Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Small_Banana View Post

The pagers, knowing exactly where Hezbollah's leaders are...but didn't know anything about October 7th? Makes one wonder.
They were caught with their pants down, just like the US on 9/11.

Sometimes you get complacent with the status quo, and you get hit from out of nowhere.

Even if you want to make the case that Israel knew the 10/7 attacks were coming, and then let them happen in order to justify going after Hamas, that doesn't change the fact that Hamas attacked them. Nor does it change the fact that Hezbollah started firing rockets into Israel the next day, sensing weakness.

There's been a lot of anti-Semitic rhetoric trying to paint Israel as the oppressors, but it falls apart upon scrutiny. Hamas and Hezbollah aren't brave freedom fighters. They are religious fanatics who hate Jews, and have been propped up by Iran. Hezbollah doesn't give a shit about the Lebanese people, and Hamas doesn't care about the people of Gaza. It's a selfish crusade, fueled by extremist hate, and funded by a regime jockeying for power in the region.

Fortunately these groups have anti-Semite conspiracy nuts on both the left and right, doing free propaganda work for them.
The Palestinians have a legitimate grievance. The Zionists came in and basically stole the land from them. And the Zionists have been fucking with them ever since. Restricting their rights, illegal checkpoints, administrative detention, etc. You make it seem like a bunch of bored Arabs woke up one morning and decided to kill some Jews out of boredom. That's not the case. Israel has been fucking with the Palestinians for a very long time. October 7th was revenge.