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News & Current Events May 12, 2026 at 11:41 AM

Hezbollah leader vows to never surrender, calls for Lebanon to withdraw from negotiations

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Hezbollah leader calls for Lebanon to withdraw from direct negotiations | The Jerusalem Post
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Hezbollah leader calls for Lebanon to withdraw from direct negotiations | The Jerusalem Post
Qassem asserted the terror group's commitment to remaining on the battlefield, saying Lebanon would not return to the state of affairs that existed before March 2.
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strawberry_semenade May 12, 2026 +413
"IRGC puppet vows to never surrender, calls for Lebanon to do the bidding of the IRGC rather than serve the people of Lebanon" More accurate headline.
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Procyon3020 May 12, 2026 +526
Big claims from someone who is hiding in a hole in Iran. “Many Lebanese will die but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”
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HiHoJufro May 12, 2026 +100
I mean, this is pretty much the Hamas, Farquaad, Hezbollah, IRGC etc playbook. So that tracks.
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oddjob_rimjob May 13, 2026 +2
You leave Shrek out of this!
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yuvaldv1 May 12, 2026 +990
This guy is the reason Lebanon can't live in peace. Dragging down the entire country with him whenever his puppet masters in Iran command him to do so.
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bkitt68 May 12, 2026 +505
This is why no one likes Hezbollah in the Middle East and why no one wanted to take Gaza refugees. This is what they have done in every country that has tried to help them.
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Little-Stage1948 May 12, 2026 +384
But western libs are the perfect idiots to come running to their defense 
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Der_Schubkarrenwaise May 12, 2026 +60
That did not work too well this time. Iran miscalculated the response from the overeas left and was also disappointed that Turkey has been rather quiet.
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RenfrowsGrapes May 12, 2026 +120
God damn it’s embarrassing lol
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Pleasant_Narwhal_350 May 12, 2026 +32
I wish each of them offered to take in 1 Hezbollah refugee to live in their home and work for/with them, and the majority of Hezbollah accepted their offer. Then they could hang out together every day, and have a lot of fun talking about their shared resistance against Israel, and their common opposition against settler-colonial violence. Instant peace in Lebanon.
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NegevThunderstorm May 12, 2026 +14
They arent wise with history and how they have attacked their countries
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UseBackground2370 May 13, 2026 +4
As an Iranian woman who was flogged for the crime of attending a party and drinking vodka at age 20 (drinking is illegal regardless of age and we don't even have liquor stores, so it's all homemade or smuggled)...I really want these people to move to Iran and Gaza and Live under Hamas and be queer and have opinions and maybe even try to sing as a woman. Let's see how much they will last. I will pay actual money to watch this show. 
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hakenwithbacon May 12, 2026 +33
I assume by "Western liberals", OP means tankies not people like you and me. Tankies, by definition, love anyone that's anti US or anti Israel even if that involves terrorist groups like the IRGC or Hamas. That part is true, you can easily see that online and in person where those groups are called "resistance forces" instead of what they actually are - terrorists
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Heffe3737 May 12, 2026 -21
Five month old account taking political shots designed to divide and distract. Go figure.
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Little-Stage1948 May 12, 2026 +12
Lol speak of the devil, distract from what?
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Bart_deblob May 12, 2026 +29
Careful there, you don't want to get banned for stating facts.
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Heffe3737 May 12, 2026 -19
A five month old account spreading political divisiveness, bolstered by a three month old account. Go figure.
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Kai3137 May 12, 2026 +5
This is simply the truth the left loves to criticize Israel rightly so but is very quiet when it comes to hezbollah usually calling them a resistence force
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Colbert2020 May 12, 2026 -85
Well the Gaza refugee issue is a bit more complex than that. They don't want to permanently resettle Palestinians because it would deligitimize their claim for right to return.
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Common_Source_9 May 12, 2026 +96
No, because they don't want subversive elements destabilizing their country and trying to take control.
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Colbert2020 May 12, 2026 -44
There is some truth to that but there's also truth in what I said as well.
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Pleasant_Narwhal_350 May 12, 2026 +59
There is no right to return. It's totally absurd. They never lived there. Their parents never lived there. Their grandparents *maybe* lived there. To implement their supposed "right to return" would involve evicting hundreds of thousands of people who live there today, who had nothing to do with the expulsion of their ancestors nearly a century ago. The world was full of wars and territorial changes in the 1930s-1960s, and nearly everyone has accepted the current status quo. Not necessarily because it's the ideal solution, but because legitimising any kind of "right to return" will result in endless cycles of territorial claims, wars, and violence. It's absurd when Putin claims that he should rule Ukraine today because it used to be ruled from Moscow 35 years ago. It's absurd if a Dutch person demands the right to return to his family home in Batavia/Jakarta because his grandparents were expelled from there in the 1940s. It's absurd if a Turkish family demands today that they take back a village in Greece because their ancestors were expelled in the 1920s, or if a Greek family demands today that they take back a village in Turkey for the same reason. It's only Palestinians who still maintain these revanchist claims in the form of the "right to return", and so long as they maintain these claims, they will not have peace.
