@vivify saidThank God for people like the Jews who dont give a rats behind about ..violent Islamist backlash. Instead they are willing to go slaughter those sick bastards.
You have a point. Part of that reason is political correctness; another part of that reason is fear of violent Islamist backlash.
South Park regularly mocks religion and depicts Jesus as a character in their episodes. The creators said their network won't allow them to mock Islam due to fear of violence or death.
So the disparity is not entirely because people just want to hate whitey.
@Tad saidAnything that can be done as a weapon of war will be done at some point.
Thought about and doing are two different things.
If I made a flying space car is some 90 year old going to take the credit because he "thought about it" 70 years ago?
Israel did this first and from now on it will be a weapon of war. They also put a very bad idea into the minds of bad people.
It's just a matter of time.
For 6 months, Hezbollah has been firing rockets into northern Israel, aiming at civilian centers. Israel's nothern tourism area (the center of "vacation" type tourism, as opposed to city and history based tourism) has been dead for a long time.
Instead of whining about it and getting into a tit-for-tat, which it can't possibly win in the long run (against an enemy with unlimited support from Iran and backed by most of the world and hundreds of thousands of rockets and no compunction on attacking civilians, tit-for-tat is useless), Israeli military leadership, at some point, got together and said "let's stay cool and carefully plan a decapitation attack to take out the leadership and sow discord and confusion amongst the Hezbollah ranks."
So, it came up with a comprehensive plan for a cooridnated combined technological and air strike. It started with the pagers to confuse and disorient the organization. Now, whle hands, ears and other parts are still wringing (and ringing), they're sending in an air attack to take out as much of the leadership and rocket launching sites as it can.
Now, am I naive enough to think that this is the end of Hezbollah? Of course not. They'll be back next month attacking Kiryat Shemona again. But the smartest of the Lebanese are going to think twice before taking Hezbollah leadership positions and the common Hezbollah foot soldier is going to be a afraid of his own shadow for the next while.
This operation was a thing of beauty. Given that destruction of Hezbollah is impossible, this was the next best thing.
I've noticed a sharp uptick in support of Israel on Twitter and the like. Of course, there's still the same haters out there, but for the median folk, what they really support is a winner.
And whether it will sustain itself is anyone's guess of course, but in this operation, what Israel comes off of is a winner (kind of like Hamas came off as a winner on 10/7, which succeeded in galvanizing this Jew-haters around the world).
It reminds me of the histories I've read about the 6 day war. After the 6 day war, even the Arab governments stopped the anti-Israel rhetoric for a while, anyway. They were demoralized. Israel was demoralized after 10/7. For now, the anti-Israel terror establishment has to be at least temporarily demoralized.
@sh76 saidDon't talk about war like it's football.
I've noticed a sharp uptick in support of Israel on Twitter and the like. Of course, there's still the same haters out there, but for the median folk, what they really support is a winner.
Still, I agree it was a masterfully coordinated attack.
Wars like this usually drag on because there's pride involved for the attackers. But Lebanese citizens have more sway over the government than Palestinians have with Hamas. Citizens will protest and show their anger at this government if their countrymen keep dying for war their government didn't have to initiate.