Hezbollah leader vows retaliation for future Israeli attacks

[George II]

Source: Associated Press

BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the militant Hezbollah group said Saturday his group will retaliate against any future Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon, a day after his supporters fired a barrage of rockets toward Israel.

Hassan Nasrallah said it would be wrong to assume Hezbollah would be constrained by internal divisions in Lebanon, or the country’s harsh economic crisis.

Nasrallah’s comments came a day after his group fired rockets toward Israel, calling it retaliation for Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon a day earlier.

Thursday’s airstrikes — the first in years — were in response to mysterious rockets that were fired from Lebanon toward Israel on Wednesday.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-israel-lebanon-beirut-735c93973086f8845bb6ec5fbb2b5337

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[bahboo]

1. and on and on it goes....

[GB_RN]

2. The Celestial Cesspit In The Sands

I don’t remember who called the Middle East that, but it sounds about right. One group or another claiming “Mine!”, and killing each other, for millennia, over what amounts to be a stack of ancient bricks…at best. Utterly pointless.

Just so…done…with all of it.

[Steelrolled]

3. Yeah, I think the so-called "international community" has

had a overall detrimental effect.

There is a reality in the middle east that no-one wants to face.

[GB_RN]

4. Hindsight Is Always 20/20

And there's no going back on certain decisions. I have Jewish friends that say voting to create Israel was/has been an unmitigated Charley Foxtrot. Who am I to argue with them?

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I certainly won't argue that our unquestioning support for everything that Israel's government does in the West Bank and Gaza does exacerbates damn near every problem in the Middle East. And it certainly gives hostile governments in the ME an excuse (even if flimsy, since they don't really give a shit about the Palestinians themselves), to keep causing trouble.

At the root of a lot of US political support here: Religion. The Religious Right(wing) and its belief that Israel has to exist so that the Temple of Solomon can be rebuilt and usher in Armageddon and the 2nd coming. No kidding.

[ripcord]

5. Did he really just say how dare Israel defend themselves against rocket attacks?

[Behind the Aegis]

6. You can't be that surprised.

The same sentiment is echoed here by a few. One doesn't even have to go far to see such dog whistles. It is has it has been since the creation of Israel; it is one Jewish state too many.