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Bart_deblob May 12, 2026 +36
Yeah where is ' the right of return' for millions of Eastern Germans that had to walk back to Germany after ww2? Pakistan? Greece? Basically most of everyone is 'a victim of expulsion' if you go back in time enough.
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RoterRudi May 12, 2026 +34
Just ask any of the "from the river to the sea" folks whether germans should be allowed to take back Silesia and greeks should be allowed to take back Anatolia, then watch them bend over backwards to try and resolve the cognitive dissonance.
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luckierbridgeandrail May 13, 2026 +7
Those ethnic Germans and their descendants _do_ now have the ‘right of return’ because both sides are now part of the EU. That's because those Germans haven't been spending the past 80 years blowing up pizzerias in Poznan and buses in Brno. Peace _works_, motherfuckers.
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BorikGor May 13, 2026 +4
Holocaust survivers who's parents lived in Europe get to have all their belongings back for free. Oh, wait...
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MechaAristotle May 12, 2026 -15
\>They never lived there. Their parents never lived there. Their grandparents *maybe* lived there. The Nakba wasn't that long ago, there are surely people alive now who were children when they were displaced.
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Pleasant_Narwhal_350 May 12, 2026 +13
It happened in 1948. 78 years ago. They need to be 83+ today to remember it, and 92+ to have participated in the fighting. The median age in Gaza is 18.
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BorikGor May 13, 2026 +10
They were free to stay and become citizens of Israel, like many did (2 million Arab Israeli population today). They chose to leave because they were told, that Jewish state will be obliterated in a few years and they will be able to come back and take everything left after the Jews were killed. Then Israel was attacked and managed to survive and take land back and then some, to keep the borders easier to defend. And those who left got zilch and somehow still think that someone owns them something because they (their parents) left willingly more than 70 years ago.
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DDoubleDDog May 12, 2026 +152
This is what the Islamic Republic does to every country it colonizes: it drags it down and turns it into a terrorist fortress.
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dumbnaturedude May 12, 2026 +38
It's ok, Israel has a gift waiting for him & his rag tag Terror-Bros.
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Shirolicious May 12, 2026 +40
Also the reason the US and Israel should continue what they started and do what they can to give normal Iranians a chance to take over properly after the current admin is gone. Get rid of the IRGC
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Diafuge May 12, 2026 -47
Normal Iranians like those kids we bombed?
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Comfortable-Code7465 May 12, 2026 +29
such a listnook-y comment lol.
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Impulse3 May 12, 2026 +18
Seriously. That type of shit is insufferable but so on brand.
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Diafuge May 12, 2026 -14
Tell that to those kids. Oh, wait.
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Havoc_1412 May 12, 2026 +18
Maybe you should tell that to the 42 thousand iranians that the Islamic republic massacred in 10 hours. Oh, wait.
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Diafuge May 12, 2026 -18
Oh, I don't disagree that Iran's government needs to go. I disagree with my American tax dollars being used to kill children. On. The. First. F******. Day.
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SeigiNoTenshi May 12, 2026 +16
.....you have no clue on how asinine that whole post was, don't you?
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Diafuge May 12, 2026 +1
Oh, please elaborate.
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Old_Leopard1844 May 12, 2026 +6
As opposed to normal Iranians regime executes and murders daily? To the point that ones bombed are drop in the water?
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zexaf May 12, 2026 +8
Those "kids we bombed" were in a building that was part of a (still-active) military base 10 years ago. It's a tragedy that the American military failed to update their targeting data, but that's all that incident is.
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Diafuge May 12, 2026 +3
"To be sure, there is a difference between deliberate attacks on protected objects and attacks that result in incidental civilian casualties. However, a finding that mistakes were made in the target selection for the Minab attack does not excuse responsibility. If US forces failed to take the necessary measures to avoid civilian casualties, including maintaining updated “no strike” lists, they could be considered in violation of international humanitarian law (IHL)—and, if individuals acted sufficiently recklessly, they may be guilty of a war crime." https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/20/was-the-attack-on-an-iranian-primary-school-a-war-crime
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Diafuge May 12, 2026 +2
Oh, that makes it all better!
