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“Lebanese Maronite Catholic priest Fr. Pierre al-Rahi, … was killed in this village in southern Lebanon during an Israeli artillery tank fire on a house March 9, 2026 … al-Rahi had earlier refused, along with other priests, to obey an order by the Israeli military to evacuate the Christian village of Qlayaa”
https://www.ncronline.org/news/lebanese-maronite-catholic-pr...
This article references at least three Christian villages that were recently attacked.
Qlayaa, priest killed by shelling
Debil, dozen homes blown up over past couple of days alone
Alma al-Shaab, where an another priest says his brother was killed in an air strike a couple of days ago.
This article references 4 more:
https://nowlebanon.com/israeli-strikes-on-christian-villages...
“Aitou (is) the latest in a series of strikes on Christian-majority villages. Ehmej, Mayrouba, and Qatarba have been other recent targets”
That’s a total of 7 that I found in like 5 minutes of Kagi search of English language news.
I think they are hardly disciplined here.
Does anyone still believe this? I mean, even if it's technically true, it is very well known Hezbollah sneaks as close as they can to UN bases, and then fires rockets at Israeli civilians from there, intentionally. And yes, I'm sure that this creates more than a bit of tension.
But even if that did result in a firefight ... it's not Israel that's responsible. Nobody seriously believes that.
"Oops, our tanks opened fire on UN forces." Is a weird defense of it keeps happening. Once, maybe, but a healthy military would learn to stop that in the future. Mistakes happen. Repeated mistakes seem like a strategy.
"Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel in response to the United States-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli forces have also launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/5/at-least-14-people-k...
> Israel's self defense actions
> this is a war crime
Wow-wow just stop that bs. Without israel that region would be much safer.
Wow-wow just stop that bs. Without Israel people in the region would be murdering each other just like they did in Syria, in the Iran-Iraq war, in Yemen, in Lebanon's civil war etc. Maybe if those countries stopped attacking Israel they wouldn't be in war Mr. warmonger.
EDIT: It's worth mentioning that an attack on another country is not a legal reason according to international law to attack a third country. The critics of Israel and the US are claiming those started an "illegal war" on Iran so by that same rationale Lebanon started an illegal war on Israel.
Maybe if Israel stopped violently expropriating Arab lands, and assaulting and raping Arabs without consequences. It’s really not that complicated.
This is objectively happening in the West Bank and Gaza.
> assaulting and raping Arabs without consequences.
This is also objectively happening. A group of IDF soldiers were filmed raping a man to death. Their punishment? Literally nothing. They are cheered by some.
You cannot possibly believe that these sorts of behaviors are helping calm things.
That's not true, he's alive and was released to Gaza in a hostage-for-prisoner exchange.
> Their punishment? Literally nothing.
It's probably hard to win a case without the victim to testify. The video is something, but far too low-quality to prove who did what beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutors can't ignore evidentiary standards and don't like to lose cases.
At least they were detained and investigated. Can you say the same of the individuals who paraded their rape victims around the streets of Gaza?
That said, when Ben-Gvir says any action is justifiable, including rape, in defense of Israel and when the person who leaked the video gets arrested and when a poll by the Israeli Democracy Institute finds the majority of Israelis support not investigating claims of rape it's very difficult for me to be credulous towards the idea that these are just a couple bad apples.
Yes, he was merely hospitalized with life-threatening internal bleeding.
However there is at least one case of a death by rape, maybe he got confused?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/24/dying-in-hell-pale...
There are so many instances of sexual violence perpetrated by Israeli security forces and settlers, it’s hard to keep track.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240317080119/https://news.un.o...
https://www.972mag.com/sde-teiman-prisoners-lawyer-mahajneh/...
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/18/middleeast/west-bank-resi...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-settlers-alleged-to-bind-s...
> rape victims around the streets of Gaza
Most Gazans don’t believe Hamas raped anyone. It’s disingenuous to claim they were celebrating rape. Can you please share any public, non-anonymous accounts from Oct 7th either rape victims or witnesses?
Conversely, Israeli politicians and protestors have explicitly agitate for the right to rape detainees.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-idf-palestinia...
Is the idea that it's okay to post misinformation about Israelis because Israelis are bad? If I can identify several Canadian criminals, then since we've established that Canadians are bad people, is it fine to post misinformation about other Canadians?
>>> Maybe if Israel stopped violently expropriating Arab lands, and assaulting and raping Arabs without consequences. It’s really not that complicated.
>> This is nonsense and you know it.
It’s apparent from the copious evidence presented here (with which you do not engage) that the original claim was, in fact, not nonsense. A real counter-argument would show 1) that these events did not occur or 2) that there were consequences for the assailants.
> Then Israel has at least several criminals, just like every other country on the planet.
Irrelevant false balance on a literally global scale. May I use this example in the logic text I’ve been workshopping?
If someone wants to make a serious argument about a systematic problem in Israel, that requires data, not a few accusations. For example, at least 10 of 110 released hostages were reportedly sexually assaulted in Hamas captivity [1], and there were zero arrests for it.
If Gazan detainees in Israeli custody experienced SA at the same rate, that would be over a thousand cases of SA. The parent also broadened their search to include SA allegations against Israelis in the West Bank, so they would need to show ~300k cases just to argue equivalence.
If we were to accept all the parent's sources as reliable, that's 12 reported cases of SA. They're 0.004% of the way there.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/sexual-assault-hamas-oct-7-attack...
This is an aggressive misreading of OP. Many countries’ militaries are routinely criticized for the sexual assault perpetrated by their soldiers. When US soldiers do it in Okinawa, for example, they can and have been turned over to local authorities, and their actions are disavowed. [1] Criticism of this pattern of sexual assault in Okinawa is not a call for the military to uphold some “impossible standard.”
If you want to try again to generate a valid counter-argument to OP you need to research SA committed by IDF soldiers and demonstrate that it falls under either 1) or 2) above, or some other form of logical refutation. Presenting yet more data about Hamas is neither effective nor persuasive to that end.
[1] https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-09-24/mar...
The original claim was that terrorists might stop attacking Israel if it stopped "assaulting and raping Arabs without consequences". So which way are we to read it?
- Israel is being held to an impossible standard of zero crime, or a 100% conviction rate for suspected crimes.
- Or Israel is being accused of having a prolific, systematic problem, with no data to support the accusation.
This is indeed my assertion.
> no data to support the accusation.
Given that you video evidence of a rape along with the documented injuries of the survivor doesn’t meet your evidentiary standards, I doubt that anything would actually convince you, but it’s well documented that Israeli’s act with impunity against Palestinians in a number of contexts.
E.g.
“3% of the investigations (into settler violence) ended with a conviction”
https://www.yesh-din.org/en/data-sheet-law-enforcement-on-is...
As to what's common between Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran in the way they treat their civilians I will leave that as an exercise to the reader.
Most modern instances of ethnic cleansing are justified as military necessities.
E.g.: Armenian genocide
“Article 1—During war time, army and corp commanders and their deputies and commanders of fortified posts are obliged to destroy any assault or resistance and violently restore order with military forces in the case of opposition, armed attacks or resistance directed against the government orders, the defense of homeland and the preservation of public order.
Article 2—Army, independent corp and division commanders are allowed to transfer and relocate the village and town population in matters related to the military affair or if they feel there is an activity of espionage and treason.”
One can believe both parties are committing atrocities, even if the scale is clearly different between them.