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Lebanon as a country was never a real threat to Israel but the PLO terrorist organization that started the civil war after trying to take over Jordan.

The Lebanese government let Hezbollah get the way it is by first allowing the PLO into south Lebanon bowing to Syria and having no backbone and shit military and now they suffer for it.

Do you think Israel was jealous of the Paris of the middle east and set up Hezbollah to take over?

> And? Not much has changed from that fact

Your whole argument was that Hezbollah is good for Israel, how thousands of rocket aiming at your population centers good for Israel? That's why what you wrote is bull.

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> Your whole argument was that Hezbollah is good for Israel, how thousands of rocket aiming at your population centers good for Israel? That's why what you wrote is bull.

You have half of middle east pointing rockets at Israel. In comparison with Hezbollah takeover effectively making Lebanon a non-country, price-benefit ratio is not simply positive, but overwhelmingly in Israel's favour.

In contrast with Syria, where the Iranian support tries to preserver the existing state, and where Israel clashed with it to the point they began aiding Syrian rebels.

I can't see how you mentioned Egypt and Saudi Arabia as dreaded regimes but see Iranian supporting the Syrian regime as positive where they are the same and even worse on some accounts. Syria needs to be split up into at least 3 or 4 countries that's why there was so much internal tension there but you want to preserve the current ruthless regime who bombed their own civilians by the 100s of thousands, despicable.

They don't preserver the existing state they plan to take over and rule from a far.

> Israel clashed with it to the point they began aiding Syrian rebels

Israel assisted the rebels by giving medical aid so they won't hurt the druze population in Syria because the druze in Israel are blood relatives and enlist in the Israeli military that's a far cry from suppling weapons and intel

> overwhelmingly in Israel's favour.

You still didn't explain how.

> Iranian supporting the Syrian regime as positive

I don't see it as positive at all.

Just saying that Israel has no problem with Iranians in Lebanon when if they mess up local establishment, but have it in Syria because there Iran is pro-existing regime.

> You still didn't explain how.

Hezbollah ruined Lebanese political establishment, and the state at the same time. Effectively, they made it a blank space on the map as it is now.

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