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Ket_Yoda_69 May 12, 2026 -4
"Incident" with over 100 dead girls because the US and Israel are 10 years behind in military planning but also totally capable of wiping out Irans nuclear program which has been weeks away for like 50 years.
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zexaf May 12, 2026 +7
War sucks, mistakes happen. Do you know how many innocents were killed by Ukraine? The Iranian nuclear program wasn't completed because it was semi regularly attacked and interfered with. And the "weeks away" was regarding a concerted effort by Iran to jump from "almost there, kind of threatening" to fully ready weaponry. At many points during that period if Iran decided to ignore subtlety they could have rushed to the finish line. They didn't because it's better for them diplomatically to threaten it without being all the way through - but they kept making slower, confidential, progress through this whole period
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Diafuge May 13, 2026 +2
You soullessly said "War sucks, mistakes happen. Do you know how many innocents were killed by Ukraine?" Ukraine was invaded, bro.
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zexaf May 13, 2026 +2
So was Israel. There's no doubt much of Israel's response in Gaza was excessive. But they didn't start that war. Iran funded and directed Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis which regularly attacked Israel throughout and before the war with Hamas in Gaza, as well as publically declaring they aim for the complete destruction of Israel. Selectively targeting their military infrastructure, leadership, and nuclear program is not in any way an invasion - it's a clear and justified preemptive strike, even if Iranians didn't spend the last few decades asking for foreign intervention to take down their regime (which they absolutely did).
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Diafuge May 13, 2026 -1
Can't invade stolen land.
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zexaf May 13, 2026 +3
Are we talking about 80 years ago? Did Ukraine steal Russia's land when the Soviet Union broke up?
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Ket_Yoda_69 May 12, 2026 -5
Don't even compare Ukraine defending itself to Israel and the US's imperialism. They'd be more appropriately equated with Russia.
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zexaf May 13, 2026 +7
And yet Zelensky has frequently spoken in favor of Israel and directly compared Hamas with Russia. Israel and Ukraine regularly work together. Israel is undoubtedly defending itself from Hamas. Israel using too much force is obvious, but the offender is Hamas. Innocents die because Hamas embeds itself with civilians and kill anyone who protests. Israel's pattern of being attacked, responding with far more damage than they received, then going back home is clear.
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Ket_Yoda_69 May 13, 2026 -8
HAMAS EXISTS BECAUSE OF ISRAEL
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zexaf May 13, 2026 +10
Hamas exists because of Iran. Even if Israel gave Hamas a truly tiny amount of help decades ago, that has nothing to do with what is happening in current days. It doesn't change what Hamas is doing or who is attacking who.
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yuvaldv1 May 12, 2026 +39
And why did Israel attack? [Because the PLO kept launching attacks on Israel from Lebanon.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_insurgency_in_South_Lebanon)
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SeigiNoTenshi May 12, 2026 +11
No, down voted for how little you know of history
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BlueBod50 May 12, 2026 -5
I’m objectively correct. This is not a debate.
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BorikGor May 13, 2026 +6
You should read a book or two. That's also not a debate. You really should.
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knowingmonster May 12, 2026 -134
This the guy who won’t give up his freedom and his land and makes everyone suffer for it
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yuvaldv1 May 12, 2026 +114
It's not 'his land', it's Lebanon's land. Perhaps he should not take matters into his own hands and let the state handle things.
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BUDDHAKHAN May 12, 2026 +13
Freedom? This is the f****** Middle East ran by religious zealots. Why don’t you tell that to the women or homosexuals or non Muslim or poor people. Ask them how their Freedom is going
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juant675 May 12, 2026 -2
and how can 1 guy became so important?
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dead_astronaut May 12, 2026 -87
the only reason they cannot live in peace is Israel which is invading them for the second time
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MVP_Legend_87 May 12, 2026 +48
Yes, and why did Israel have to go into Lebanon? Right, because they were attacked by Hezbollah. Just like they were in 2024. Or are you referring to 1982, when terrorists attacked Israel from Lebanon? Noticing a pattern here? Terrorists attack Israel from Lebanon, Israel defends themselves by going after terrorists in Lebanon. If they'd stop attacking Israel, there would be no reason for Israel to be in Lebanon! But you gotta find a way to blame Israel, even though the terrorists are responsible for creating the conflict.
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Iperusereddit May 12, 2026 +53
If the Lebanese government had the backbone to stand-up to Hezbollah and remove them and their arms from their country, Israel wouldn’t have to do it.
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Brambleshire May 12, 2026 -10
Israel doesn't care who is in charge of Lebanon. Israel just wants to clear out Lebanon so they can give it to their settlers.
