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@@Quan-gotta_go - So, would you rather be on the side of the terrorist organizations known as Hamas and Hezbollah?! Perhaps you are also a strong supporter of Osama Bin Laden and/or Al Quida? Here is a bit of information for you: All of the above noted terrorist organizations hate America and would love to harm Americans just like Al Quida did on September 11th, 2001, or just like Hezbollah did to over 240 American marines in Beirut in November 1983.
Another notable fact is that there are strong ties between Hezbollah leaders and Iran, since there are even marriages between them and daughters of generals and vice versa.
@@mahatmadutcheastcompany6726 The US or Israel had zero asppiration to occupy either side permanently and left when they wanted to. The Taliban was literally pulling security for the US while they left so they weren't chasing anyone. And I'm sure you were espousing the same rhetoric before the Gaza invasion, but now bitching and moaning about Genocide. Israel will use the same tactics in Southern Lebanon where they'll just simply evacuate your shields, I mean civilians, and level your infrastructure and watch you surrender in droves.
That conflict has much wider implications than the usual Middle Eastern ones. Russia is Iran's key ally and thinks it will benefit from any kind of distractions from it's war of conquest against Ukraine and the wider West. It will happily pour fuel over any regional conflict in efforts to light them up. That is the one key driver for an escalation you missed I think, otherwise a very good video and thank you for that.
Tbh that is excatly the point. Guns dealer from the snowy east and defense contractor from shiny summer west need the conflict to keep their business run
Russia is not the only country adding fuel, the US and UK are as well. nobody is really hoping for peace except the poor people whose homes are on the battleground. everyone else is seeking influence or profit.
I cant see why the US would be "adding fuel", Its not like they really want to support israel for further battles, they arent supplying israel for a war, more like for light support. More then that the US is even trying to stop israel lately telling israel to stop fighting in gaza@@theoverunderthinker
@@adityasurya420sounds like you watched the SC Laura Ingraham / Trump Town Hall last night. Stinger missiles from AZ and small arms from the Inland Empire, to the shells of PA, and Colorado's eye in the sky... Sounds like a country song right
As long as the state of Israel is lead by right wingers, there will never be peace there, because that is against their interests. Imagine you're in the business of selling house alarms, or guns, but then suddenly all crime disappeared, you would run out of business. Well, Likhud etc. literally get elected on the promise of keeping Israel safe(lol, so much for that btw), so making sure the Israeli people always has a reason to be afraid is crucial. That is why Netanyahu has built Hamas and why they are constantly occupying and antagonizing their neighbours.
@@LawAndTheory “the numbers show that all that are dead are combatants” What numbers, the ones Israel spoonfed you? What a ridiculous assertion made with no evidence might I add. There’s no point in arguing. Nonsensical take.
@@LawAndTheory yes cause apparently lebanese militants dont have the right to stand on their own land while israeli terrorist forces could invade our lands and slaughter civilians and go toruture them in prisons. When your dealing with an enemy that shows no sense of humanity within them, it reaches to conflicts as such. israel's neighbours are not the problem, its israel itself..
@@LawAndTheory Every other conflict in the past between these two parties have resulted in accurate body counts from the Gaza ministry of health, confirmed by Israel too. Enough said
The best intelligence agency in the world didnt know this was going to happen inside of territory they control? They wanted this. It may not have been planned but they get to do what theyve always wantwd lol
As an Iranian born, USA citizen, I want peace for my brothers and sisters in Palestine (Gaza west bank) and in Israel. We need to get along and not kill each other. Peace and love!
We all want that but it is a 2 way street. If your neighbour kept attacking your home over years, you would be angry even if you practiced as much peace as possible. If your neighbour than ended up brutally killing your child, would you still let it slide without saying enough is enough, attacking the neighbour inside it to end the threat to the rest of your family for good? You can try to spare the innocent members of that house but what if that evil neighbour hides behind their family while attacking you? You let him kill you? You know if you let the neighbour go and die they will come after the rest of your family. What would you do? Would you take your chance in ending the threat with the hostage being harmed or killed as well? Now you may call the cops, but what if you can't because you are the government/police responsible for your people (family).
Yeah, normal people want peace. But then normal people adopt insane views of how a country should be ruled and become extremists. The extremists want to abuse power with their harsh laws, rights abuses and controlling ways. The regions dominant religion IS the problem. As Cappy points out: The "Revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran uses Shia Islam as cultural connective tissue between themselves and Shia based militant groups in the region. The majority of Palestinians are Shia muslims. Hamas is a Shia based militant group." Why is this religion so hell bent on extremist control and taking away basic liberties?
It's fascinating just how different the two conflicts between Hamas and Hezbollah are. Hamas acts as they are motivated largely by their ideology, with with no real obligations to fulfilling the interests of it's own citizens. While Hezbollah, are far more calculating and pragmatic in their conflicts. This goes to show that what might apply in one conflict between Israel might not apply for another.
@@dominuslogik484 That's a load of bollocks. Hezbollah primarily floats on a pool of drug trafficking (mainly taxing it) run exclusively by Palestinians because the Lebanese don't exactly like their occupiers and refuse to let Palestinians work for them. This ensures a steady supply of cheap dumb manpower for Hezbollah that'll do whatever you want for a few bucks. Religion is a nice coathanger to put it all on, but at the core it's just about money. If the Lebanese and Palestinians refuse to take drugs starting tomorrow, Hezbollah is broke before 2025.
Chris, I don't disagree with your assessment. I think it's pretty spot-on. I've been running around Northern Israel for the past 4 days. There's a whole sense of calm here that I have not seen in Prior conflicts. The one thing that resonates amongst Israelis, is the return of the hostages. Protests here in Tel Aviv and people lining the roads in the north, all reflect the return of the hostages. The return of the hostages is more important than anything else at this point in time. although that can't be construed as Israel being weak. At the military base I was allowed to go to, every one of the troopers is committed getting back to hostages and some sort of diplomatic solution. It's clear, they think they have seriously hurt Hamas, but not killed it yet.
@@hobz3816 Please read what the Hannibal Directive actually means before you use it to insinuate that Israel does not care about their people.... Also , the Hannibal Directive was revoked a couple of years ago.
@Roy_Osovsky the Hannibal direct means shooting everything on sight so no valuables fall to the enemy. On Israeli radio on oct 15th a helicopter pilot admitted to that order being given and the death count was suspiciously lowered to 1200
@@Kroshan2 that's definitely NOT what it means ... Google it and you'll see . And about that helicopter pilot , I don't know what he supposedly "admitted " , but I'm willing to bet it was taken out of context to paint a different picture.
Can't argue with that. I don't know why other than some spiritual vortex of contention in the dimensions. There are areas on earth that are just not logical and this area is one of them
We have to decide what comes first, alliance or fairness. There's an ethical debt to choosing the first. The selective treatment is painful. It's as if the Palestinian suffering doesn't even touch the Is**eli allies. At 3:30 it's mentioned that "its hard to imagine being ripped from your life for four months". I can just think of the Palestinian children, whose suffering dwarves anything on the other side for 75 years. Anyone interested in the ethical justification of this should look up videos by Miko Peled, who's father fought in 1947, was a celebrated general of the 1967 war and grandfather Avraham Katsnelson, signed Israel's Declaration of Independence. Miko's father, the Major General, realized that they were the oppressors and Miko continues speaking out.
4:40 When has israel ever exercised restraint? bombing multiple neighboring countries or committing a genocide is the opposite of exercised restraint. -.-
The main battle tactics of the IDF is "hatira lemaga" which means "strive for contact". That's what he means by having an attacking force form of combat. You can see it in all air and ground manuveres. In the 6 day war, Israel used a surprise attack to immobile Egypt's air force.
@@NadavLanesmanof course he’s not meaning that,he try to say Israel is the bad side in the story who attacks first. You talk about Hatira lemaga which shows the bravery of IDF soldiers unlike their enemies who running and abandon their friends on the battlefield,which Israel will never do to their soldiers. In the six days war Israel didn’t attack first they only took huge advantage to ruin the Egypt airforce. Israel start to attack only after Egypt kick UN forces from Sinai and sending a lot Egypt units close to Israel border, they also blocked the shipping to Israel Iraq forces going inside Jordan to the border with Israel which is clearly sign of war,like always Israel defending herself,stop saying BS about Hatira Lemaga which shows the bravery of IDF soldiers.
No actually, the arabs are much more organized, powerful and determined than ever. Israel isn’t ready for a full on war. It’s been a few months since the gaza war started, and Israel has yet to paralyze Hamas logistic and tunnel system.
@@jnoub2947and also wrong hamass is hurting now and they are being picked up in foreign countries where they thought they were safe finally this can end
@@jnoub2947How are they more organised than ever? Iraq has been deciminated by 3 decades of wars, both conventional and civil. They are done. Syria is similar. Jordan hates Palestine. The gulf monarchies are indifferent. Egypt wants nothing to do with it. The support base of Palestine comprises lukewarm Hezbollah efforts and the Houthis. That's it.
@@jnoub2947Syria is dead, egypt is broke, Jordan is relatively disarmed and Saudi want Israeli tech. Who is left to be a threat other than the rabid dogs like Hamas and hezbollah?
