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Israeli strike on Lebanon kills senior commander in elite Hezbollah unit (www.reuters.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah's elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters.

The security sources identified him as Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy head of a unit within the Radwan force. They said he and another Hezbollah fighter were killed when their car was hit in a strike on the Lebanese village of Majdal Selm.

"This is a very painful strike," one of the security sources said. Another said, "things will flare up now."

Israeli bombardment has killed more than 130 Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon since cross-border shelling began in the aftermath of Hamas's attack on Israeli territory on Oct. 7. Another 19 have been killed in Syria.

Hezbollah's secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel in two televised addresses last week not to launch a full-scale war on Lebanon.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Israel has never been alone since the day it became a nation.

... having the backing of America, specifically militarily, has led Israel to "a great success story," helping it survive wars that broke out in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973. Source

The U.S. has given Israel $158 billion since Israel was founded, not adjusting for inflation, according to the Congressional Research Service. That makes Israel one of the biggest recipients of U.S. foreign aid since World War II. Source

Between 2001 and 2020, Israel received more military aid from the US than all other nations combined. Source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where are these quotes from?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I put the source after each quote.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hmm. My Memmy app doesn’t have the hyperlink. All I see is the word “Source” which sucks I guess lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh, sorry about that. Here they are in order.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/history-us-support-israel-runs-deep-growing-chorus/story?id=104957109

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/10/23/a-look-at-the-history-of-u-s-aid-to-israel/

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-aid-spending-israel-military-defense-gaza-war-2023-10?op=1&r=US&IR=T

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I was specifically curious about the first source as I have heard from other sources (namely Behind the Bastards) that the US initially did not care much for Israel, the Soviets helped more, and it wasn’t until the early 60s after an aggressive lobbying campaign was Israel a solid US ally.

The Wikipedia page on the 1948 Arab-Israeli war has this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

Up to 100,000 Arabs, from the urban upper and middle classes in Haifa, Jaffa and Jerusalem, or Jewish-dominated areas, evacuated abroad or to Arab centres eastwards.[40]

This situation caused the United States to withdraw its support for the Partition Plan, encouraging the Arab League to believe that the Palestinian Arabs, reinforced by the Arab Liberation Army, could put an end to the plan. However, the British decided on 7 February 1948 to support the annexation of the Arab part of Palestine by Transjordan.[41]

And later:

Thanks to funds raised by Golda Meir from sympathisers in the United States, and Stalin's decision to support the Zionist cause, the Jewish representatives of Palestine were able to sign very important armament contracts in the East.

Which suggests that initially the US government did not support Israel as the ABC article suggests. The reporting seems to get around the factual claims by just quoting their source, but I think that “Democrats for Israel” dude is stretching his historical claims.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

America has had some issues with Israel over the years, but for the most part the US has backed it almost fully since its inception.

CNN has a well-rounded synopsis (link below) that shows both the good and not-so-good history between the two nations.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/11/politics/presidents-israel-cnn/index.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

All good. :)