Meanwhile, UN officials urgently call for a Lebanon ceasefire as the Middle East is on the “brink of catastrophe.”…
There was no hint of de-escalation as Israeli warplanes bombed a residential area of Beirut on Friday, killing at least 31 people, including multiple Hezbollah commanders, and wounding at least dozens of others. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said that the dead include three women and seven children.
During a Saturday television interview, Israeli Minister of Education Yoav Kisch falsely proclaimed that “there is no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon.”
“The way things are progressing at the moment, Lebanon will be annihilated,” he vowed. Pressed on the genocidal implications of the word “annihilated,” Kisch said, “Lebanon as we know it will not exist.”
It's really more like one of those really toxic codependent relationships where both seize to use any reason because they're just whoring to the whims of the other.
Like a really sexually frustrated 50 year old (married) guy and a 20 year old bipolar exotic (male) dancer with a substance abuse issue
It is. The scale of violence in Gaza right now is unprecedented in the region, surpassing even the Nakba and the two invasions of Lebanon, specifically because past US presidents had (definitely too loose, but not nonexistent) reigns on Israel.
US has only one master and that's capitalism. Israel has money and is making the war machine rich. If Israel started costing the rich in the US money that would change very quickly.