Great video, just need to correct a few things as a person who lives in Nabatieh (south Lebanon) 1) Nabatieh is a city and not a village, it is the capital of the Nabatieh governorate 2) The strike on Nabatieh was from a drone that fired 2 shots, one on the ground floor that killed Abbas al Dibis and 2 other Hezbollah fighters and one on the first floor that killed a family of 7, including 3 children as well as 4 syrian refugees. 3) The situation has been in fact escalating here, as Nabatieh governorate was targeted multiple times last week which had not happened the prior 4 months (since we are roughly 20km from the border) and yesterday Ghazieh was targeted (a city near Saida, much deeper than Nabatieh, roughly 40km from the border) in which they destroyed a steel factory and a generator factory, which the IDF claims that it is 2 Hezbollah missile warehouses 4) HZB has annouced so far that 205 of its soldiers died in the clashes We are all on edge here and hope the situation does not escalate any further, but both the IDF and HZB have been increasing their threats in their recent speeches.
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises what secondary explosions? If you mean the fire it is because of all the fuel stored in the factory. Anyway you can check for yourself from the pictures of the place both before and after the explosion. If it was a weapon warehouse the. HZB wouldnt have let the government anywhere near it to extinguish the fire, they would have done it themselves like they done many yimes in the past. Eitherway HZB can claim whatever they want and the IDF will claim whatever they want, the truth is always somewhere inbetween and the only people that suffer are us regular citizen...
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises for some reason my replies keep getting deleted so I will be more vague. The company is called Infinite Power, you can check it up for yourself. The factory had fuel depots, those tend to burn for a while. If it were truly an HZB warehouse then they wouldn't have allowed first responders anywhere near it like they always tend to do.
@@Nabjab94the videos of that "steel and generator" factory clearly see rockets flying from the mushroom cloud... what steel beam flies striaght out a explosion??
The last 2points maybe. Elite fighters my ass. These guys are just fighting a brigade with yassine rockets. No advance weapons nothings just a few rockets and still can do anything. Try to flip the military power between hamas and israel and you ll see the difference
why Israel didn't enforce such thing before 1948? oh because it didn't exist and the colonization came here and plant them. believe it or not: it's just a matter of time.
@@brandonporter550 but put a disclaimer that you're not well informed beforehand if you are that. There are far too many ignorant people spreading lies and half truths out of context. No need to add more idiocy to the discord.
I think faulty educational systems across the world result to people justifiying unjustifiable acts, from both Israel and it's surrounding groups, and are acting as if this is a football match cheering for one side, while sugarcoating it with "lives matter and the like", There won't be much of a difference if two football teams were absolutely hating for being known to be cheating or whatever, and this war. It doesn't affect the lives of each side's supporter so they can casually say whatever they want. while both sides, the PALESTINIAN people, not hamas or hexbollah, and the ISRAELI people, mostly just want peace.
when was a settlement popping up in lebanon from 1982 to 2000? jews have lived in hebron till 1929 and in gush etzion and old city of jerusalem till 1947(in the old city of jerusalem for 500 years). if the palestinians wanted 2 states solution- they had their chances from 1993 to 2009(and even under netanyahu).
@@alexanderbarkman7832 1) sheeha farms were taken from syria in 1967,not from lebanon. 2)it wasnt declared a buffer zone,israel annexed all of the golan heights in 1967 and people living there can get israeli citizenship. 3)syria had a chance getting the golan heights back in 1990s peace talks,like egypt got back sinai(again,not a buffer zone. egypt blocked suetz canal for israel ships in 1967,moved forces into sinai and paid the price for it,but got sinai back in 1967).
I don't understand what Hamas hoped to gain. I'm not talking about motivation, but just strategy. Did they expect other groups to rise up with 100% commitment? I've heard that they may have expected just that, but I don't know for sure.
Or maybe consider they had nothing to lose? Your question is the SAME as asking what the Jews had to gain by uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Thanks to Israel the Palestinians were all dead BEFORE Oct 7.
@@dochi1958 I'm not asking about right and wrong or justification. I'm just curious about what the larger strategy might be. Can't learn if I don't ask questions.
Ah, well, let me explain. First, they scored a major morale hit against the Israelis. No amount of bluster conceals that from knowing eyes, and some of us gentiles are still wielding such. Second, rather than continue the status quo - gradual dispossession via Israeli settlement colonization and gradual genocide via Israeli military operations - the attack forces Israel to show its true face, and the face it showed was not one that its allies are particularly fond of: a literally-religiously-supremacist genocidal regime, killing more civilians in the span of months than the Russo-Ukraine conflict did in nearly a decade, and calling for the total eradication of the Palestinian people from their ancestral lands. As an American, I can tell you without hesitation: I have never found Israel more detestable. Big win for Hamas there. Third, they drew Israel into a military conflict which, because of its nature and context, has a continually-increasing potential to see expansion across the region, which at present is not to Israel's interests, as there is another major war theater in play drawing resources away from Israel in the context of its most active international supporters. IOW: Israel is now in a war-footing, but the slave-states of the West which Israel typically obtains 'aid' (ie fealty) from are actively engaged in another war theater on their doorstep; which (bemusingly) almost-certainly originates in Russian interference in Israeli operations in Syria in 2013 lol Fourth, they have stirred this up at a time when there is a major US political election, and this creates an issue for various nominally-left-wing Zionist elements in that, should the right-wing figure in the American election win, he will undoubtedly support Israel to the hilt, and, because he is SO hated by the American liberal population, there is very real concern that their disdain for him will expand to encompass Israel/Zionism to an even-greater extent than is already the case and make it very, very difficult for American left-wing assets to support Israel while the right-wing candidate's support hangs as an albatross round their proverbial neck. IOW: If Trump wins he will support Israel, and because left-wing Americans hate Trump so much, they will hate Israel by extension if he jumps in to back them during what turns out to be an expanded military operation with massive media observation. To review... Hamas undermined Israeli morale/augmented Arab morale, undermined the status quo of gradual dispossession/genocide, drew Israel into a military conflict during a time when that is disadvantageous to them due to foreign logistic limitations, created a hazard for left-wing Zionist interests in the US/West... All things considered, pretty noice.
"Life of both sides of the border has been frozen in this kind of purgatory for over 4 months. It's hard to imagine being ripped from your life for that long." 3:24 Hey Cappy : I look forward to your episode about the establishment of Israel in 1948. Some people call it the "nakba". 75 years ago "It's hard to imagine being ripped from your life for that long" * PS do an episode on "Perfidy" as a war crime and IDF raids on hospitals. Look into it. Please?
It's very pro-Israel biased. If Hezbollah is "Islamic Terror Group" then IDF is "Jewish Terror Group". If he is gonna use inflammatory language, then apply it to all sides in the conflict. Otherwise he looks like a biased schmuck.
Hey dude, thanks a lot for the update ❤ Let's say, if a friend of mine was soon to be deployed in the area as part of the UN forces, would you make a video about the UNIFIL? They've been in the area for almost 20 years now, and being stuck between Tsahal and Hezbollah is clearly not a walk in the park. I think it's worth taking a look at it. Love you, keep up the good work 😘
It’s never been the UN’s mission to intercede in a hot war. That being said, I personally have seen the UN deteriorate into a useless body in regards to the prevention of international conflicts. If the organization does any good it’s in the charitable and health related missions.
Israel will not accept UN forces anywhere. Remember, there are currently 10,000 UN forces in Lebanon whose mandate is to ensure the Lebanese government has control over southern Lebanon so they can keep the peace. They are also there to keep Hezbolah away from the border. They have done nothing and in the intervening time since 2005, Hezbolah has, like Hamas in Gaza, only used the time to build up their offensive capabilities. Israel has vowed to not return to the dangerous illusion of peace before Oct 7.
@@Sven73524 🤣🤣 they got wiped in 06, had to run w it h their tail between their legs. Why do you think they won’t engage them the way they do in Gaz? Because they know HZB is not the one to play with
@@PIBoost What battle, Which conflict, how many casualties on both sides, both factions strategic Goals, how can I just believe that Israel got their ass beat without any source?
Nassrlaha said that their objective is to keep Israeli forces preoccupied in order to save Hamas. Considering that at this moment 75% of Hamas forces are either dead or fatally injured, and it's a matter of time before Israel finishes them off, as well as the fact that Israel has already released most of its reserve forces and pulled back most of its army from Gaza, I would say he lost.
@@tiglishnobody8750 Israel claim 10k dead. Estimate of injured in a way that prevents from ever fights are about an other 15k-20k . Those are official numbers from the Israeli government, if that’s not a credible source for you than ok, let’s say 6k as Hamas say are dead, you can imagine how many are badly injured by your own.
@@galhadad341 Like Israel who can't tell the different between militants or civilians like claims they killed thousands in Lebanon 2006 while in international source shows that it like 250 HZ were killed while the rest of the others are civilians. Even US intenl finds hard to trust Israel's words
Israel dreads fighting Hezbollah, would mean fighting armed adults on the ground as opposed to bombing children from the air. Israel learned this the hard way in 2006.
Lots of people in Lebanon are on their last nerve with Hez. The munitions explosion in Beirut was truly horrific. And Hez took a lot of damage as mercenaries for Syria’s Assad regime. If they overplay their hand, the Lebanese civil war may re ignite.
Lebanon is made up of 3 factions. The Shias, the Sunnis, and the Christian Maronites. The Christians are no position to wage war since most of the young ones are immigrating to the West by using their Christian card. The Shias have Hezbollah who are very powerful given the fact that they are able to go up against Israel. The Sunni's original backers were the GCC countries but those guys have lost the will to fight after taking a number of Ls against the Shias militias baked by Iran and the on top of that many of their own militias were getting closer to the Muslim Brotherhood which is an existential threat to the monarchies. So the Sunnis don't have anyone to provide arms to fight to they are also out of the picture. Overall, there is not going to be a civil war in Lebanon.
