Middle East crisis: Lammy to visit Bahrain and Jordan – as it happened
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Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Lebanese people that they could face “destruction and suffering” like the Palestinians in Gaza if they don’t “free” the country from Hezbollah.

“You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza,” the Israeli prime minister said in a video address directed to the people of Lebanon.

“I say to you, the people of Lebanon: Free your country from Hezbollah so that this war can end.”

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 days ago

    No. There’s a very clear link…

    Here’s the person in charge of Israeli police:

    Ben-Gvir has been convicted eight times for offenses that include racism and supporting a terrorist organization. As a teen, his views were so extreme that the army banned him from compulsory military service.

    Ben-Gvir gained notoriety in his youth as a follower of the late racist rabbi Meir Kahane. He first became a national figure when Ben-Gvir famously broke a hood ornament off then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s car in 1995.

    “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too,” he said, just weeks before Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist opposed to his peace efforts with the Palestinians.

    Two years later, Ben-Gvir took responsibility for orchestrating a campaign of protests, including death threats, that forced Irish singer Sinead O’Connor to cancel a concert for peace in Jerusalem.

    https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-bengvir-jerusalem-alaqsa-cd27dfed6d63f4dec3eae2f51ee23ff0

    When you put a racist terrorist in charge of National Security. It’s pretty impossible to seperate the administration from racist terrorists…

    • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us
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      18 days ago

      When you put a racist terrorist in charge of National Security. It’s pretty impossible to seperate the administration from racist terrorists…

      That’s a good point. So, as far as I know, Ben-Gvir isn’t directly associated with the folks behind the fake ad. However, that’s missing the forest for the trees. The point is that it’s too easy to see him and Bibi being behind the group.