Israeli police:

      Ben-Gvir has been convicted eight times for offenses that include racism and supporting a terrorist organization. As a teen, his views were so extreme that the army banned him from compulsory military service.

      Ben-Gvir gained notoriety in his youth as a follower of the late racist rabbi Meir Kahane. He first became a national figure when Ben-Gvir famously broke a hood ornament off then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s car in 1995.

      “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too,” he said, just weeks before Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist opposed to his peace efforts with the Palestinians.

      Two years later, Ben-Gvir took responsibility for orchestrating a campaign of protests, including death threats, that forced Irish singer Sinead O’Connor to cancel a concert for peace in Jerusalem.

      https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-bengvir-jerusalem-alaqsa-cd27dfed6d63f4dec3eae2f51ee23ff0

      When you put a racist terrorist in charge of National Security. It’s pretty impossible to seperate the administration from racist terrorists…

      • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us
        1·
        1 month ago

        When you put a racist terrorist in charge of National Security. It’s pretty impossible to seperate the administration from racist terrorists…

        That’s a good point. So, as far as I know, Ben-Gvir isn’t directly associated with the folks behind the fake ad. However, that’s missing the forest for the trees. The point is that it’s too easy to see him and Bibi being behind the group.

    • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      714·
      2 months ago

      What exactly aren’t you buying?

      It is literally not an advertisement for property. No one is advertising property for sale. Your speculation about the relationship between two groups not selling property seems pretty pointless in this case.

      There are plenty things to be angry at Israel about. You shouldn’t waste your time being angry about imaginary things.

      • Sundial@lemm.eeEnglish
        226·
        2 months ago

        I’m not buying the fact that Israel has no plans to settle Lebanon once they manage to displace enough people. We’ve seen it done many times to the Palestinians over the past 70+ years. There’s no reason for anyone to believe they don’t want to do the same here. They literally tried doing that in the 90s with the south of Lebanon, and Hezbolllah harassed them so much that they were forced to leave the area and give it back to Lebanon.

        • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          613·
          2 months ago

          What’s that got to do with me? I wasn’t talking about whether Israel has plans to occupy or settle Lebanon. I was commenting on whether they are advertising property for sale, which they are not.

          • Sundial@lemm.eeEnglish
            111·
            2 months ago

            What do you mean what’s that got to do with you? I never talked about you in the first place?

            • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caOPEnglish
              17·
              2 months ago

              You:

              I’m not buying the fact that Israel has no plans to settle Lebanon

              I’m not selling that.

              I’m not commenting on Israeli intentions in Lebanon. I’m not defending Israel or their aims. I’m just commenting on one small thing:

              Is Israel advertising property for sale in Lebanon?

              And they aren’t.

              I’m not trying to convince you that it has some big implication for their intentions in Lebanon. It doesn’t. They just aren’t advertising property for sale in Lebanon. Whatever Israel’s intentions are, that claim is false.

              • Sundial@lemm.eeEnglish
                11·
                2 months ago

                The advertisement was made by an extremist settler group that went so far as to rename the areas in Lebanon with Hebrew names. There are too many extremists currently in the Israeli government for me to believe this some fringe group. And even if that were not the case, history has shown this is exactly the kind of thing Israel does.