That is pretty normal, yes?Any other Americans uncomfortable with the fact that Netanyahu approved the Nasrallah strike from US soil—without informing any of their US counterparts??? Is that just normal ally behavior??
Source: WSJ
Pretty amazing how people to just not even think about the apartheid state of the Palestinians, and the war crime filled war over the past year against the Palestinians. It's like they are just not even part of the equation.
There seems to be some confusion behind the premise of your questions.
I wonder how the US would react to some random country dropping a bomb in theirs then later saying, "it's OK, right? We killed a bad guy".... and that's way before we get to the scenario of Israel dropping a bomb that kills a multitude of civilians and trying the same excuse.
It's not a "random" bombing, Hezbollah has been bombing the shit out of northern Israel for the last year (More than 8000 rockets since October), including firing rockets into cities such as Haifa, Qiryat Shemona and Nahariyya. Note that Hezbollah started this whole thing when they started firing into Israel on October 8th. Lebanon either does not want, or cannot, take care of Hezbollah, and yes sadly innocents and civilians are paying a price for it.
I didn't say it was.
These are your words: "wonder how the US would react to some random country dropping a bomb". This is not some "random" country just bombing Dahieh out of nowhere or whatever, and does not reflect the current situation at all in any manner.
Is this target of yours, the head of a terrorist organization bombing Germany from US soil, in this story of yours?
This is such a disingenuous take. You're describing this as if there is some target that Israel just wanted to kill, and there's nothing else going on. Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets into Israel FROM LEBANON since October 2023. Israel should not "ask permission" in-order to defend itself. This has been going on for almost a year. Lebanon cannot, or will not, take care of Hezbollah. It's not like there's some sort of effort from the Lebanese army. What would the US do if some terrorist organization from Mexico started bombing San Diego or San Antonio?
I understand completely. If there existed an organization with an arsenal of tens of thousands of rockets, which fired thousands of rockets from Mexico into the US, and the Mexican government and army did nothing about it, the US should just suck it up instead of randomly attacking targets of that organization in Mexico.
This the Reuters story on first Hezb attack in the conflict after Oct 7.
Not going down this rabbit hole again, even by international law and the UN the Sheba Farms are not a part of Lebanon.
It was contested by Syria and Lebanon, but Syria deferred to the latter. Its a small technicality that should have no bearing on the MAIN FACT that Israel is illegally occupying land that is not theirs to begin with.
That's not actually true. Here is an article from l'orient today from January 2024 which shows how Syria has repeatedly refused to ceed it officially or sign anything with Lebanon, and in private Syria actually claims that Shebaa Farms are actually Syrian.
I remember we discussed this months back. It goes back to contradictory pre-WW2 French maps that show it both as part of Lebanon and part of Syria. Syria itself has made contradictory statements about at various times, saying it was theirs but then saying its Lebanons. As you may well know Syrias Assad was close to Nasrallah and I dont think it was a point of contention between them. They fought on the same side in the Syrian civil war and pretty sure Assad would not mind Hezb trying to reclaim it from Israeli occupation to be later resolved between them when its returned.
Yet, there is no signed treaty between Syria and Lebanon. Syria have ceded nothing. Assad would or wouldn't mind - it doesn't matter. Syria have never actually signed any document that gives Lebanon control of Shebaa Farms which are still theirs according to international law. Israel has completely left Lebanon according to international law and the UN.
Golan heights are all occupied territory according to international law, I've never claimed otherwise. In general, though, Israel's relationship with Syria has been relatively stable for many years, and there has been mostly animosity between Israel and Hezbollah.
Again, because of an unprovoked attack by Hezbollah where they killed and took the bodies of two Israeli soldiers (at the time, thought to "captured"). In that initial attack they also fired rockets and Shlomi and Zarit, and injured five civilians. Nasrallah has famously stated that if he knew the consequences of that attack, he would have never done it. I can only assume, that if he knew what would happen this time, he wouldn't have joined in Hamas's attack as well. Alas, we will never know.
