@lauferlaw@ryangrim They are bombing Lebanon apartment houses. They are attacking another country not Hezbollah it would be the same thing if people came into this country and started bombing our cities to attack anti-FIFA
Rep. Randy Fine called VP JD Vance’s comments on Israel “inappropriate and frankly disgusting.”
Fine criticized the implication that the US props up Israel, stating, “The state of Israel was not created by the United States. It is not funded by the United States, except in some small way. It was created in the blood and sweat and tears of the Jewish people rising out of the Holocaust.”
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To be very clear: reality is very different from the rhetoric. The IDF takes extraordinary measures to mitigate civilian harm in Lebanon. In fact, as in Gaza, it employs more civilian harm mitigation measures than any military in past or current operations.
The IDF issues evacuation warnings through multiple channels including text messages, phone calls, voicemails, flyers, radio, television, and social media. It operates dedicated civilian harm mitigation cells, tracks civilian presence through drones, cell phone data, and other ISR capabilities, and uses rigorous targeting processes that include legal reviews and proportionality assessments for any planned strikes. Legal reviews at lowest tactical level, and with the ability (which happens often as well as command decisions not to strike based on all context) to override commander decisions, unlike any other military.
In southern Lebanon, these measures are particularly effective because civilians can move away from military objectives and active combat areas.
Even in Beirut, the IDF has repeatedly provided warnings identifying specific buildings that will be struck and when. The warnings have proven so reliable that Lebanese citizens and journalists have set up cameras in advance to record the strikes. When targeting Hezbollah senior leaders, command meetings, or other military objectives in densely populated areas such as Dahiyeh (the Hezbollah controlled neighborhood of Beirut), the IDF relies on precision-guided munitions, small diameter munition (warheads with less explosives), and other low collateral damage munitions, detailed intelligence, and other methods designed to limit collateral damage while achieving the legitimate military objective.
There is also no equivalency. Israel does not intentionally target civilians. Hezbollah is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization whose strategy includes deliberately attacking civilians. Hezbollah launches rockets, missiles, and drones at civilian communities in northern Israel (daily, despite any cease fires), targeting homes, schools, businesses, and civilian infrastructure.
One side conducts legal reviews, proportionality assessments, civilian warnings, and precision strikes against military objectives. The other is a international designated terrorist group that intentionally places military assets among civilians while deliberately targeting civilians.
I visited the first Gaza Holocaust Memorial in the US
Every American city should host the Wall of Tears
We paid for this genocide and should reckon with it for eternity
Israel is bombing Christian Southern Lebanon relentlessly and has no respect for America or President Trump.
Even though we give them BILLIONS of our own hard earned tax dollars, weapons, and military assistance.
America is a Christian nation and it’s absolutely pathetic that our government leaders do not stand up and take a stand against the murderous Israeli regime.
They are not defending themselves.
They are invading, attacking, and murdering thousands and thousands of innocent people and children while claiming they are fighting terrorism.
The Iran war was the biggest mistake Trump ever made and Americans and our troops are paying the price, financially, economically, and with 13 military lives and injuries.
The MOU is worthless if Israel cannot be reigned in.
@warsurv@MaajidNawaz He is right the world hates Israel but he is wrong about Trump he will never cut Israel’s weapons supply. Trump thinks the isis leader in Syria has more morals the Isis leader admits to beheading Americans
@SenTedBuddNC Israel should have causalities attacking civilians. They are killing civilians. They deserve everything that they get and more. They are checking in the United States from within if you were for Israel, you are against the American taxpayer.
Israel is attacking all their neighbors. It’s a good thing. The IDF soldiers got killed. They should have some casualties invading another country attack attacking women and children and civilians. Israel is evil and so is Ted Budd
Israel faces an existential threat at almost every corner.
If Israel were to lay down their arms, they would be completely destroyed, but if Iran’s proxies, like Hezbollah, were to lay down their arms, we would have peace in the region.
Israel has a right to defend themselves.
@RepNancyMace Yes, please stop importing. Israeli’s. These people are horrible. They’re bribing our government spying on us. They try to take away our free speech they’re evil.
I have never heard of a country invading a neighbor and then calling it unfair that their soldiers died in that invasion. I don’t think any other country ever even thought to make that complaint.
On top of that, Israel now wants to retaliate for its soldiers being killed while invading their neighbor.
This is pure madness. Just leave Lebanon.
“I am personally proud of the holocaust of Gaza, and that 80 years from now, they will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did,”
—The Israeli Minister of Social Equality.