• Kabe
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    CNN conveniently neglects to point out that there hasn’t been a single day since the “ceasefire” began that Israel hasn’t broken it.

    These latest Irans strikes were in retaliation to Israel attacking Beirut despite repeated warnings from both Iran and the US.

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      Israel doesn’t have a ceasefire with Hezbollah, so I wonder which one you feel they’re breaking?

      The attacks on (Hezbollah neighbourhoods in southern) Beirut were in retaliation of Hezbollah attacks on Israel

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        The ceasefire with Iran on April 8th called for a pause to all hostilities in the region, but for some reason Israel unilaterally decided this didn’t prevent them from continuing their invasion into Lebanon.

        Then on April 16th there was a different agreement between Israel and the Lebanon government, which again did not prevent Israel from shelling towns and murdering civilians who had not managed to flee their illegal “buffer zone” in the south.

        And then of course there’s Gaza, which also is under an alleged ceasefire despite the fact that Israel continues to seize territory, airstrike refugee camps, and shoot children there on a daily basis.

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          The ceasefire on April 8th was between the US and Israel The ceasefire on April 16th was between Israel and Lebanon, but not Hezbollah

          As long as Hezbollah doesn’t agree to a ceasefire, there is no ceasefire between them and Israel

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            Spare us the hasbara, please. It’s insulting. They have not just been conducting targeted strikes against Hezbollah.

            Since invading Southern Lebanon, Israel military have conducted airstrikes on schools, hospitals, and residential areas. They have razed entire cities to the ground.

            They have been using the Gaza playbook of making entire areas uninhabitable in order to ethnically cleanse and expand into new territory, while killing any civilians who get in their way.

            https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

            You don’t get to use retaliatory attacks by the people you’re invading as an excuse to continue to commit war crimes during a ceasefire.

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              Yeah they sure are going in heavy handed, although at a certain level of course there’s no way to stop Hezbollah if you rule out the civilian areas they working from. Same thing happened to IS and I wonder if you cared about them then then

              If Hezbollah stops attacking Israel all this has a chance to end. But until that happens it’s laughable to point to Israel for “breaking the (nonexistant) ceasefire”

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                “If the Palestinians and the Lebanese would just hand over their homeland to the brutal foreign invader, all of this unpleasantness would end” is certainly a hot take.

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                  The Lebanese were doing just fine until Hezbollah couldn’t keep themselves from restarting hostilities anymore

                  Maybe you should launch some missiles into a neighbouring country and see how it turns out?

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        Lebanon was specifically called out in the ceasefire. They have repeated bombed civilian centers there.

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          Yeah, civilian centers that are used by Hezbollah.

          The Lebanese government is asking Hezbollah to stop their attacks too.

          I don’t know which country you’re in but if a militant group would attack you from a neighbouring country, how do you expect your country would react? How would you react when your politicians say there’s nothing they can do because they don’t want to touch the civilian areas they’re using?

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            well here’s hoping hezbollah gets a few good hits in and israel, finally, gets its teeth knocked in. they are a genocidal piece of shit nation.