it seems to me that they and iran just wait for Israel to do something they don’t like and fire missles at them

They don’t wait to do anything. They hate Israel for what Israel has done to their Palestinian neighbors as well as to Lebanon and Iran. Hezbollah didn’t just suddenly spring up out of nowhere. The group was literally founded to halt Israeli aggression. This is the only reason Israel hasn’t occupied Lebanon and oppressed them the way they oppress the Palestinians.

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Pretty fitting username for this post lol.

Criticizing and condemning Israel is like criticizing and condemning Trump. They just have so little shame and display their crimes so blatantly that it’s just so stupidly simple to call it out.

This is a good example of what happens when technology moves faster than our governments can legislate. We don’t live in a world where companies genuinely care about what affect their products will have on people. We rely on the government to care for us. Problem is, even when the government actually does the needed actions, it’s usually too late.

A lemur?

To many Israelis, there is now little to lose: Iran’s efforts to strike the urban sprawl around Tel Aviv crossed a threshold that Tehran has never previously breached, even during its earlier missile attack in April, which targeted air bases but not civilian areas.

Glad to see Israel finally admit that attacking civilian centers is bad.

I would say the polonium needle example you provided would be an example of a much more precise and targeted attack, yes. I still fail to see how you could define the blowing up a bunch of pagers as targeted. Even if the pagers were meant exclusively for Hezbollah. The only way I could kind of see your argument is if all targets were confirmed to be in military bases or something like that. The fact that these were blown up in civilian areas like homes, schools, stores, etc and that civilians actually died because of it, discredits the “targeted” claim in my opinion.

Lemmy as a whole tends to lean against what Israel is doing, thankfully. Something I personally find is when voicing these kinds of opinions, I tend to start with a few downvotes and then as the post gets traction and more people see it the upvotes actually start rolling in (still with some downvotes though). Seems like there are a few pro-Zionist accounts browsing new based on my experiences. I guess we’ll see if this comment follows that trend.

They’re different things but they do complement each other. You can’t have a targeted attack without some high level of precision. I’m genuinely struggling to think of an example a “targeted attack” without some kind of precision applied in the attack.

All I did was explain why Nasrallah probably didn’t leave after being warned of the assassination attempt. Right now Hezbollah is the only thing stopping/slowing down Israel occupying Lebanon. And given how we’ve seen what Israel does to the native population of it’s occupied territories (i.e. Palestine). I don’t see how Israel being allowed to do what they want to Lebanon would be good for the Lebanese population.

Israel will also be able to get some peace if they didn’t start instigating fights and wars and commit mass genocide. That’s also an alternative.

The where/how/when answers you provided need to be a lot more specific to fit the definition of targeted. A proper example of a targeted attack would be the US assassination of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Israel has been trying to assassinate Nasrallah for a very long time. He was one of the few figures in the region who actually stood up to them and didn’t run scared or submit to them. I don’t see any way where Nasrallah would have voluntarily left, no matter how credible the threat. If anything he likely would have used this information to prepare Hezbollah for his death to make sure the fight goes on. Hezbollah is still inflicting Israeli casualties even after Nasrallah and so much of their senior leadership has died. Time will tell if these plans are enough though. I hope they are, for the sake of the Lebanese population.

At least several children were killed. You’re missing the point though. A targeted attack means you want to attack a single individual and know exactly where, how, and when to attack. Israel just pressed a button and blew up a bunch of pagers without actually knowing who they would hurt.

Who’s going to stop them?

Israel had no way of knowing who was holding or beside the pager when they blew them up. Hence, the civilian casualties and why it wasn’t actually targeted. I know Israel has a pretty low enemy combatant to civilian kill ratio but just because this was slightly more targeted than their usual selves doesn’t mean it was actually targeted.

They’ve been calling for its destruction because of the unfair and unjust treatment Israel has inflicted on the Arab population.

So POTUS was comfortable with attacking hoping it would force a ceasefire? They didn’t stop to think that maybe warlord Netanyahu has no interest in a ceasefire? Something is fishy here.

If Israel’s treatment of its neighbors and its own non-Jewish citizens was fair and just then they wouldn’t need to worry about these kinds of attacks.

Then it wasn’t targeted. Blowing up a bunch of IEDs with no way to verify who they’re hurting is not a targeted attack. It’s an act of terror on a civilian population.