• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    “Under the deal reached today, effective at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow, local time, the fighting across the Lebanese Israeli border will end,” Biden said in the White House Rose Garden.

    “This is designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities,” he added. “What is left of Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations will not be allowed, I emphasize, will not be allowed, to threaten the security of Israel again.”

    Can never tell if Biden is saying what he means to say, or his mind went on a walkabout…

    But it sounds like that’s less of an equal ceasefire and more that Israel will restart if they hear anyone complain about Israel’s actions…

    Like, Biden is literally threatening them, that if they threaten Israel that’s enough for a war…

    And he probably legit believes this is fair and equal

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    22 days ago

    Hey, look, that’s white phosphorus, it’s a war crime on the featured image! Yay normalization of barbarity UwU

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          21 days ago

          What a relief! , Here I was thinking it was an incendiary non-discriminate weapon that could horribly maim civilians if used in a densely populated city like beirut.

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            21 days ago

            Simply pointing it out because use of white phosphorus is probably a war crime under the Geneva convention but thermite isn’t. Also people in this thread are reading an awful lot into a very low rez thumbnail that doesn’t even appear in the article and for all I know has nothing to do with the israel-lebanon comflict.

  • NastyNative@mander.xyz
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    22 days ago

    Open diplomacy at least in this case is temporarily stopping death. This is something to be celebrated! Good on Biden for doing this. Why cant Biden do the same for Ukraine?

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      22 days ago

      “And over the next 60 days, Israel will gradually withdraw its remaining forces.”

      Guess who’s not willing to withdraw their forces back to their own territory.

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        22 days ago

        I don’t think they have a choice specially if we cut funding for Israel. We are forcing them to stop we should be doing the same with Ukraine and Russia. Peace is attainable for sure! Also they are only withdrawing from Lebanon what about Gaza?

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          22 days ago

          Who is cutting funding for Israel? And if if that was a factor in the recent ceasefire (which I’m not aware off) … how does that apply to Ukraine? We already cut all “funding” to Russia and sanction them.

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              22 days ago

              I didn’t say that?

              The ceasefire deal is with Hezbollah (which is in Lebanon) and not with Hamas (which is in Gaza). That is what the article you are currently commenting on, is about.

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                  22 days ago

                  I was quoting the article that is talking about the withdrawl from Lebanon. Lebanon is not Gaza. Nobody in this comment chain was talking about Gaza until you just now.