@thundershirt1 Wrong, not lots, only the people that are known to blame Hezbollah for anything based on nothing but hersey, the same people that have lied about basically anything, including faking a kidnapping attempt and glueing it to the ass of Hezbollah. There is no proof that the ammonium belonged to Hezbollah, you have proof, provide it, otherwise you are just another person trying to glue anything to Hezbollah without evidence, everything being claimed as evidence right now, has been nothing but normal people throwing speculations and heresy's as facts. They are repeating the same thing with rafic hariri assassination, nothing has changed, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Moreover, It was not munitions, it was ammonium nitrate in its raw form that looks like salt, which is also used for breaking large rocks in Quarries, and in Lebanon, there is a very huge booming Query business that has been eating huge hills and ruining the scenery. Additionally, there is a very important information that most of you in their blind enthusiasm to exploit a yet another thing to glue to Hezbollah seem to be ignoring, these ammonium nitrate might also be for the Syrian Rebels to make makeshift bombs and rockets, because we know for a fact that a group of Western/Gulf aligned Lebanese political parties were smuggling guns and explosive materials to the rebels in Syria, we also know for a fact that the Lebanese army has discovered and raided several weapon depot for Jihadi groups in Lebanon with links to the Syrian rebels and some political parties in Lebanon that would you guess what they had in large quantities, makeshift bombs in very huge numbers, and make shift rockets. Nope, attempts were made in the past to drag Hezbollah to start a civil war, which saw western/gulf aligned groups kill Lebanese civilians, but attempts failed because they could drag Hezbollah, and Hezbollah is aware that some do want to drag them to a civil war.
Before US, UK came to middle east separate it into small countries and planted Jewish State because of “Balfour promise” If Ottoman empire didn’t lose the war UK would not be able to do any shit in Middle east, And what has been done by force it will be gone sooner or later. Just watch and see
There are no "level-headed guys" in the middle east. They're all religious nuts one faith or another. It's just that one (arguably two with the Saudis) has a culture that produces a technological civilization, and the rest have a culture that never progresses beyond endless infighting and pining for heaven.
As someone who is living 5 or 6 km away from the kibbutz you tqlked about hanita everytime i go to sleep i hear canon fire the iron dome goes off once or twice a day and we are on the quitter side
@@Doomer_OptimistI guess you don't know about ethnic persecution of blacks in North African states like Tunisia? Dubai basically has people in indentured servitude, Pakistan has what amounts to legalized slavery... but yeah Israel. Let's focus on Israel and ignore the wonton abuse of human rights across the Muslim world. Israel bad.
Many Lebanese in the suburb's of Sydney, people of Christian and Islamic faith, if they get on here together so well why cant they do it over in Lebanon?
Calling Hezbollah an Iranian proxy is like calling Israel or Ukraine American proxies. That kind of terminology doesn't help people understand the complex and layered interests that guide their relationship. Also, Hanita kibbutz was purposefully established in 1938 as a fort and deterrent against Arab resistance to the founding of Israel, then as a first line of defense 'trigger' settlement along the border with Lebanon. It is meant to be vulnerable and meant to act as early warning. That's why it's so close to the border, it is literally founded as a civilian occupied shield, i.e., human shield. This is why so many kibbutzim are located so close to these contested borders.
You so wrong,hzb and hms not friends at all,in fact their leaders don’t like each others at all,the only thing who make them together it’s their feelings to Israel. Tho only reason they join to attack Israel it’s because Iran told them to do it until the war in Gaza will stop,otherwise they don’t have any reason to support HMS That literally proxy of Iran. HZB have huge ability to hurt Israel,if they was really want to help HMS they was ruin the big cities in Israel in the first week,but they knew Israel will do the same in Beirut and they will not sacrifice themselves only because HMS so for now they attack only 5-10 times each day just to show to big dad in Iran they helping them.
Thanks for the video, a lot of great info. P.S. If you have a chance, it would be appreciated if could do a video comparing the KAAN fighter jet vs the F-35. They look similar
The civilians in the west bank are constantly being forced out of their homes, being killed, and being arrested without charge. They're attacked daily by armed settlers and the IDF, even though there's no Hamas presence in the west bank. Nearly 500 Palestinians were killed just this year in the west bank , including over 100 children. Also close to 1000 people have been taken prisoner since 2023, with many of them being minors (children), and many of these people are subject to abuse, torture, and sexual violence in captivity.
Saying 'we will respect a ceasefire' doesn't mean co-ordination when goals are already aligned. Some parts of the Israeli government have been gung-ho claiming they could do to Beirut what they have done to Gaza, seems like IDF General Staff have had to be the grown ups in the room. A withdrawal by only one side from the border seems unlikely but an escalation will only happen if IDF decides, if Hezbollah wanted to do more it would have already done so.
The idea behind the doctorine is that because Israel is so small and relatively small population it must win quickly so the doctorine is to quickly go on the offence and not get bogged down in defensive wars. Of course the ignorant haters will latch on to this with their hate
Chris, good presentation. But what comes to the Buffer Zone, there are already 10.000 peacekeepers under UN flag protecting the Lebanese Army in order to keep the south of the country safe. Key element in that UN resolution. Think about their role in the conflict. Do they have a role?
they were supose to keep hezbollah out south not only "protect the lebanese army". there's been many official complaints on the security council over it, so israel will advance (if comes to it), hezbollah will too and they'll need to retreat. 10k troops of the UN would get wiped in a day between the IDF and hezbollah. it's 100k on one side and lets say 200k on the other with 10k blue helmets on the middle. they only have apcs with 50cals mostly too
israeli here, they are boy scouts who send reports to the corrupted UN , they aren't allowed to shot or arrest anyone. it's a waste of money to the UN and the west.
You are clearly putting a lot of effort into research, and presenting in a clear and simple format, including hilarious mispronunciations of some place names, etc. (like Ashdod becomes Ashod). I do miss your hilarious comedy edits where you insert yourself into a scene with the protagonists. Generally though I have to say HOOAH to your more unbiased approach to Israel which takes balls in this poisonous media/political space right now. I hope you get time to visit I us in Israel some day.
I think they purposefully use mispronunciations to boost comments correcting the errors. They happen in virtually every episode and, you’re correct, often they are quite funny.
Or go to the West Bank, Gaza, or Lebanon and actually see what’s happening. He gets the Israeli narrative here in America with our media and politicians.
Great point that Hezbollah isn't inviting any foreign journalists to embed with them. I wonder if Hezbollah doesn't want anyone to independently confirm or deny Hezbollah's claims?
They did have friendly journals with them before Israel targeted them. Israel does the same in that they sanitize any and all journalism from their end and won’t even allow foreign journalists in Gaza, likely bc they dont want ppl to see what they’ve done.
Or maybe they don't want journalists with them so that when the soldiers are targeted the journalists don't get killed and Israel will claim that hezbollah is using 'human shields'.
Hey genius. Maybe any journalist that accepts joining Hezbollah would be...wait for it...considered a terrorist sympathizer, and probably not hood for any future career...or freedom to not be imprisoned.
They don't need to "embed" with Hezbollah as they have free access to the Border area.. unlike in Israel who wants to hide everything and prevents Journalists accessing the Lebanon border or entering Gaza etc... I wonder why? The sad truth though is that many journalists brave enough to use this access, get killed by Israel. The Israelis are desperate to make sure that only their version of the story gets told. So many brave journalists have been killed since October 7th.... and all by Israel.
Excellent video. Very factual and, just as importantly, objective. I don't know if you mentioned them, but the UN vehicles shown towards the end belong to UNIFIL - a UN "peacekeeping" force officially meant to ensure Hezbollah abide by the terms of Resolution 1701 and keep Hezbollah north of the Litani River. As far as I can tell they contribute absolutely zero - what are they there for? Does anybody know more on this?
UNIFIL like UNWRA are both creatures of the UN. The UN has been openly hostile to Israel since the 1960's. Both of the above bodies work in unison to destabilize Israel. They have no other reason to exist.
so, the troops are there. hezbollah ignore it. when israel defends itself they will just fly over or shoot over them and formally complain to the UN when are attacked on the "demilitarized zone". which does nothing of course so if something happens both sides will just ignore it as they already do but legally is in effect (which means jack sh!t) this happened in other wars, israel just handle the documentation and warnings to the security council (that were made over the years) "i've warned the UN xx times and xx actor and nothing was done, so now i feel free to proceed" and attacks
Anyone who takes the UN seriously isn't really paying attention. Anyone who thinks the UN armed forces have any meaningful role, in any conflict anywhere, must actively avoid reading or listening and have their head stuck somewhere dark.
Hezbollah in fighting to maintain Iran's puppet in Syria has lost a substantial number of fighters, Lebanese scholar Hanin Ghadar has also noted that the finances needed to prosecute that conflict took a toll on the social services Hezbollah provides to its population, so a long dragged out fight with Israel especially one in which Israel uses a quickly falling apart Lebanese economy to its advantage could end badly for Hezbollah. The intent in this conflict for Israel would be decimate Hezbollah as a fighting force.
@@tiglishnobody8750 It didn't the 1990-2000 presence in Lebanon wasn't aimed at annihilating Shia militias but to back the Free Lebanon State, and the 2006 war's aim was retaliatory in response to the kidnapping of IDF personnel not aimed at Hezbollah's annihilation. Israel hasn't fought a war with Hezbollah where's its aim is it's complete destruction.
