Trump, “I killed the Ayatollah, I destroyed their air force.”
Reality; joint operations of Israel & U.S. did those things. The specific strike on the Ayatollah was Israeli. The bulk of planes destroyed were by Israel. This bragging verges on stolen valor.
@ImBreckWorsham@ZadeSmith4 Israel was attacked for 2days, 4 Israelis killed. Pikuach nefesh = life’s a priority, you pretend-Christian who hates Jesus’ people. Israel never bombed Christian/Druze Lebanon, it’s taken extreme measures to protect it. Read the world’s urban war expert.
https://t.co/BsMAveSRXV
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.
@realPhilberg@patcondell Bio: “Make yourself hard to kill,” while having the brain power of mold and being a literal walking Darwin Award wannabe. Slow clap.
This muppet believes that a Rabbi called ‘Goldstein Shekelberg’, with ‘TheHolyTalmud’ as a handle, and a crazy TL is a real rabbi.
Jew-haters truly are the stupidest creatures on earth.
@sofiafonsoferre Ia lá várias vezes por ano ao para comprar leite de coco etc no supermercado oriental. Um horror de sujidade e gentalha, especialmente se estacionava na garagem e precisava do elevador do lado oposto, tinha que atravessar a praça. Dia feliz quando descobri o Chen do Prior Velho!
Finally. We can put this “the ICJ ruled plausible genocide” bullshit to bed.
I’ve been arguing this for months, but in case you don’t believe me, here’s the actual President of the ICJ who delivered the ruling:
“It didn’t decide that the claim of genocide was plausible”.
@sideshow1mel@sfliberty I didn’t grasp the latter until vwry recently. The former took me a bit too, but I’m Portuguese and socialism here used to be a bit different. Now they’re fully-blown communists, they’ve caught up.