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Israel is taking control of part of Lebanon, because rockets were being shot at Israel from that part of Lebanon. If Israel had not been attacked from there, Israel would not have invaded. That is ethically and morally quite different from Russia's unmotivated war of aggression to annex their neighbor.
Preceeded by israeli terror mass attack they boasted about for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device_attacks
I wonder why Israel has no friends. Maybe because they are an even worse neighbor than russia? And that's all by design?
Which is itself preseeded by Hezbollah attacking Israel.
Why the fuck do you think Israel doesn't have a right to attack Hezbollah, when Hezbollah has attacked Israel? Complete madness and amorality by you.
And only idiots blame Israel for hitting back at Hezbollah, after Hezbollah has attacked Israel.
Link? I think there should be something exceptional to excuse the pager attack. Being a week old account, you should know how to post links [like](that).
I find it funny you default to moral difference or failing for the second time, while talking about a country that casually continues to genocide semites in Gaza well after the ceasefire in a way even the failing austrian artist couldn't have thought possible.
Israel doesn't get a free pass to drop apartment buildings because one dude sent a bottle rocket at Israel. Oppressed people tend to fight back when they are being oppressed. Why does Israel have the right to 'defend' itself when the people being shot and forced out of their homes do not?
Your mental gymnastics amaze me.
I'm not sure 'but they hit me first' is quite the justification for annexation you think it is.
In international law it is. And ethics, actually.
There you go with your international law bullshit again
Granted, that is from Wikipedia, and I only did a cursory search, but I'd say as a jumping off point it doesn't really support the idea of annexing being OK. And ethically, the concept of 'two wrongs don't make a right' is arguably at play here, just because someone might have wronged you, doesn't give you free reign in terms of retaliation.
OK I were imprecise. annexation is not OK. occupation until they stop shooting rockets from Lebanese territory absolutely is OK.
I mean, our entire exchange prior to this has been about annexation, so that's quite the goalpost shift. But assuming you're being sincere, what's the functional difference? Who decides when it's OK to stop 'occupying' and that things can just go back to how they were before? Or does if just continue indefinitely?
Under international law, Israel has an explicit right to fight back, until Hezbollah promises to stop shooting rockets at Israel. It is completely black and white, international law gives the right to fight back.
Hezbollah does. Hezbollah can promise to stop shooting rockets at Israel. Or Lebanon can choose to actually enforce control over Hezbollah.
How would you feel, if your neighboring country was shooting unguided rockets at random at your population centers, I wonder? Would you also feel that it was illegal to invade the neighboring country, to disable the launch sites?
Israel doesn't get a free pass to bomb, assassinate, and colonize wherever they want. People being oppressed fight back. That's the very nature of existence.
Hezbollah started it. International law gives Israel a legal right to fight back.
Your nihilism, utter amorality, and utter ignorance frightens me.
Any why were they shooting rockets from there?
Because they are the proxy of Iran, and Iran uses anti-semitism to distract their population.
Seriously, that is it. Why did you think that Israel and Iran are at war? They are 1000km apart. WTF would Israel care about regime change in Iran, if not just to stop Iran attacking Israel?
Dude at any point, are you going to develop even a meager amount of self-awareness (aim for, say, a field mouse) and understand that Israel are the bad guys?
None of your other points matter.
Israel is the bully and these other countries are just kids stuck in the bully's orbit. And you're siding with the bully. Grats on that, by the way.
Your viewpoint is more one-sided than a mobious strip.
Yes, Israel does some bad shit. But so does Hezbollah.
Israel is committing genocide. People being repressed by an imperialist group tend to fight back against those people oppressing them.
If you "both-sides" any harder, Karl Rove will appear at your house and ask you to join the cult lol
Is Israel committing a genocide in Gaza?
Yes.
Ok, so forgive my crassness, but to my eye, when you say something like that, your viewpoint seems to be analogous to saying "Nazi Germany was wrong for attacking France, but Poland had it coming". I disagree with you, obviously, but I'd like to know why, since we both have access to the same historical facts.
There's more details as to why I disagree with you, but it roughly boils down to: Israel has been committing atrocities since 1948 (and before), it is a colonial project, colonialism is as bad as slavery, Israel invaded Lebanon first in the 80s, killed 3500 Palestinian refugees in two nights there, and kept attacking untill well into the 2000s. In 2024, Israel struck Lebanon first. Is there any part there you disagree with? Because I find it hard to simultaneously believe all that, and that Israel is in the right for invading Lebanon.
Why Poland had it coming? This is not a good example at all.
Can we just agree with the fact that Israel is shit (being a genocidal ethnocracy) and they use the response from shitty regimes to be justify being even shittier? They are both bad, arguably Israel is badder.
What has Poland done? What has Ukraine done? None of them violated the international rule of law at the time.
Russia is super bad, Israel is super bad. Those that support Russia (Iran) and Israel (US) are bad.
Wow you must be very flexible with all the gymnastics you do.
You must be very limited, since you only reply with personal insults.
You're joking right?
You're joking, right?