Why did Israel hit the Lebanese capital of Beirut so hard over the last few days just as the supposed and agreed ceasefire started? It was not anything to do with Trump. It was not to do with Iran. The reason was revenge.
Israel had suffered major losses, with many of their Merkava tanks being blown up by the freedom fighters in southern Lebanon. Facing such a humiliating military setback, Israel took the same action many other invading forces have taken in similar circumstances. Unable to target and stop the elusive fighters destroying their tanks and killing IDF soldiers, the Israeli military redirected its attention toward the soft target of civilians going about their daily lives.
They have massacred people in shopping malls, incinerated those attending a funeral, and bombed civilians in their homes as they slept.
We have seen such tactics before. It was routine in countries under Nazi occupation, where, after resistance fighters killed officers, German forces would round up civilians and execute them in the hope of deterring further resistance.
In the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, NATO planes came under fire from a highly mobile Serbian anti-aircraft unit that kept evading retaliation. NATO then resorted to bombing civilians, most famously in the case of the Grdelica Gorge train bombing on April 12, 1999. A passenger train was crossing the bridge at that exact moment. The missile struck the train directly, and then a second strike hit as rescue efforts began.
Then came the Lužane bus bombing on May 1, 1999, another bridge strike. NATO bombed a bridge near Lužane while a civilian bus was crossing at the moment of impact.
Result: around 40 or more civilians killed.
Again, NATO labeled it collateral damage, but the pattern is hard to ignore.
(by the way I once befriended a pro assassin and he expIianed why he often carried out his hits on small bridges as his victims had limited escape routes... true story in 3 Seconds in Bogota)
So if you think this was right, or that rounding up and killing women and children was justified when resistance fighters could not be caught, then so be it.
I know many who have fallen for the Islamophobia psyop are thinking, “well, dem muzzas deserve it.”
Maybe we should remind them that around 40% of the Lebanese are Christians.
I wonder if they are able to take this on board and, if so, they are still OK with the idea of blue and green eyed Christian children being blown apart and incinerated?
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