Inexpensive fiber-optic drones are challenging Israel’s high-tech defenses, shifting the military balance in the Middle East.

A recent video showing an explosive-laden drone striking an Israeli Iron Dome battery couldn’t have been more symbolic: Israel’s famous air-defense system, which cost billions of euros, looked powerless against a small aircraft that cost a few hundred euros.

While the video’s authenticity has not yet been verified, experts believe it is genuine.

The footage was published about a week ago by Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based pro-Iranian militia, which Germany, the US and several Sunni Arab states have classified as a terrorist organization.

The drone strike, if genuine, would mark propaganda victory for Hezbollah and reveal a significant vulnerability in Israel’s military capabilities.

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    10 days ago

    the fact that Israel is invading Lebannon

    Is because Hezbollah is based there…

    I’m defending Israel, this is a (not even rare) situation where every government (and non state militant organization) is a piece of shit their citizens would be better off without.

    That shouldn’t be hard to understand, but there’s a weird amount of pro-Iran accounts the last couple months, and they just won’t understand it

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      Equating a settler colonialist fascist state with a resistance group born out of resisting that ethnic cleansing is actually insane

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      I´m talking about the difference between journalism and propaganda; you don´t think it’s a little weird to come away from an article like this knowing Hezabollah is a terrorist organization according to Germany, the US, and several Sunni Arab states, but not that their country is currently being invaded with tanks?

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        but not that their country

        Non state organizations do not have their own country’s…

        Hezbollah is based in Lebanon and Lebanon is being invaded, that is not the same as Hezbollah is being invaded.

        Like, you’re mad at an explanation in the article but you obviously need the explanation…

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          It would be fair to mention that Israel is led by a wanted war criminal, if you are going to use language to demonise and delegitimise one side the other side should be treated in a balanced manner.

          The fact that the war Israel is currently being led by a war criminal is important because it makes the reader question whether the decision to invade Lebanon is just as it is being done by a known and wanted war criminal.

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            It would be fair to mention that Israel is led by a wanted war criminal

            So is America and Iran…

            It’s not any different, if anything you should be arguing everyone involved is terrible.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Lebanese_general_election

        Tldr:

        They have 15 seats when 65 is needed for a majority.

        Is it weird that a political party is openly aligned with a militant non state organization?

        Yep.

        But it still doesn’t mean Hezbollah is being invaded, or that they’re Lebanon’s government.

        Lebanon is being invaded, and a large amount of them never signed up for this shit.

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          Right, none of them did, that is why Israel is engaging in war crimes.

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            none of them did,

            I legitimately don’t know what you’re referring to…

            that is why Israel is engaging in war crimes

            They were doing war crimes before they attacked Lebanon

            It feels like you understand “Israel bad” but none of the actual facts or details. That’s very dangerous because billionaires are gonna point you

            You need to understand more than “Israel bad” that’s not enough.

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      Why does Hezbollah exist again? What force drove the Shi’a of southern Lebanon to band together and create Hezbollah?

      The answer to that question proves the lie of your statements.

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      Is because Hezbollah is based there…

      I’m defending Israel, this is a (not even rare) situation where every government (and non state militant organization) is a piece of shit their citizens would be better off without.

      That shouldn’t be hard to understand, but there’s a weird amount of pro-Iran accounts the last couple months, and they just won’t understand it

      Just in case no one else noticed it.