@@Kroshan2 Mysterious? Smoked? Dude Israel ran Southern Lebanon from the 80s to the 2000s before withdrawing, Hezbollah lost around 1,276 killed (1982-2000) vs Israel which lost less than 559 soldiers. If that's getting smoked when for two decades another country is running your entire southern territory, your definition of getting smoked is really poor.
@@GuyShōtō And you still lost as even the South Lebanon conflict ended in 2000 with HZ victory, isn't expelling HZ from South Lebanon's main goal? If Israel give up try crush HZ and leave South Lebanon, more like you just smoked yourself
got a source for different numbers? as far as i remember the resistance has refrained from putting out concrete kill-count. Though they did say casualties are definitely higher and used their attack monitoring as proof that the IOF figures aren't accurate.
1:50 if the colonel is saying IDF is an offensive task force and they have to be taught to defend then there is something wrong, afaik, D stand for defense
In history a great offense has always been a very good defense, its just natural behaviour, why wage the war on your land when you can wage it in the other guys land
Credit to the photo and photographer at 8:06! That one is a banger. Worn-out IDF and their vehicles and a killer sunset in the muzzle brake of a tanks canon...Love the channel this just caught my attention.
I'm Lebanese i had friends in the north i got my landlord to rent out vacant rooms for them for the time being. This is horrendous how 1 terrorist group can control a beautiful country. All i want is peace and friendship with Israel and many other nations in the region ffs
Excellent report as usual Spare Parts Army. It sure sems like Israel is seriously considering using its army while it is mobilized and operationally vetted in urban combat to go after Hezbollah, I have heard this chain of thought for months.
They are probably waiting until they lower military operations in Gaza before full force on Lebanon and are willing to have a diplomatic solution until then
Love your videos! Any chance you can do a video on the Chinese threat in the pacific with Australia and USA. It seems like this is gonna happen sooner than people realise.
Truth facts: Israel is more obsessed with civilian massacres, rather thn liquidating the terrorists... Since innocents are killed.. Little ones are disuniting from their families. Too much soreness even to think of. SAD😢😢
Israel has military and technological supremacy. They are extremely sophisticated on the battlefield had tend to over-perform--as in Swords of Iron. DO NOT MESS WITH THEM.
@@Rampart.X "Homemade weapons". *Points to obvious Iranian smuggled weapons* It's almost like everyone forgot how a war is fought. Cities harboring armories, staging areas and if Hamas' weak propaganda is to be believed, manufacturing facilities, are valid military targets. The London Blitz, the Allied bombing campaign over Germany, the firebombing of Japan, the Vietnam War carpet bombing, Operation Shock and Awe in Iraq. Civilian casualties are a tragic, yet expected factor in an open war.
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All Wars are Fake as you well know.
Doesn't your own comment prove that wrong? The stuff your saying man, it's something else.@@officecomputer8887
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Do you ask rhetorical questions ? X-D
@@Quan-gotta_go - So, would you rather be on the side of the terrorist organizations known as Hamas and Hezbollah?! Perhaps you are also a strong supporter of Osama Bin Laden and/or Al Quida? Here is a bit of information for you: All of the above noted terrorist organizations hate America and would love to harm Americans just like Al Quida did on September 11th, 2001, or just like Hezbollah did to over 240 American marines in Beirut in November 1983.
I dont think anyone who has an advisory role should have duel citizenship
I don't think anyone who works at the federal level should have duel citizenship.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusketi don’t think foreign powers should be able to start lobbies that invest in our government’s elections
Dude, Lebanese and Palestinians is "Semiticier" than modern Israeli. Their origins are from Europe.
@richardroe5078 nice way to dog whistle that you are an NPC
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket agree.
Another notable fact is that there are strong ties between Hezbollah leaders and Iran, since there are even marriages between them and daughters of generals and vice versa.
Israel Already tried in 2006, ran away from Lebanon like US did from Kabul
Aren’t they a proxy group of Iran?
@@H-to-O because he’s scared of what could happen.
That’s really interesting, they’re connected like in the medieval times lol
@@mahatmadutcheastcompany6726 The US or Israel had zero asppiration to occupy either side permanently and left when they wanted to. The Taliban was literally pulling security for the US while they left so they weren't chasing anyone.
And I'm sure you were espousing the same rhetoric before the Gaza invasion, but now bitching and moaning about Genocide. Israel will use the same tactics in Southern Lebanon where they'll just simply evacuate your shields, I mean civilians, and level your infrastructure and watch you surrender in droves.
That conflict has much wider implications than the usual Middle Eastern ones. Russia is Iran's key ally and thinks it will benefit from any kind of distractions from it's war of conquest against Ukraine and the wider West. It will happily pour fuel over any regional conflict in efforts to light them up. That is the one key driver for an escalation you missed I think, otherwise a very good video and thank you for that.
Tbh that is excatly the point. Guns dealer from the snowy east and defense contractor from shiny summer west need the conflict to keep their business run
Russia is not the only country adding fuel, the US and UK are as well.
nobody is really hoping for peace except the poor people whose homes are on the battleground. everyone else is seeking influence or profit.
I cant see why the US would be "adding fuel", Its not like they really want to support israel for further battles, they arent supplying israel for a war, more like for light support. More then that the US is even trying to stop israel lately telling israel to stop fighting in gaza@@theoverunderthinker
Putin actually held a meeting with Hamas and Fatah to unite the palestinian factions.
@@adityasurya420sounds like you watched the SC Laura Ingraham / Trump Town Hall last night. Stinger missiles from AZ and small arms from the Inland Empire, to the shells of PA, and Colorado's eye in the sky... Sounds like a country song right
Peace and prosperity to the people of this region
Sadly never gonna happen
As long as the state of Israel is lead by right wingers, there will never be peace there, because that is against their interests.
Imagine you're in the business of selling house alarms, or guns, but then suddenly all crime disappeared, you would run out of business. Well, Likhud etc. literally get elected on the promise of keeping Israel safe(lol, so much for that btw), so making sure the Israeli people always has a reason to be afraid is crucial. That is why Netanyahu has built Hamas and why they are constantly occupying and antagonizing their neighbours.
For the Israelis, sure.
@@everydayisabadday or Palestine
Amen 🙏🕊️
I think when I want to know what is really going on you are a far better source than any of the main stream news sources.
Israel Already tried in 2006, ran away from Lebanon like US did from Kabul
@@LawAndTheorycounting bodies in asymmetrical warfare is a fallacy
@@LawAndTheory “the numbers show that all that are dead are combatants” What numbers, the ones Israel spoonfed you? What a ridiculous assertion made with no evidence might I add. There’s no point in arguing. Nonsensical take.
@@LawAndTheory yes cause apparently lebanese militants dont have the right to stand on their own land while israeli terrorist forces could invade our lands and slaughter civilians and go toruture them in prisons. When your dealing with an enemy that shows no sense of humanity within them, it reaches to conflicts as such. israel's neighbours are not the problem, its israel itself..
@@LawAndTheory Every other conflict in the past between these two parties have resulted in accurate body counts from the Gaza ministry of health, confirmed by Israel too. Enough said
bro does sponsorships on real time war news hahaha
How bizarre. In my experience if you plan for all eventualities excepy one, you might get the one you never thought possibe.
The best intelligence agency in the world didnt know this was going to happen inside of territory they control? They wanted this. It may not have been planned but they get to do what theyve always wantwd lol
As an Iranian born, USA citizen, I want peace for my brothers and sisters in Palestine (Gaza west bank) and in Israel. We need to get along and not kill each other. Peace and love!
We all want that but it is a 2 way street.
If your neighbour kept attacking your home over years, you would be angry even if you practiced as much peace as possible. If your neighbour than ended up brutally killing your child, would you still let it slide without saying enough is enough, attacking the neighbour inside it to end the threat to the rest of your family for good? You can try to spare the innocent members of that house but what if that evil neighbour hides behind their family while attacking you? You let him kill you? You know if you let the neighbour go and die they will come after the rest of your family. What would you do? Would you take your chance in ending the threat with the hostage being harmed or killed as well?
Now you may call the cops, but what if you can't because you are the government/police responsible for your people (family).
free palestine..
from HAMAS
@@albertbresca8904 If palestinians do not do that, Israel will do it for them and will cost them much more.
Yeah, normal people want peace. But then normal people adopt insane views of how a country should be ruled and become extremists. The extremists want to abuse power with their harsh laws, rights abuses and controlling ways. The regions dominant religion IS the problem. As Cappy points out: The "Revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran uses Shia Islam as cultural connective tissue between themselves and Shia based militant groups in the region. The majority of Palestinians are Shia muslims. Hamas is a Shia based militant group." Why is this religion so hell bent on extremist control and taking away basic liberties?
@@SirOpinesALot Hamas is not shia and never was. You clearly don't know what you're talking about.
Thanks!
It's fascinating just how different the two conflicts between Hamas and Hezbollah are. Hamas acts as they are motivated largely by their ideology, with with no real obligations to fulfilling the interests of it's own citizens. While Hezbollah, are far more calculating and pragmatic in their conflicts. This goes to show that what might apply in one conflict between Israel might not apply for another.
Hezbollah is a less Ideological and more policy driven group but they are both at their core built on an ideological foundation of theocratic islam.
@@dominuslogik484
That's a load of bollocks. Hezbollah primarily floats on a pool of drug trafficking (mainly taxing it) run exclusively by Palestinians because the Lebanese don't exactly like their occupiers and refuse to let Palestinians work for them.
