15 Comments
User's avatar
Tim Logan's avatar

We really do need new Nuremberg trials, and soon!

George Leone's avatar

Agree, sooner than later.

M. Ayub's avatar

If we did for Bush, Cheney or Obama we won't have it now. :(

Mitsu Fisher's avatar

Is this Israel trying to do the "greater Israel" take over local neighbor's territory thing?

Rob Roy's avatar

Mitsu, yes. The plan for a "greater Israel" has been the goal since David Ben Gurion (not his real name). Every odious prime minister since has had the same goal. No place on earth is as evil as Israel. No people on earth are as good as the Palestinians. I've been to "Israel" and seen the cold jewish racism. I've been to Gaza and the West Bank and seen the warmth and kindness of Palestinians. Stark difference. And the US, EU, Australia, et.al. are as evil and racist as the jews of Israel, supplying that hellhole with weapons for the genocide. Now the Iranians are standing up for themselves. They are winning the war. Don't think Israel won't use the Samson nuclear weapon option if they realize they're losing to Iran. The racists would rather die than be defeated. BTW, Iran is a Republic with a Constitution that's followed by the citizens who are furious about their Ayatollah being murdered. He was beloved. Don't fall for the US propaganda machine.

nancy knox-bierman's avatar

yup. They are also threatening Turkey, calling them "a problem".

George Leone's avatar

What stands out most in this reporting is not just the scale of the displacement, but the human reality behind it. When an entire region south of the Litani is shaded red and ordered to evacuate, that isn’t a “targeted operation” — it’s collective punishment on a massive scale. Families like Mustafa Arout’s, elderly leaders, toddlers, farm workers, refugees who already fled one war — they are not military objectives.

Yes, Hezbollah fired rockets. Yes, that escalates tensions. But international law does not disappear because one side violates a ceasefire. Forcing tens of thousands from their homes in 24 hours, bombing areas where displaced families are sheltering, and advancing deeper into civilian towns raises serious moral and legal questions that cannot be brushed aside as “security.”

What’s especially tragic is how civilians are trapped between armed actors and geopolitical agendas. Lebanese citizens, Syrian refugees, even the Lebanese government itself are caught in a power struggle they do not control. Meanwhile, housing discrimination, skyrocketing rents, and overwhelmed shelters compound the crisis.

If the goal is long-term security for anyone — Israeli or Lebanese — mass displacement and open-ended escalation are not a strategy. They are accelerants. And as history has shown repeatedly in this region, collective trauma does not produce stability. It produces another cycle.

At some point, the question has to shift from “who fired first this week?” to “how many more families have to flee before diplomacy becomes more urgent than dominance?”

huey's avatar

The tax paying citizens of the US need thier money spent on Americans and regime change in Israel.

marth frez's avatar

you're being nice. I call them parasitic terrorists

Claire Heffernan's avatar

Israel is the biggest f ... ing terrorist on the planet. Pull the plug on Israel. They are a genocidal, racist, barbaric bunch of criminal psycho's who only know violence and murder. Disgusting.

Jon Notabot's avatar

“It was a home for displaced people. They weren’t building rockets,” Arout told Drop Site. “Where are the European nations with their great morals? Where is the conscience of humanity?”

Where indeed...???

A personal note to **anyone** who happens to have a job making bombs for Israel or the US - or, perhaps programs robots to do the very same task - "fuck you".

From, literally most every working person on the planet.

Susiyounes1@gmail.com's avatar

Great article that explains the current situation on the ground … to the point and concise.

Tricia Cassel-Gerard's avatar

They’re all on crack. Give it a rest already.

Monty Gates's avatar

Olean news quoted a drop site source. Makes me proud