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Communication? Lebanon has a right to defend itself. It’s like questioning why Biden has a line to the Israel Prime Minister.

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Why should the US president be in regular contact with the perpetrator of an ongoing genocide?

Almost makes you think the US supports continued Israeli apartheid.

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You’re asking why the US formed an ally 75 years ago with the only stable democracy in the middle east and has a continued interest in maintaining stability in the region?

Of course not, you can only operate in sound bytes, buzzwords and catchphrases.

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“only stable democracy” haha that old chestnut, you are deluded if you are ignoring the number of actual democracies in the ME that USA has helped topple or marginalised.

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Whilst the first part of your point is correct IMHO, for the rest Israel has been the very opposite of a force for stability in the region and the non-conditionality of the US’ help has emboldened successive Israeli governments to behave worse and worse thus making the region less stable (one of their main concerns seems to be to stop nations around them from having stable democratic governments) rather than more.

I would say that ACAB and a bunch of very rich Americans with Fascist tendencies who happen to be Jewish and love the ethno-Fascism which is Zionism having bought American Politics (basically doing what Russia wanted to do and, unlike Russia, actually succeeding) is a far better explanation for continued American support of Israel, a theory that much better explains the unconditionality of the American support for Israel than the idea that it’s because of wanting stability in the Middle East.

Absolutelly, American support makes geostrategical sense up to a point. It’s just that we’re well beyond that point and the American support in its current form (weapon shipments, blocking UN resolutions condemning the genocide) doesn’t make sense for geostrategical reasons (both in terms of stability in the Middle East and because it also damages the perception of America all over the World), so it must be something else driving it.

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Mind telling me how Israel is a table democracy? Or how they create stability? Maybe you can tell me why the middle east is a destabilized region to begin with?

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Apart with all the buzzwords; Current US politics for Israel is making US look bad on an international stage. There’s no point in behaving that way.

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9 points

Pagers are one directional, and cant be traced.

To view a different way, why do they have a pager, rather than just calling an embassy, “state department” or cell phone?

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If they have nothing to hide, why don’t they let themselves be killed?

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6 points

That’s a very weak arguement - you’re communicating with the embassy and ambassador of a recognized country.

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32 points

Hezbollah is a right wing religious militia, not the government of Lebanon

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-12 points

They are like the minutemen, but have worse PR.

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6 points

Haha no. Take some time and read up maybe? All the info is available. Heck, maybe hop on a call and talk to some people in Lebanon? Anything. Just stop repeating nonsense.

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23 points

they’re not the government but they are a political party with 15 seats in the parliament.

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-8 points

And most political parties don’t sit on a stash of rockets and other military weapons.

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