Like, sure, I’ll agree that Hezbollah have definitely not been a net benefit to Lebanese and they’ve used the resistance rhetoric to kill and assassinate Lebanese (civilian and politician alike).
But I can’t say that they’ve ever been the aggressor against Israel. Even if you look at the 2006 war that ‘started’ with Hezbollah kidnapping Israeli soldiers patrolling the border, they did it with the purpose of negotiating the release of hostages that Israel held and tortured for many years after their withdrawal from their occupation of South Lebanon.
And to also try and compare glorified bottle rockets to the ultimately destructive bunker busters lined with uranium that Israel launches at civilian infrastructure in a non symmetrically proportionate response - it’s not a 1:1 comparison and that needs to be highlighted and underscored.
I’m just entering this whole thread just now.
Like, sure, I’ll agree that Hezbollah have definitely not been a net benefit to Lebanese and they’ve used the resistance rhetoric to kill and assassinate Lebanese (civilian and politician alike).
But I can’t say that they’ve ever been the aggressor against Israel. Even if you look at the 2006 war that ‘started’ with Hezbollah kidnapping Israeli soldiers patrolling the border, they did it with the purpose of negotiating the release of hostages that Israel held and tortured for many years after their withdrawal from their occupation of South Lebanon.
And to also try and compare glorified bottle rockets to the ultimately destructive bunker busters lined with uranium that Israel launches at civilian infrastructure in a non symmetrically proportionate response - it’s not a 1:1 comparison and that needs to be highlighted and underscored.