Firass Abiad says many of the 550 people killed in Monday’s attacks targeting Hezbollah were civilians.

Lebanon’s health minister has said what is happening in his country is “carnage”, as hospitals struggle to cope with the number of casualties from two days of widespread Israeli air strikes targeting the armed group Hezbollah.

Dr Firass Abiad told the BBC it was “clear” that many of the 550 people killed in Monday’s attacks were civilians, including children and women.

  • @FlowVoidEnglish
    3•3 months ago

    It’s not on me, it’s on the candidates and parties to court my vote.

    You completely misunderstand politics.

    Voters aren’t consumers. Politicians aren’t companies trying to maximize market share. All they need is 51% of the people who actually vote. If you don’t vote, then you literally aren’t part of the equation.

    “It’s on parties to court my vote” is like “It’s on Starbucks to court my filling out a comment card”. Starbucks doesn’t care at all if you fill out a comment card or not. They just want the people who do fill them out to write positive comments.

    • @[email protected]English
      -4•3 months ago

      This is totally illogical and you know it. And your Starbucks gift card “metaphor” is a complete false equivalence.

      Why do parties run campaigns if their job isn’t convince voters? Billions of dollars and endless hours of research are spent courting votes but you say it’s not their job and they don’t care? Wha???

      • @FlowVoidEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        Yes, their job is to convince voters. The people who will actually vote. They are not trying to convince nonvoters. Nonvoters don’t matter.

        How many Harris campaign commercials are playing in Paris? Zero, because Parisians can’t vote. Harris isn’t trying to court Parisians, and for the exact same reason she isn’t courting American nonvoters. You’ve been written off as irrelevant to this election.

          • @FlowVoidEnglish
            0•3 months ago

            The circular part is where you wonder why nobody is doing anything to help Palestinians.

            I’ll give you a hint: after the election, pollsters will ask people who voted what the most important issues are to them. Since people like you aren’t voting, very few voters will answer “helping Palestinians”. Politicians will look at those polls and simply maintain the status quo regarding Palestine, since voters have little appetite for change. And the status quo is sending arms to Israel.

            Again and again, the left shoots itself in the foot.