This ensures a steady supply of cheap dumb manpower for Hezbollah that'll do whatever you want for a few bucks.
Religion is a nice coathanger to put it all on, but at the core it's just about money. If the Lebanese and Palestinians refuse to take drugs starting tomorrow, Hezbollah is broke before 2025.
HMAS is not theoretical Islam their Sunnis which makes Iran hesitant about saving them
Their situations are not the same.
Israel Already tried in 2006, ran away from Lebanon like US did from Kabul
Chris, I don't disagree with your assessment. I think it's pretty spot-on. I've been running around Northern Israel for the past 4 days. There's a whole sense of calm here that I have not seen in Prior conflicts. The one thing that resonates amongst Israelis, is the return of the hostages. Protests here in Tel Aviv and people lining the roads in the north, all reflect the return of the hostages. The return of the hostages is more important than anything else at this point in time. although that can't be construed as Israel being weak. At the military base I was allowed to go to, every one of the troopers is committed getting back to hostages and some sort of diplomatic solution. It's clear, they think they have seriously hurt Hamas, but not killed it yet.
See also: The Hannibal Directive.
@@hobz3816 Please read what the Hannibal Directive actually means before you use it to insinuate that Israel does not care about their people....
Also , the Hannibal Directive was revoked a couple of years ago.
@Roy_Osovsky the Hannibal direct means shooting everything on sight so no valuables fall to the enemy. On Israeli radio on oct 15th a helicopter pilot admitted to that order being given and the death count was suspiciously lowered to 1200
@@Kroshan2 that's definitely NOT what it means ... Google it and you'll see . And about that helicopter pilot , I don't know what he supposedly "admitted " , but I'm willing to bet it was taken out of context to paint a different picture.
@@Roy_Osovsky S.S. Patria 1942?
Love these videos . presenter is learning and sharing as he goes along.
It doesn't matter what side you take, what matters is the situation is absolutely fucked. That piece of land will always see war.
Sad but true.
That’s what I’m saying
No, there can be peace, but people (i am not talking about Israeli's or arabs) are too blind and others are not interested in it...
Obviously the solution is to reinstate the kingdom of Jerusalem and move the Vatican over there
Can't argue with that. I don't know why other than some spiritual vortex of contention in the dimensions. There are areas on earth that are just not logical and this area is one of them
We have to decide what comes first, alliance or fairness. There's an ethical debt to choosing the first. The selective treatment is painful. It's as if the Palestinian suffering doesn't even touch the Is**eli allies. At 3:30 it's mentioned that "its hard to imagine being ripped from your life for four months". I can just think of the Palestinian children, whose suffering dwarves anything on the other side for 75 years. Anyone interested in the ethical justification of this should look up videos by Miko Peled, who's father fought in 1947, was a celebrated general of the 1967 war and grandfather Avraham Katsnelson, signed Israel's Declaration of Independence. Miko's father, the Major General, realized that they were the oppressors and Miko continues speaking out.
4:40 When has israel ever exercised restraint? bombing multiple neighboring countries or committing a genocide is the opposite of exercised restraint. -.-
brainwashed by libs
I love how pro-hamas supporters ignore Hamas war crimes
Israeli Defense Force is usually an attacking force that had to learn how to be defensive. Does that seem a little strange given their name?
It's what George Orwell called "doublespeak".
That is such a silly assumption... how else do you defend... by asking? You want the idf to defend like its enemies "defend"?
The main battle tactics of the IDF is "hatira lemaga" which means "strive for contact". That's what he means by having an attacking force form of combat.
You can see it in all air and ground manuveres.
In the 6 day war, Israel used a surprise attack to immobile Egypt's air force.
@@NadavLanesmanof course he’s not meaning that,he try to say Israel is the bad side in the story who attacks first.
You talk about Hatira lemaga which shows the bravery of IDF soldiers unlike their enemies who running and abandon their friends on the battlefield,which Israel will never do to their soldiers.
In the six days war Israel didn’t attack first they only took huge advantage to ruin the Egypt airforce.
Israel start to attack only after Egypt kick UN forces from Sinai and sending a lot Egypt units close to Israel border, they also blocked the shipping to Israel
Iraq forces going inside Jordan to the border with Israel which is clearly sign of war,like always Israel defending herself,stop saying BS about Hatira Lemaga which shows the bravery of IDF soldiers.
Liar
The days when these regional powers had the military might to take on Israel in a full scale war are long gone.
No actually, the arabs are much more organized, powerful and determined than ever. Israel isn’t ready for a full on war. It’s been a few months since the gaza war started, and Israel has yet to paralyze Hamas logistic and tunnel system.
@@jnoub2947and also wrong hamass is hurting now and they are being picked up in foreign countries where they thought they were safe
finally this can end
@@jnoub2947How are they more organised than ever? Iraq has been deciminated by 3 decades of wars, both conventional and civil. They are done. Syria is similar. Jordan hates Palestine. The gulf monarchies are indifferent. Egypt wants nothing to do with it. The support base of Palestine comprises lukewarm Hezbollah efforts and the Houthis. That's it.
@@SpaceCoffee700 no they aren’t lol. Hamas is still posting videos on telegram of them hitting merkava tanks in ambushes
@@jnoub2947Syria is dead, egypt is broke, Jordan is relatively disarmed and Saudi want Israeli tech. Who is left to be a threat other than the rabid dogs like Hamas and hezbollah?
9:50 YOU KLOTZ! It's "Ashdod", not "Ashad"!
You're doing great work ❤
Dude This is better, more honest, news reporting than anything in mainstream media.
🤣
oh boy! Who's gonna tell him?
You are ridiculous
You must be Israeli
Great video, just need to correct a few things as a person who lives in Nabatieh (south Lebanon)
1) Nabatieh is a city and not a village, it is the capital of the Nabatieh governorate
2) The strike on Nabatieh was from a drone that fired 2 shots, one on the ground floor that killed Abbas al Dibis and 2 other Hezbollah fighters and one on the first floor that killed a family of 7, including 3 children as well as 4 syrian refugees.
3) The situation has been in fact escalating here, as Nabatieh governorate was targeted multiple times last week which had not happened the prior 4 months (since we are roughly 20km from the border) and yesterday Ghazieh was targeted (a city near Saida, much deeper than Nabatieh, roughly 40km from the border) in which they destroyed a steel factory and a generator factory, which the IDF claims that it is 2 Hezbollah missile warehouses
4) HZB has annouced so far that 205 of its soldiers died in the clashes
We are all on edge here and hope the situation does not escalate any further, but both the IDF and HZB have been increasing their threats in their recent speeches.
Thank you for the info from the ground. This random person on the internet is hoping you stay safe. Good luck
Right.
"Steel & generator" factory.
Right.
So,why the secondary explosions??
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises what secondary explosions? If you mean the fire it is because of all the fuel stored in the factory. Anyway you can check for yourself from the pictures of the place both before and after the explosion. If it was a weapon warehouse the. HZB wouldnt have let the government anywhere near it to extinguish the fire, they would have done it themselves like they done many yimes in the past.
Eitherway HZB can claim whatever they want and the IDF will claim whatever they want, the truth is always somewhere inbetween and the only people that suffer are us regular citizen...
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The factory had fuel depots, those tend to burn for a while. If it were truly an HZB warehouse then they wouldn't have allowed first responders anywhere near it like they always tend to do.
@@Nabjab94the videos of that "steel and generator" factory clearly see rockets flying from the mushroom cloud... what steel beam flies striaght out a explosion??
Lebanon has right to defend itself
Hezbollah is not Lebanon.
So does Israel. Let’s see who is stronger
@@HobGoblin1999Israel is weak lebanon is strong🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧
@@I_loveJesussomuch Well... Israel has the one of the best elite troops ever, they are fighting for survival and have financial funding from the US...
The last 2points maybe. Elite fighters my ass. These guys are just fighting a brigade with yassine rockets. No advance weapons nothings just a few rockets and still can do anything. Try to flip the military power between hamas and israel and you ll see the difference
In book does tell them to wear diapers 😂I think they will need them 😂😂😂😂
Nice breakdown for those of us not up to speed on the Middle East situation.
You mean anyone under the age OF 45 !
You mean “one sided” breakdown that most likely caused you to be an ignoramus ?
Yeah it's not a breakdown, just an update for those who have been following the story
I miss Lebanon when it was Chrisitan and we had good relations
40% da população libanesa é CRISTÃ. Ponha no tradutor do UA-cam.
sounds like racist to me.
We miss the time when there was no apartheid state in Palestine.
yeah it was peaceful then
You must be older than my @ss
It could be surmised that when Israel recently asked the UN to enforce 1701, and knowing the UN won’t (or can’t), they would have a legal casus beli.
why Israel didn't enforce such thing before 1948?
oh because it didn't exist and the colonization came here and plant them.
believe it or not: it's just a matter of time.
@@yahoussein100 You can call it what you want they are there and they are not going anywhere.
No colonization
@@yahoussein100Right, we will defend ourselves from Arab-Muslim colonizers.
@@sinnoboy0000We will indeed see.
I suspect that no one expected Israel to respond as strongly as they did, which caused Hez and Iran to hesitate.
What do I think!?! I think the world is trending back towards chaos after a period of relative peace and IDK what to do or think about it
Speak your opinion honestly, even in situations where you could face social ostracizing. That’s the minimum I would say. Hope more people follow suit.
@@brandonporter550 but put a disclaimer that you're not well informed beforehand if you are that. There are far too many ignorant people spreading lies and half truths out of context. No need to add more idiocy to the discord.