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Settra_Rulez May 12, 2026 +16
Either Lebanon disarms Hezbollah or Israel will do it for them. Lebanon either can’t or won’t disarm Hezbollah. Why are you surprised that Israel decides to do it for them?
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sweatboxy May 12, 2026 -51
He’s seen what happens when you negotiate with Israel. Gaza is the most recent example.
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PerfectAstronaut May 12, 2026 +33
Were you around in 2005?
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rifleshooter May 12, 2026 +29
Idiot of the f****** month award goes to you.
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luckierbridgeandrail May 13, 2026 +4
> He’s seen what happens when you negotiate with Israel. You're at peace for 50 years, like Egypt.
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EquivalentOne241 May 12, 2026 +164
Rat making threats while hiding in a hole somewhere.
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Impulse3 May 12, 2026 +3
Let’s hope he doesn’t release Hantavirus
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rifleshooter May 12, 2026 +25
He wishes for a fight to the death. Accommodate him.
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Icy_Food356 May 12, 2026 +24
Iranian puppet
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arvigeus May 12, 2026 +93
Boss, someone's calling you on the pager. Press # to boom... I mean beep.
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KamtzaBarKamtza May 12, 2026 +11
Naim Qassem.... Paging Naim Qassem. 
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TxM_2404 May 12, 2026 +233
What? Islamists don't want to negotiate? But didn't listnookors say that Iran was the reasonable side?
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DDoubleDDog May 12, 2026 +148
[The Terrorist Propaganda to Listnook Pipeline](https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-terrorist-propaganda-to-listnook-pipeline)
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luckierbridgeandrail May 13, 2026 +9
2018: [Volunteers found Iran's propaganda effort on Listnook — but their warnings were ignored](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/volunteers-found-iran-s-propaganda-effort-listnook-their-warnings-were-n903486)
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MechaAristotle May 12, 2026 -63
>are topically relevant and built around overlapping ideologies that include anti-Zionism, anti-capitalism, radical Marxism, Islamism, and anti-Western and pro-Iranian-regime sentiment >radical Marxism The true sign of idiocy anywhere lol, even more clear when "anti-capitalism" is listed with this other stuff. Oh and what a suprise, the author has articles defending Trump, attacking "woke" trans issues and more. Edit: backed by Peter Thiel too Edit2: pretty clear people don't like when obvious bias is pointed out lol
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DDoubleDDog May 12, 2026 +53
Thank you for providing us with a great example of what the article is talking about.
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MechaAristotle May 12, 2026 -33
That site is from all I can tell, just a MAGA tech-bro one, why would it be at all credible?
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DDoubleDDog May 12, 2026 +23
It's not. You're lying and ignoring the evidence.
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Comfortable_Cash_140 May 12, 2026 +19
Woooossshhhhh...that's the sound of a comment going over your head! LOL!
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CombatRedRover May 12, 2026 +8
I know it sounds wild, but I'm seriously starting to think 12er mentality is what's really happening with Hezbollah and Iran.
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_Zyr May 12, 2026 +15
Well of course not. Hezbollah will see every person in Lebanon in a mass grave before willingly giving up an iota of power.
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xmuskorx May 12, 2026 +39
and then people ask why is Israel fighting a war against Hebzolla?
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JD0x0 May 12, 2026 +29
Time for a new pager, buddy.
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UninspiringInspira May 12, 2026 +3
Huh??? Wasn’t Lebanon saying that Hezbollah has been SEVERELY WEAKEN AND THE LEBANON GOVERNMENT IS THE BOSS IN THE HOUSE???
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LwyrUpAmrca May 12, 2026 +5
Hezbollah is a parasite on Lebanon
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Over-Willingness-933 May 12, 2026 +48
The EU could really help Lebanon. Providing real financial help by funding the Lebanese army to remove Hezbollah and restricting the debt, would make Lebanon and Israel safer.
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Angryfunnydog May 12, 2026 +93
They're providing said help since 2011 already, the problem is that half of this help ends up in Hezbollah possession Despite how sadly this sounds - nobody will solve Lebanon problems but Lebanese, and this will inevitably end up in another civil war, with 30% of population being Shia and probably supporting Hezbollah
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terragutti May 12, 2026 +12
Exactly. Hezbollah is part of the lebanese government. They have seats and are officially in the govt. idk about their political dealings but its more complicated than people think
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Hairy-Trip May 12, 2026 +37
The Lebanese army has so many Shias it's practically Hezbollah itself
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Colbert2020 May 12, 2026 +29
The reality is that any aid that went to Lebanon would fall into the hands of Hezbollah. They are like the Mexican Cartel but as a more unified army and heavily integrated into all parts of Lebanon's society.
