The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia terrifies people on both sides of the border, but some see it as an inevitable fallout from Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.

Such a war could be the most destructive either side has ever experienced.

Israel and Hezbollah each have lessons from their last war, in 2006, a monthlong conflict that ended in a draw. They’ve also had four months to prepare for another war, even as the United States tries to prevent a widening of the conflict.

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    No one wants this war, or wishes it on anyone,” said Tal Beeri of the Alma Research and Education Center

    Bit naive imo. Netanyahu is a bit of a strongman that catastrophically failed to keep his people safe, which betrays the most foundational appeal of such a figure. His approval rating demonstrates this, and he’s facing criminal charges to boot.

    He has one route forward for personal preservation–more war.

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      I think the article meant the citizens don’t want this war cuz it’ll bring nothing but misery

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      What does personal preservation imply in this case? Escaping criminal charges?

      Why not pardon him then? If nobody wants a war, that seems like a natural way to escape the so called catch 22 here.

      War, especially lengthy war, is not good for any nation. There’s no benefit. It’s in Israelis best interests to not keep it going long.

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      Israel, the country that has been in a perpetual state of war for the last 70 years with its own people and neighbors suddenly wanting peace? I don’t see it. This has always been how netanyahu operates.

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        Right because all those wars totally weren’t Israel’s neighbors trying to exterminate them down to the last Jew, right?

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          Not really. If someone decided to build an ethnostate in your home and you weren’t invited, but millions of people from around the world were, to our wouldn’t try to resist? You wouldn’t fight back as they took your property?

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            Ever wonder why there are no Jews in Egypt? Or Iraq? Or Jordan? Or Syria? Or Yemen? Or Saudi Arabia?

            There are no Jews in these countries because they were ethnically cleaned by the local Arab populations in the 1940s. They escaped to the only place that had a sizeable Jewish population, mandatory Palestine. And instead of accepting refugees with open arms, neighbor turned on neighbor and the local Arab population attempted to exterminate every Jewish man, woman, and child. Thankfully they did not succeed and their descendants now live in Gaza and the West Bank.

            I recommend that you educate yourself on the history of the area before you speak with authority on the subject.

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              Thank you for changing topics and avoiding the main topic. Killing civilians is wrong. Hope you have a good day.

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      Will Israel’s neighbors go one decade/year/month/day without lobbing artillery onto civilians?

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        Shh, don’t burst their bubble. In their heads you are suppose to accept being terrorized and bombed and do nothing because anything you do is genocide and starting a war.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Israel launched a full-scale air and ground offensive and imposed a blockade that aimed to free the hostages and destroy Hezbollah’s military capabilities — a mission that ultimately failed.

    An Israel-Hezbollah war “would be a total disaster,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned last month, amid a flurry of shuttle diplomacy by the U.S. and Europe.

    The U.N. refugee agency has provided supplies to collective shelters and given emergency cash to some 400 families in south Lebanon, spokesperson Lisa Abou Khaled said.

    Aid group Doctors Without Borders said it has stockpiled some 10 tons of medical supplies and backup fuel for hospital generators in areas most likely to be affected by a widening conflict, in anticipation of a blockade.

    Around half of Israelis would support war with Hezbollah as a last resort for restoring border security, according to recent polling by the think tank Israel Democracy Institute.

    A full-scale war would likely spread to multiple fronts, escalating the involvement of Iranian proxies in Syria, Iraq and Yemen — and perhaps even draw in Iran itself.


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