I think faulty educational systems across the world result to people justifiying unjustifiable acts, from both Israel and it's surrounding groups, and are acting as if this is a football match cheering for one side, while sugarcoating it with "lives matter and the like", There won't be much of a difference if two football teams were absolutely hating for being known to be cheating or whatever, and this war. It doesn't affect the lives of each side's supporter so they can casually say whatever they want. while both sides, the PALESTINIAN people, not hamas or hexbollah, and the ISRAELI people, mostly just want peace.
Problem with buffer zones is settlements pop up inside them lol.
when was a settlement popping up in lebanon from 1982 to 2000? jews have lived in hebron till 1929 and in gush etzion and old city of jerusalem till 1947(in the old city of jerusalem for 500 years). if the palestinians wanted 2 states solution- they had their chances from 1993 to 2009(and even under netanyahu).
Problem with the internet is that any jackass can offer up his uninformed opinions and present them as "fact".
@@netanelzionthere are settlements in the occupied sheeba farms area.
@@alexanderbarkman7832 1) sheeha farms were taken from syria in 1967,not from lebanon.
2)it wasnt declared a buffer zone,israel annexed all of the golan heights in 1967 and people living there can get israeli citizenship.
3)syria had a chance getting the golan heights back in 1990s peace talks,like egypt got back sinai(again,not a buffer zone. egypt blocked suetz canal for israel ships in 1967,moved forces into sinai and paid the price for it,but got sinai back in 1967).
@@netanelzion So you are admitting that Israel is ILLEGALLY occupying land that they have NO rights to under ALL international laws.
War is the real enemy here !!
I don't understand what Hamas hoped to gain. I'm not talking about motivation, but just strategy. Did they expect other groups to rise up with 100% commitment? I've heard that they may have expected just that, but I don't know for sure.
Or maybe consider they had nothing to lose? Your question is the SAME as asking what the Jews had to gain by uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Thanks to Israel the Palestinians were all dead BEFORE Oct 7.
@@dochi1958what??
@@dochi1958 I'm not asking about right and wrong or justification. I'm just curious about what the larger strategy might be. Can't learn if I don't ask questions.
Ah, well, let me explain.
First, they scored a major morale hit against the Israelis. No amount of bluster conceals that from knowing eyes, and some of us gentiles are still wielding such.
Second, rather than continue the status quo - gradual dispossession via Israeli settlement colonization and gradual genocide via Israeli military operations - the attack forces Israel to show its true face, and the face it showed was not one that its allies are particularly fond of: a literally-religiously-supremacist genocidal regime, killing more civilians in the span of months than the Russo-Ukraine conflict did in nearly a decade, and calling for the total eradication of the Palestinian people from their ancestral lands. As an American, I can tell you without hesitation: I have never found Israel more detestable. Big win for Hamas there.
Third, they drew Israel into a military conflict which, because of its nature and context, has a continually-increasing potential to see expansion across the region, which at present is not to Israel's interests, as there is another major war theater in play drawing resources away from Israel in the context of its most active international supporters. IOW: Israel is now in a war-footing, but the slave-states of the West which Israel typically obtains 'aid' (ie fealty) from are actively engaged in another war theater on their doorstep; which (bemusingly) almost-certainly originates in Russian interference in Israeli operations in Syria in 2013 lol
Fourth, they have stirred this up at a time when there is a major US political election, and this creates an issue for various nominally-left-wing Zionist elements in that, should the right-wing figure in the American election win, he will undoubtedly support Israel to the hilt, and, because he is SO hated by the American liberal population, there is very real concern that their disdain for him will expand to encompass Israel/Zionism to an even-greater extent than is already the case and make it very, very difficult for American left-wing assets to support Israel while the right-wing candidate's support hangs as an albatross round their proverbial neck. IOW: If Trump wins he will support Israel, and because left-wing Americans hate Trump so much, they will hate Israel by extension if he jumps in to back them during what turns out to be an expanded military operation with massive media observation.
To review...
Hamas undermined Israeli morale/augmented Arab morale, undermined the status quo of gradual dispossession/genocide, drew Israel into a military conflict during a time when that is disadvantageous to them due to foreign logistic limitations, created a hazard for left-wing Zionist interests in the US/West... All things considered, pretty noice.
@@dochi1958 Why did you capitalize "same"? I'm concerned I'm missing your point.
"Life of both sides of the border has been frozen in this kind of purgatory for over 4 months. It's hard to imagine being ripped from your life for that long."
3:24 Hey Cappy : I look forward to your episode about the establishment of Israel in 1948. Some people call it the "nakba". 75 years ago
"It's hard to imagine being ripped from your life for that long" * PS do an episode on "Perfidy" as a war crime and IDF raids on hospitals. Look into it. Please?
Mark Normand really knows his current world events
Nope, Israel Already tried in 2006, ran away from Lebanon like US did from Kabul
No he doesn’t
Woooow
Cant unsee it now!
You mean Kevin Hart?
A brilliant and informative report cheers
He knows jack sh%t tbh
It's very pro-Israel biased. If Hezbollah is "Islamic Terror Group" then IDF is "Jewish Terror Group". If he is gonna use inflammatory language, then apply it to all sides in the conflict. Otherwise he looks like a biased schmuck.
Hey dude, thanks a lot for the update ❤
Let's say, if a friend of mine was soon to be deployed in the area as part of the UN forces, would you make a video about the UNIFIL?
They've been in the area for almost 20 years now, and being stuck between Tsahal and Hezbollah is clearly not a walk in the park. I think it's worth taking a look at it.
Love you, keep up the good work 😘
UNIFIL will do nothing
It’s never been the UN’s mission to intercede in a hot war. That being said, I personally have seen the UN deteriorate into a useless body in regards to the prevention of international conflicts. If the organization does any good it’s in the charitable and health related missions.
@@Chiller11The UN truly has become useless as far as interceding in war.
They're basically a bunch of puppets
Israel will not accept UN forces anywhere. Remember, there are currently 10,000 UN forces in Lebanon whose mandate is to ensure the Lebanese government has control over southern Lebanon so they can keep the peace. They are also there to keep Hezbolah away from the border. They have done nothing and in the intervening time since 2005, Hezbolah has, like Hamas in Gaza, only used the time to build up their offensive capabilities. Israel has vowed to not return to the dangerous illusion of peace before Oct 7.
Izzy wants no problems with HZB, just ask them what happened in 06 🤣🤣
Learn how to properly write.
@deepseashark5951 where did Israel loose?
Thats why your leaders are hiding from izzy in caves?
@@Sven73524 🤣🤣 they got wiped in 06, had to run w it h their tail between their legs. Why do you think they won’t engage them the way they do in Gaz? Because they know HZB is not the one to play with
@@PIBoost What battle,
Which conflict, how many casualties on both sides, both factions strategic Goals, how can I just believe that Israel got their ass beat without any source?
15:04 I think you mean "Plausible deniability," not "probable," but it sort of works as "probable" too.
Nassrlaha said that their objective is to keep Israeli forces preoccupied in order to save Hamas. Considering that at this moment 75% of Hamas forces are either dead or fatally injured, and it's a matter of time before Israel finishes them off, as well as the fact that Israel has already released most of its reserve forces and pulled back most of its army from Gaza, I would say he lost.
It says they lost 6k which is believed be 40k so it not really 75%
Source: I made it up
@@tiglishnobody8750
Israel claim 10k dead. Estimate of injured in a way that prevents from ever fights are about an other 15k-20k . Those are official numbers from the Israeli government, if that’s not a credible source for you than ok, let’s say 6k as Hamas say are dead, you can imagine how many are badly injured by your own.
@@galhadad341 but the campaign has inflicted so much civilian damage, they couldn’t have asked for a better recruiting drive.
@@galhadad341 Like Israel who can't tell the different between militants or civilians like claims they killed thousands in Lebanon 2006 while in international source shows that it like 250 HZ were killed while the rest of the others are civilians. Even US intenl finds hard to trust Israel's words
Israel dreads fighting Hezbollah, would mean fighting armed adults on the ground as opposed to bombing children from the air. Israel learned this the hard way in 2006.
Lots of people in Lebanon are on their last nerve with Hez. The munitions explosion in Beirut was truly horrific. And Hez took a lot of damage as mercenaries for Syria’s Assad regime. If they overplay their hand, the Lebanese civil war may re ignite.
Israel Already tried in 2006, ran away from Lebanon like US did from Kabul
Lebanon is made up of 3 factions. The Shias, the Sunnis, and the Christian Maronites. The Christians are no position to wage war since most of the young ones are immigrating to the West by using their Christian card. The Shias have Hezbollah who are very powerful given the fact that they are able to go up against Israel. The Sunni's original backers were the GCC countries but those guys have lost the will to fight after taking a number of Ls against the Shias militias baked by Iran and the on top of that many of their own militias were getting closer to the Muslim Brotherhood which is an existential threat to the monarchies. So the Sunnis don't have anyone to provide arms to fight to they are also out of the picture.
Overall, there is not going to be a civil war in Lebanon.
