Israel's military to occupy swathe of southern Lebanon, defence minister says

Wall-E was a great prophetic warning film

Nah, that guy was being sarcastic there, as is made obvious by checking [other blog entries from him](https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/dan-ehrlich/). He is a Zionist with a rather distorted view of the situation, but he likes to call out the even more unhinged elements of the movement, for instance in his article [Bibi: Don’t Dismiss the ICC Warrants as Anti-Semitic](https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/bibi-dont-dismiss-the-icc-warrants-as-anti-semitic/) where he concludes by insisting: >I personally am not a supporter of the Palestinian cause. From day one in 1948 until the present, the Arab populations of Gaza and Lebanon have helped set up the terrorist infrastructures that have been battling Israel for decades. And, when they get the kishkas knocked out of them, they cry foul. >Yet, now Israel is crying foul over the charges against Bibi and Gallant. To dismiss this as evidence of blatant anti-Semitism on the court’s part is being blind to the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and now Lebanon. It’s also turning a blind eye to the crusade of one man who will do almost anything to appease the radical coalition keeping him in power.

Regardless of how is attacking and who is defending this time, I think the only place to stop people from murdering each other in the entire peninsula for centuries to come, is to occupy the entire area by an international force, from Yemen and Oman, to Sinai and Turkey, disarm everyone and force them to live together for a hundred years or so, until the entire generations that are living now have extinct, and the new generations born under the international rule see it as the normal way to live together. I don't think there will ever be piece in that place otherwise. There is so much bad blood there, not for centuries, but for millennia. The Old Testament is full of descriptions of genocide over each other.

Huh, I wonder why that paramilitary force exists. It surely can't be because of Israeli actions in Lebanon in the 80's that Ronald Reagan compared to the Holocaust. And I'm sure now you will go "but they were harboring the PLO". Well the PLO existed because even before Israel existed via UN resolution the future citizens of Israel were carrying out ethnically cleansing and forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and carrying out massacres of those who didn't leave - and yes, hundreds of thousand had been driven out BEFORE the newly existing Arab nations declared war in response. And yes, I would call it agression when Israel signs a "ceasefire" that it violates 10,000 times in only a year, then declares a full scale invasion when the other side violates it once. I call striking 100 Hospitals and medical facilities in the span of a few weeks and killing 40 medical personnel in the process aggression.

That's what all the genocide is for. Their American daddy showed them how it's done with their indigenous population.

No one to radicalize if you are all dead, Bibi probably..

Not targeted at you in particular but I don't get why in these cases people are so quick to frame normal human anger and resistance as "radicalization." I'm going to be real, what would be more "radical" (read: insane) is the expectation that people should just put their heads down and accept this kind of violent invasion of their homes and deaths of their families. No one talks about Ukrainians being "radicalized" when Russia attacked them. But when it comes to lebanese, iranians, palestinians, etc. being attacked by the US or Israel that word is always immediately thrown around to try and proactively tamp down on very human, very understandable rage against the invaders.

That's kind of defeatist bullshit, there. Iran pushing back is the first time they've actually experienced consequences. Nothing is written in stone. Apathy only emboldens authoritarian dumbshits.

They occupied even more Syrian land in 24 and 25 and I bet they'll never leave that too

The important thing is Lockheed Marten is making a lot of money 😎

Tibet was historically incorporated part of China going back to the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century and at various other points in history. But it has also had periods where it has been independent or a tribute/vassal state

Technically Taiwan isn't recognized as an independent nation officially by most countries in the world either funnily enough.