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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,611 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2024, 02:21 PM Oct 21

Israel targets Hezbollah's financial arm and begins striking Beirut

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s military announced Sunday it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm and will attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions began in Beirut’s southern suburbs about an hour later.

Evacuation warnings affected southern Beirut, the eastern Bekaa valley and parts of southern Lebanon. AP video showed strikes near Lebanon’s only airport but it continued to operate.

The strikes will target al-Qard al-Hassan “all over Lebanon,” a senior Israeli intelligence official said. Al-Qard al-Hassan is a Hezbollah unit that’s used to pay operatives of the Iran-backed militant group and help buy arms, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with army regulations.

The registered nonprofit, sanctioned by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, provides financial services and is also used by ordinary Lebanese. Its name in Arabic means “the benevolent loan,” and Hezbollah has used it to entrench its support among the Shiite population in a country where state and financial institutions have failed in recent years.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-lebanon-10-20-2024-42ea48ce0f6a31d53a25dc50f16796bc

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Israel targets Hezbollah's financial arm and begins striking Beirut (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 21 OP

That war will never end as the warmongers keep on killing by bombing neighboring countries... brush Oct 21 #1

The goal enid602 Oct 21 #2

Explain, please. And be clear in plain English. brush Oct 21 #3

Eretz Yisrael Hashlema enid602 Oct 21 #4

Eretz Yisrael Hashlema may be a nice person but please respond to my OP. brush Oct 21 #5

The Goal enid602 Oct 21 #6

Where do you stand on Netanyahu widening and continuing the war? brush Oct 21 #7

Against enid602 Oct 21 #8

brush

(57,711 posts)

1. That war will never end as the warmongers keep on killing by bombing neighboring countries...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 02:32 PM

Oct 21

instead of accepting victory (as they've killed Hamas and Hezbollah leadership), and sitting down with the honest broker peace negotiators, US Sec'y of State Blinken sent by Pres. Biden being one, and get on with the talks for a ceasefire, hostage release, and substantive discussions for a two-state solution.

Instead with Netanyahu keeps killing in Gaza which is just about flattened with people starving and no supplies allowed in, and now strike after strike in Lebanon. WTH is Bibi doing, just going for endless war?

He's just making new generations of enemies for Israel.

The nation should relieve the warmonger of duties ASAP if it wants peace.

enid602

(9,062 posts)

2. The goal

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 03:12 PM

Oct 21

Eretz Yisrael Hashlema.

brush

(57,711 posts)

3. Explain, please. And be clear in plain English.

Reply to enid602 (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 03:15 PM

Oct 21

enid602

(9,062 posts)

4. Eretz Yisrael Hashlema

Reply to brush (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 03:37 PM

Oct 21

There are different descriptions of the physical limits of Israeli territory according to the Torah. This is the most generous, favored by Smotrich, who is angling to be admitted into the Israeli War Cabinet.

brush

(57,711 posts)

5. Eretz Yisrael Hashlema may be a nice person but please respond to my OP.

Reply to enid602 (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 03:53 PM

Oct 21

Your take on the continued bombing by warmonger Netanyahu.

enid602

(9,062 posts)

6. The Goal

Reply to brush (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 04:52 PM

Oct 21

Israel, under the concept of Eretz YIsrael Hashlema would include parts of Southern Lebanon, the Jordan Valley and Egypt. Many right wing Israelis (and US evangelicals) might want to bomb the fuck out of the Levant to make this concept (found in the Bible) come true,

brush

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7. Where do you stand on Netanyahu widening and continuing the war?

Reply to enid602 (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 05:00 PM

Oct 21

enid602

(9,062 posts)

8. Against

Reply to brush (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 05:06 PM

Oct 21

Absolutely against it, especially when we are in large measure financing it. But, you know if you get religious lunatics (on all sides) in positions of power, this war will continue to widen to the detriment of all.

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