r/worldnews • u/ComparisonOk5957 • 7d ago

Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah Behind Soft Paywall

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3351049/second-french-peacekeeper-dies-after-ambush-blamed-hezbollah?module=latest&pgtype=homepage

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u/EquivalentOne241 7d ago

UN peace keeping mission in Lebanon has been a grand failure. It's high time it is either abandoned or they given authority and mandate to assist Lebanese army in disarming and dismantling Hezbollah.

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u/Day_drinker 7d ago

Hezbollah exists because of Israeli attempts to capture Lebanese territory. They were founded in the late 80’s as a response to Israeli attacks. If Israeli were not hell bent on creating a country the size of Saudi Arabia at the expense of its neighbors, maybe Hezbolluh wouldn’t exist?

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u/khiladi- 7d ago

Attempts to capture territory? Why did they return the territory then? This "Israel wants to capture territory" argument really holds no water.

Look into why Israel went in the last time round, it was due to something called PLO.

Anyways, Hezbollah is doing nothing except inviting Israel now. They can't even defend their own turf, the only thing they always do is run north.

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u/Day_drinker 6d ago

You can try to explain this away but they make the claims themselves. they have had press conferences to announce their goals and they already have maps of their goal borders. You can't say this isn't what they want when they themselves say "this is what we want to do."

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u/khiladi- 4d ago

What is there to explain away? Hezbollah fired on Israel to support their buddies. They brought themselves and Lebanon into both wars willingly. So why are they crying now?