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Hezbollah bombards Israeli positions in disputed area along border with Syria’s Golan Heights (apnews.com)

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Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group fired dozens of rockets and shells on Sunday at three Israeli positions in a disputed area along the country’s border with Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Hezbollah said in a statement that the attack using “large numbers of rockets and shells” was in solidarity with the “Palestinian resistance.” It said the Israeli positions were directly hit.

Israel’s military fired back at the Lebanese areas, but there was no immediate word on casualties.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist, and also a hero.

Being a terrorist, objectively with no emotional connotations connected, is about tactics. Plenty of freedom fighters use terroristic tactics. Plenty of groups that aren't labelled terrorists use terrorist tactics. A key strategy in warfare is to inspire fear in your enemies. The underdog always has these tactics in his back pocket, and often it's his most powerful weapon. Sometimes he's a brute and a wannabe dictator or aspiring genocide committer, sometimes he's a freedom fighter, often enough he's both.

At the end of the day, all warfare involves killing people for strategic reasons. It's brutal. Hurling mud with the word "terrorist" does nobody any good in understanding the situation. It is very useful though in propagandizing a population and bypassing their critical thinking capability for an emotional reaction. Sanitizing war though as if there's a good boy type behavior and a bad boy type behavior is senseless. In war, the worst things that can happen to people happen to people, always and forever. People engaging in war do what they need to do. Whether its right or wrong depends on whether you buy their narrative about their motivations, and whether you have unwavering universally applied principles of right and wrong.