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SeaTraffic6442 May 12, 2026 +15
Things like this are why I hope we move away from oil quickly. It’s bad enough that the Middle East is such a shit show. But since they have oil, the rest of the world has to get sucked into this shit. I wish we could get to the point where the entire western world doesn’t to care about a violent religious fundamentalist is screaming about in some cave in the desert.
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heyThereYou3 May 12, 2026 +12
He is a dead guy now. 
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DDoubleDDog May 12, 2026 +17
If they don't surrender, they will be defeated in battle. Either way, Lebanon will be free one day.
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Main_Statistician579 May 12, 2026 +12
Lmfao are we ever surprised!? These creatures were born in the mud. Lebanon needs serious leader changes. Imagine being a country and your only purposes is to hate other countries 🤣.. it’s like cmon now Hamas , disband and grow up or deal with the mossad & USA who will never let you & your disgusting ways successfully live. I hear there are some bachabachs for you in heaven or sry wait Pakistan
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The_mingthing May 12, 2026 +6
Hizbolla is not the goverment of Lebanon, its a terrorist militia that the Lebanese goverment has been to weak to deal with.
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Watsons-Butler May 12, 2026 +1
Did he also vow “By Grabthar’s Hammer”?
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OB1KENOB May 13, 2026 +1
Sigh… time to start building more pagers
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CassiusCreed May 12, 2026 -58
Lebanon needs to actually stand up and take control of their own borders. Israel's actions are illegal and tantamount to war crimes but the Lebanese government should have dealt with Hezbollah a long time ago.
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DDoubleDDog May 12, 2026 +79
Israel's actions are legal because they are self defense. Even the Lebanese government says Israel's actions are legal and they have the right to attack Hezbollah in self defense. [Lebanese Foreign Minister says Israel has 'right' to attack country while Hezbollah still armed](https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/01/14/lebanese-foreign-minister-claims-israel-has-the-right-to-attack-lebanon-while-hezbollah-retains-arms/)
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Cyzax007 May 12, 2026 +31
30+% of the Lebanese army are Shia... They're unlikely to fight against Hezbollah...
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OHaZZaR May 12, 2026 +22
Not only that, but we had an incredibly bloody civil war that I’m sure nobody wants a repeat of.
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FantasticFungiiii May 12, 2026 -4
just curious. Care to elaborate?
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OHaZZaR May 12, 2026 +17
Wish I could mate. It’s terribly complicated and I do not want to risk oversimplifying or misplacing blame. My father told stories of the war when I was younger and more ignorant, but what I do know is it was bloody, sectarian, and had a bit of involvement from Syrians, Israelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians to some extent. You’ll also never get the same story from any two Lebanese about the civil war, or so my dad told me. Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.
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HockeyHocki May 12, 2026 +4
Since the 1948 war in Israel, there were hundreds of thousands displaced Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, for the most part they were Muslim (Lebanon was a Christian controlled country then) They were kept seperate, in huge camps, it was difficult to manage. The PLO offered to come in and take control of the camps provided the PLO could fight Israel from Lebanon, believe it or not Lebanon agreed to it in the [Cairo agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Agreement_(1969\)). Most Lebanese will probably tell you this decision is where things started going bad. The PLO started militarizing the Palestinian refugees As mentioned Christians were in power in Lebanon back then despite a demographic shift over time wherby they were argueably the minority in the country. This had built up alot of tension, sense of unfairness. With the PLO in place and tens of thousands militarized the Muslims decided they could change things by force
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potato_creeper1001 May 12, 2026 -3
ينتاك
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gweeps May 12, 2026 -38
Good. Lebanon will achieve nothing by capitulating to Israel.
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Idosol123 May 12, 2026 +15
Your first mistake was confusing between Lebanon and the foreign entity that's hizbollah. Go to the Lebanese sub to educate yourself
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Cirno-BreastLicker May 12, 2026 -61
At this point one would wonder if he is a plant from mossad, I just cannot fathom people being this dense on purpose.
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Colbert2020 May 12, 2026 +51
Friendly reminder than Egypt and Israel have had almost 50 years of peace between them. Crazy what happens when rockets are not flying from your borders at you. The mental gymnastics you need to do to believe that Israel wants to keep fighting these unpopular multi-front wars is truly remarkable. It's very simple: Iran and Israel are in opposition to one another. Iran is fighting a proxy war against Israel and their allies using factions embedded within groups. Hezbollah is one of those groups. This guy is currently hiding in Iran. LOL.
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