@thundershirt1
Wrong, not lots, only the people that are known to blame Hezbollah for anything based on nothing but hersey, the same people that have lied about basically anything, including faking a kidnapping attempt and glueing it to the ass of Hezbollah. There is no proof that the ammonium belonged to Hezbollah, you have proof, provide it, otherwise you are just another person trying to glue anything to Hezbollah without evidence, everything being claimed as evidence right now, has been nothing but normal people throwing speculations and heresy's as facts. They are repeating the same thing with rafic hariri assassination, nothing has changed, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Moreover, It was not munitions, it was ammonium nitrate in its raw form that looks like salt, which is also used for breaking large rocks in Quarries, and in Lebanon, there is a very huge booming Query business that has been eating huge hills and ruining the scenery. Additionally, there is a very important information that most of you in their blind enthusiasm to exploit a yet another thing to glue to Hezbollah seem to be ignoring, these ammonium nitrate might also be for the Syrian Rebels to make makeshift bombs and rockets, because we know for a fact that a group of Western/Gulf aligned Lebanese political parties were smuggling guns and explosive materials to the rebels in Syria, we also know for a fact that the Lebanese army has discovered and raided several weapon depot for Jihadi groups in Lebanon with links to the Syrian rebels and some political parties in Lebanon that would you guess what they had in large quantities, makeshift bombs in very huge numbers, and make shift rockets.
Nope, attempts were made in the past to drag Hezbollah to start a civil war, which saw western/gulf aligned groups kill Lebanese civilians, but attempts failed because they could drag Hezbollah, and Hezbollah is aware that some do want to drag them to a civil war.
That explosion was an a result of negligence on a fertiliser ship unless you know something we don't Hezbollah really has nothing to do with it.
@@mahatmadutcheastcompany6726 lol, I’ve always been amazed at how goat lovers can turn any of their most shameful defeats into some kind of victory.
I don't get it. They brutally attack Israel then make the 😮 face when Israel attacks back.
What if you’ve been beaten back for 75+ years you would also attack so I think it’s the other way around
@@Kroshan2 nah, we aren't terrorist who kidnaped people, although the same can't be said for the "people" of the Muslim cult
@@Kroshan2those 75 years of fighting started when the Palestinians and 5 other armies attacked Israel at once
Israel Already tried in 2006, ran away from Lebanon like US did from Kabul
@@mahatmadutcheastcompany6726 yeah in 2006 Israel didn’t have the iron dome yet so they suffered civilian damages.
Hezbollah has no chance now
Sad what has become of Lebanon.
Before US, UK came to middle east separate it into small countries and planted Jewish State because of “Balfour promise”
If Ottoman empire didn’t lose the war UK would not be able to do any shit in Middle east,
And what has been done by force it will be gone sooner or later.
Just watch and see
sad what is to come
All the countries which hate israel will not be successful. It’s called G-d’s divine providence over His people .
Excellent reporting T&P staff (as always)!!
Man your graphics ROCK!
Because BN is such a honest, level headed kinda guy 🤦
💯 this channel really likes to give israel the ol’ reach around.
i'm not too good in english, what does that mean?@@EveryoneIsAmelak
There are no "level-headed guys" in the middle east. They're all religious nuts one faith or another. It's just that one (arguably two with the Saudis) has a culture that produces a technological civilization, and the rest have a culture that never progresses beyond endless infighting and pining for heaven.
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Damn bro you were there huh
As someone who is living 5 or 6 km away from the kibbutz you tqlked about hanita everytime i go to sleep i hear canon fire the iron dome goes off once or twice a day and we are on the quitter side
lmao
funded by us tax money your country stole
Very good cap!
Nice jacket. Great update. BTW, how many pockets does that jacket have?
Jacket gang rise up.
Deep pockets 😂
“Headed for war”? What do you call what has been going on. What other country would put up for this “limited warfare”?
Well most countries aren't apartheid ethnostates so Israel is kind of a special little snowflake on the international scene.
@@Doomer_Optimist🤓🤓🤓
@@Doomer_Optimistwhy do u people always forget to mention about egypt when it comes to apartheid 😂
@@Doomer_OptimistI guess you don't know about ethnic persecution of blacks in North African states like Tunisia? Dubai basically has people in indentured servitude, Pakistan has what amounts to legalized slavery... but yeah Israel. Let's focus on Israel and ignore the wonton abuse of human rights across the Muslim world. Israel bad.
@@spyder3299because it’s not?
APAC money well spent
Chris: You’re an “average infantryman” in the same sense as Eisenhower was “your average officer”.
Keep up the good work.
Plz make a video about the christian militia in lebanon lb lebanon forces in civil war
The Christians in Lebanon got murdered by Hizbollah but of course no talks about it because poor little Palestinian Muhammad is so poor.
Hizbollah is allied to a few Christian parties actually@@phantomapprentice6749
@@phantomapprentice6749here comes a radicalized ignorant blabbering about something he has no idea
@@phantomapprentice6749what!? That’s not even remotely true.
Many Lebanese in the suburb's of Sydney, people of Christian and Islamic faith, if they get on here together so well why cant they do it over in Lebanon?
Calling Hezbollah an Iranian proxy is like calling Israel or Ukraine American proxies. That kind of terminology doesn't help people understand the complex and layered interests that guide their relationship.
Also, Hanita kibbutz was purposefully established in 1938 as a fort and deterrent against Arab resistance to the founding of Israel, then as a first line of defense 'trigger' settlement along the border with Lebanon. It is meant to be vulnerable and meant to act as early warning. That's why it's so close to the border, it is literally founded as a civilian occupied shield, i.e., human shield. This is why so many kibbutzim are located so close to these contested borders.
You so wrong,hzb and hms not friends at all,in fact their leaders don’t like each others at all,the only thing who make them together it’s their feelings to Israel.
Tho only reason they join to attack Israel it’s because Iran told them to do it until the war in Gaza will stop,otherwise they don’t have any reason to support HMS
That literally proxy of Iran.
HZB have huge ability to hurt Israel,if they was really want to help HMS they was ruin the big cities in Israel in the first week,but they knew Israel will do the same in Beirut and they will not sacrifice themselves only because HMS so for now they attack only 5-10 times each day just to show to big dad in Iran they helping them.
What should you expect from an American ?
Just as Israel depends on the US, so does Hezbollah on Iran. Let's not fool ourselves
Your videos are excellent. Respect.
Diaper force 😂
Thanks for the video, a lot of great info.
P.S. If you have a chance, it would be appreciated if could do a video comparing the KAAN fighter jet vs the F-35. They look similar
Good report👍
The eyebrows are looking great cap. Thanks for serving
Hey, has many civilians been displaced in the West Bank? I was just curious because they’re has been minor conflicts in the region.
The civilians in the west bank are constantly being forced out of their homes, being killed, and being arrested without charge.
They're attacked daily by armed settlers and the IDF, even though there's no Hamas presence in the west bank.
Nearly 500 Palestinians were killed just this year in the west bank , including over 100 children.
Also close to 1000 people have been taken prisoner since 2023, with many of them being minors (children), and many of these people are subject to abuse, torture, and sexual violence in captivity.
none
Yes, Israel has bombed the West Bank many times since Oct 7th, and has established illegal (per the United Nations) settlements
@@yigalzaid sources? You’re a clown if you think there has been none
@@yigalzaid misinformation lol
Great content and information. ❤
You watched like 5 minutes
@yungenvy436 and after 21 minutes I still came to the same conclusion,,,,,,you need to get laid and stop being a hallway monitor.😅😅😅
Thank you
Saying 'we will respect a ceasefire' doesn't mean co-ordination when goals are already aligned. Some parts of the Israeli government have been gung-ho claiming they could do to Beirut what they have done to Gaza, seems like IDF General Staff have had to be the grown ups in the room. A withdrawal by only one side from the border seems unlikely but an escalation will only happen if IDF decides, if Hezbollah wanted to do more it would have already done so.
...no one see's an issue with the IDF seeing themselves as an attacking force.... Defense is literally in the title yet not in their doctrine...
Is that why they’ve humored two massive terrorist organizations within their borders for decades?
ever heard of the quote "the best defense is a good offense".
Is that why they pretty much haven’t been the enabler or aggressor in a single war to date?
The idea behind the doctorine is that because Israel is so small and relatively small population it must win quickly so the doctorine is to quickly go on the offence and not get bogged down in defensive wars. Of course the ignorant haters will latch on to this with their hate
They wont commit because they know theyll loose.
Who lost in 2006😂
@@Kroshan2Lebanon
@@ofer3000 umm Israelis goal was to hold parts of southern Lebanon and I don’t Remember martyrs running from ghajar
@@Kroshan2 cope
israel was pressured into a ceasefire, just like they keep trying in gaza@@Kroshan2
I have been following this closely since the start but this video breaks it down better than any I have seen yet.
Keep up the great work. You are sharing the truth and not just one side
"Under the sun", the alien watching it: NOOOOOO
Your coverage of this conflict has been a real step up in your videos Cappy - and you’re a step up anyways - thanks for the updates 👍🏼
Chris, good presentation. But what comes to the Buffer Zone, there are already 10.000 peacekeepers under UN flag protecting the Lebanese Army in order to keep the south of the country safe. Key element in that UN resolution. Think about their role in the conflict. Do they have a role?
no they dont . . they make things little bit complicated for Israel .
Theyre sitting back w their thumbs up their butt, have fallen back and away from yhe conflict
Spose to stop the attacks from Lebanon
they were supose to keep hezbollah out south not only "protect the lebanese army". there's been many official complaints on the security council over it, so israel will advance (if comes to it), hezbollah will too and they'll need to retreat. 10k troops of the UN would get wiped in a day between the IDF and hezbollah. it's 100k on one side and lets say 200k on the other with 10k blue helmets on the middle. they only have apcs with 50cals mostly too
israeli here, they are boy scouts who send reports to the corrupted UN , they aren't allowed to shot or arrest anyone. it's a waste of money to the UN and the west.
