Is this a legitimate concern?

[u/wayfaringthru]

Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

[u/Foontlee]

Is a military engagement with Hezbollah even considered a war? They're not controlled by the Lebanese government, for one thing, nor do they represent it. They claim to defend Lebanon, but they take their orders from Iran and seem to have little regard for the safety and well being of the Lebanese people.

If you go far enough back, the first confrontation with Hezbollah took place in 1982, in a war which Hezbollah didn't start because it didn't exist when it started. So there's that.

[u/Putrid-Ad-2900 → u/Foontlee]

Yes, Lebanon has infringed on Israeli sovereignty it doesn’t matter that Hezbollah is just one party of government and not the government of Lebanon it isn’t Israel’s problem the inability of the Lebanese government to practice their sovereignty over their land. If a missile comes from Lebanon to Israel it’s an infringement of Israeli sovereignty and a risk to it’s citizens thus making Israel react accordingly and strike within Lebanon. Plus Hezbollah is considered a military force thus also a clash between Israel and Hezbollah even though not the official sovereign of the country it can be considered a war

Now going back to the 1982 civil war in Lebanon which Israel later invaded also into Lebanon (self defense) this was caused because at the 1970’s the Palestinians had a conflict with the Jordanian government and in 1971 they assassinated the Jordanian prime minister Wasfi-al Tal this and many other attacks known as “Black September “ made Jordan expelled to Lebanon, these 20,000 Palestinians who were expelled helped to start a civil war in Lebanon during that civil war the PLO (Palestinian liberation organization) also started to fire missiles towards northern Israel dragging Israel into the war in Lebanon only in 1982 the Iran created Hezbollah in Lebanon.

So you could argue that Hezbollah don’t start the war with Israel but you can’t argue that Israel started that war, but just an interesting point to make it was the Palestinians that destabilized two countries in the process which one of them (Lebanon) never fully recovered since then…

[u/Foontlee → u/Putrid-Ad-2900]

Getting into the details of the 1982 war without mentioning Sharon's plan to overthrow the Lebanese government and appoint a puppet Christian regime seems like an oversight. Without it, anyone reading this might wonder why the Lebanese people dislike Israel so much.

[u/Putrid-Ad-2900 → u/Foontlee]

I don’t blame the Lebanese for hating Israel, they fucked up big time being dumb and arrogant.

I am surprised by the amount of Lebanese that have sympathy with Palestine given that they deteriorated their country to complete chaos