Yes it does work like that, and bombing them anyways is the counter.

Would be nice if we had an easier way to solve problems, but it’s not realistic.

Wow, some people clearly need to read more books. It’s a reference.

Well then maybe the Lebanese government shouldn’t allow a non government military group to operate inside their border.

The leader of Hezbollah was confirmed dead in the attack, so clearly they were using human shields… They have been attacking Israel from a foreign country, and are not part of that countries military, which makes them terrorists.

You don’t like the truth, but lying about it doesnt change the facts of the matter.

It’s literally terrorist 101 to use human shields. This tactic has been used by every insurgency in the last hundred years.

It’s why it was added as a war crime.

As for the second one to commit a war crime. If you follow the rules, but your enemy doesn’t, you will lose. This is the international equivalent of the bunch buggy no punch back bullshit that let’s people hit you with no retaliation.

To protect the US from rockets from… Canada?

Residential buildings that Hezbollah intentionally set up a headquarters in the basement of.

Thats already a war crime by Hezbollah.

You realize that the US, Russia, and China have been fighting this way and killing millions of civilians for like 60+ years now right?

Ukraine for example is the US vs Russia/China.

Afghanistan was the US vs Russia a few times.

The whole point of fighting somewhere else is that fewer of your own civilians die.

Because Nukes are a thing, that’s why all big countries fight proxy wars now. Ukraine, Israel, Afghanistan… All proxies.

Oh right, all the sanctions and prosecutions against Iran are working so well.

The rest of the world has picked sides, and there are major players on both sides, so nothing can happen.

If it’s a war crime to target non-combatants, then Hezbollah is already committing the war crimes with their rocket attacks on Israel. So is using human shields.

If your enemy isn’t following the “rules” why should you be required to do so?

The US was literally founded by taking the land of another group of people who were there first.

So was pretty much every other modern country.

I think Iran should stop funding terrorists.

If you want to get into who has who’s blood on their hands, you’ve got a very large history book to read. I don’t think there is a single non-island country (and even some of those have it) that doesn’t have a history steeped in humans killing other humans over the land.

Yes, but “aggressively removed from their homeland in 1948” also means “was voted on and approved by the UN as a direct result of what happened to the Jewish people in the world wars, and the collapse of the Ottoman empire for supporting the axis in WW1.”

Their country tried to win a war, and failed. Why shouldn’t there be consequences for that, like getting broken up and given in pieces to various more friendly groups.

Germany lost territory after the world wars too, but you don’t see them shooting rockets at their neighbors to get it back.

My point about refugees is that Iran is taking literally 0 of them, despite being a major funding and arms source for Hamas and Hezbollah. I was pointing out that Iran doesn’t give a shit about the Palestinian people, other than to use them as fodder to hurt Israel.

If two groups claim a territory at the same time, and both have lived there on and off for a few thousand years depending on the activity of dozens of wars. Who exactly has the right to it?

Which was retaliation for Iran funding and arming terrorists. Context does matter.

“Lebanese militant group”

Should be read as “Iran armed and equipped militant group that just happens to be in Lebanon”

That’s the point, no?

Iran already directly attacked Israel on April 13th this year. They sent over a hundred drones and missiles.

The blame needs to lie with the aggressors, which in this case is Iran. People see Palestinians dying and assume that Israel is just beating them up because they’re bullies, when it’s Iran that’s doing the bullying via terrorist groups and Israel is just fighting back.

Diplomacy won’t solve the issue, because Iran doesn’t want a diplomatic solution and is happy to keep handing out guns and rockets to disillusioned young men just to weaken Israel for as long as they want.