You are clearly putting a lot of effort into research, and presenting in a clear and simple format, including hilarious mispronunciations of some place names, etc. (like Ashdod becomes Ashod). I do miss your hilarious comedy edits where you insert yourself into a scene with the protagonists. Generally though I have to say HOOAH to your more unbiased approach to Israel which takes balls in this poisonous media/political space right now. I hope you get time to visit I us in Israel some day.
Lol, “unbiased”. And what “toxic media”? Your people control all of our media and it’s all pro-Israel.
I think they purposefully use mispronunciations to boost comments correcting the errors. They happen in virtually every episode and, you’re correct, often they are quite funny.
"unbiased" he has the Golan Heights as Israeli Territory and calls Hezbollah terrorists 😂😂😂😂
@@Mouqawem Resisting Israel is terrorism.
Or go to the West Bank, Gaza, or Lebanon and actually see what’s happening. He gets the Israeli narrative here in America with our media and politicians.
Great point that Hezbollah isn't inviting any foreign journalists to embed with them. I wonder if Hezbollah doesn't want anyone to independently confirm or deny Hezbollah's claims?
They did have friendly journals with them before Israel targeted them. Israel does the same in that they sanitize any and all journalism from their end and won’t even allow foreign journalists in Gaza, likely bc they dont want ppl to see what they’ve done.
It's hard to differentiate between journalists and activists nowadays
Or maybe they don't want journalists with them so that when the soldiers are targeted the journalists don't get killed and Israel will claim that hezbollah is using 'human shields'.
Hey genius. Maybe any journalist that accepts joining Hezbollah would be...wait for it...considered a terrorist sympathizer, and probably not hood for any future career...or freedom to not be imprisoned.
They don't need to "embed" with Hezbollah as they have free access to the Border area.. unlike in Israel who wants to hide everything and prevents Journalists accessing the Lebanon border or entering Gaza etc... I wonder why?
The sad truth though is that many journalists brave enough to use this access, get killed by Israel. The Israelis are desperate to make sure that only their version of the story gets told. So many brave journalists have been killed since October 7th.... and all by Israel.
Excellent video. Very factual and, just as importantly, objective.
I don't know if you mentioned them, but the UN vehicles shown towards the end belong to UNIFIL - a UN "peacekeeping" force officially meant to ensure Hezbollah abide by the terms of Resolution 1701 and keep Hezbollah north of the Litani River. As far as I can tell they contribute absolutely zero - what are they there for? Does anybody know more on this?
They are useless and Israel is trying to get the UN to enforce 1701 but they have refused for now because hezbollah will attack
To do what UN does best.
Sit and watch.
UNIFIL like UNWRA are both creatures of the UN.
The UN has been openly hostile to Israel since the 1960's.
Both of the above bodies work in unison to destabilize Israel.
They have no other reason to exist.
so, the troops are there. hezbollah ignore it. when israel defends itself they will just fly over or shoot over them and formally complain to the UN when are attacked on the "demilitarized zone".
which does nothing of course
so if something happens both sides will just ignore it as they already do
but legally is in effect (which means jack sh!t)
this happened in other wars, israel just handle the documentation and warnings to the security council (that were made over the years) "i've warned the UN xx times and xx actor and nothing was done, so now i feel free to proceed" and attacks
Anyone who takes the UN seriously isn't really paying attention. Anyone who thinks the UN armed forces have any meaningful role, in any conflict anywhere, must actively avoid reading or listening and have their head stuck somewhere dark.
Hezbollah in fighting to maintain Iran's puppet in Syria has lost a substantial number of fighters, Lebanese scholar Hanin Ghadar has also noted that the finances needed to prosecute that conflict took a toll on the social services Hezbollah provides to its population, so a long dragged out fight with Israel especially one in which Israel uses a quickly falling apart Lebanese economy to its advantage could end badly for Hezbollah. The intent in this conflict for Israel would be decimate Hezbollah as a fighting force.
Uh, Israel try destroyed HZ twice and still failed
@@tiglishnobody8750 It didn't the 1990-2000 presence in Lebanon wasn't aimed at annihilating Shia militias but to back the Free Lebanon State, and the 2006 war's aim was retaliatory in response to the kidnapping of IDF personnel not aimed at Hezbollah's annihilation. Israel hasn't fought a war with Hezbollah where's its aim is it's complete destruction.
@Jogthewog in the 80’s Israel reached beriut then suddenly a mysterious shiate group started smoking them
@@Kroshan2 Mysterious? Smoked? Dude Israel ran Southern Lebanon from the 80s to the 2000s before withdrawing, Hezbollah lost around 1,276 killed (1982-2000) vs Israel which lost less than 559 soldiers. If that's getting smoked when for two decades another country is running your entire southern territory, your definition of getting smoked is really poor.
@@GuyShōtō And you still lost as even the South Lebanon conflict ended in 2000 with HZ victory, isn't expelling HZ from South Lebanon's main goal? If Israel give up try crush HZ and leave South Lebanon, more like you just smoked yourself
Sorry if I am being disrespectful, am I the only one who read the title the title as Hasbula 💀?
This is how the story sounds like from one side.
Nine IDF dead? Really, man? Where are you getting casualty numbers from?
Probably the IDF haha
got a source for different numbers? as far as i remember the resistance has refrained from putting out concrete kill-count. Though they did say casualties are definitely higher and used their attack monitoring as proof that the IOF figures aren't accurate.
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1:50 if the colonel is saying IDF is an offensive task force and they have to be taught to defend
then there is something wrong, afaik, D stand for defense
In history a great offense has always been a very good defense, its just natural behaviour, why wage the war on your land when you can wage it in the other guys land
@@Sven73524hey I was gonna say that :(
Credit to the photo and photographer at 8:06! That one is a banger. Worn-out IDF and their vehicles and a killer sunset in the muzzle brake of a tanks canon...Love the channel this just caught my attention.
I'm Lebanese i had friends in the north i got my landlord to rent out vacant rooms for them for the time being. This is horrendous how 1 terrorist group can control a beautiful country. All i want is peace and friendship with Israel and many other nations in the region ffs
Greetings from Israel my friend
Excellent report as usual Spare Parts Army.
It sure sems like Israel is seriously considering using its army while it is mobilized and operationally vetted in urban combat to go after Hezbollah, I have heard this chain of thought for months.
They are probably waiting until they lower military operations in Gaza before full force on Lebanon and are willing to have a diplomatic solution until then
Israelis really feeling their oats. Hubris is not always a good thing.
Israeli here. We are also waiting for spring. Mud is not very tank-friendly.
Israel really needs stop picking fights.
Great summary
Thx
As Lebanese citizen, I can tell you things aren't looking great and I'm glad I got my passport lol
A big war will not be good to any of the countries i hope it won't have to happen
This guy will do a whole ep on the "genocide in China" but not one mention about the ongoing genocide being committed by Israel and United states
Love your videos! Any chance you can do a video on the Chinese threat in the pacific with Australia and USA. It seems like this is gonna happen sooner than people realise.
Curious how only the Russian regime and their MAGA allies seem to think war with China needs to happen...
When was the unity between Sunni and Shia became reality? Upon eliminating their common enemy, they will decimate each other.....
Praying for all side 🙏❤️
Minor correction: Hamas is Suni. Iran has subscribed to the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” principle
It's sad how this channel has so much news to cover now...
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Truth facts:
Israel is more obsessed with civilian massacres, rather thn liquidating the terrorists... Since innocents are killed.. Little ones are disuniting from their families. Too much soreness even to think of. SAD😢😢
Love your updates !
Amazing, up to date, and well explained. Thank you
seems like if all of your neighbors have a problem with you, it might not be your neighbors entirely that are the cause.
They've been kicked out of 109 countries throughout history; never their fault tho.
Dang im so early theres only a few russian and palestine bots in the comments
don't worry they will be here.
it's already full of indoctrinated NPCs though
What about zio and ukrain bots?
What about hasabara and ukro
@@Kroshan2They have more money so they are always here.
In fact they are in your walls right now.
Une super video comme d'habitude❤
Peux tu faire une video bilan ? Sur les pertes ?
Imagine being a sovereign country and having a terrorist army of 60 000 within your borders..
Israel has military and technological supremacy. They are extremely sophisticated on the battlefield had tend to over-perform--as in Swords of Iron. DO NOT MESS WITH THEM.
They're the US if the US wasn't a shit show.
Lol theirtanks are getting wrecking and they lost the war in Lebanon in 2005
2006*
@@Kroshan2 This is NOT 2006.
@@Rampart.X "Homemade weapons". *Points to obvious Iranian smuggled weapons*
It's almost like everyone forgot how a war is fought. Cities harboring armories, staging areas and if Hamas' weak propaganda is to be believed, manufacturing facilities, are valid military targets. The London Blitz, the Allied bombing campaign over Germany, the firebombing of Japan, the Vietnam War carpet bombing, Operation Shock and Awe in Iraq. Civilian casualties are a tragic, yet expected factor in an open war.
It's amazing to think that Lebanon, not so long ago, was a prosperous Christian nation... Nice work Cappy!
Yep a change of religion and it went downhill pretty fast.
@@sinnoboy0000because muslims entered the west
Yes, in Beirut Lebanon was called the Paris of the Middle East when it was Christian
The situation in Lebanon has nothing to do with religion rather than decades of corruption and conflicts half of the muslims here hate hezbollah.
It wasnt a christian nation
You used the term terrorist to define Hezbollah somewhat uncritically. Could you articulate why that term applies to them but not the IDF?