> Countries don't have any "right to exist", this very term is thought terminating propaganda created by Israel. Israel does not have a right to exist, countries either are, or aren't. People have a right to live.

Are you saying Israelis should die?

That is literally what you're saying. When Israel says it has the right to exist it says it has the right not to be under missile attacks. You're saying that it's OK to kill Israelis and Israel shouldn't retaliate in kind?

The amount of misinformation in this thread is absolutely mind boggling.

Lebanon was formed by colonialist French who wanted to build Paris of the middle east and ignored the fact that it housed multiple different ethnic groups that spent the time killing each other. Then Palestinians who failed to topple the Jordan monarchy came in and formed a militia that started attacking Israel. The Suni joined in and it became a national sport to fire rockets at northern Israeli civilians for decades.

That was 50 years ago and the only thing that changed is the people firing the rockets. Israel tried everything. Negotiating. Invading. Bombing. Building their own militia in Lebanon, Negotiating again. Now, it's again out of ideas and also out of civility.

The problem is that Lebanon isn't doing anything. Their government and Army don't control the militias working in their land. Iran is funding these militias remotely and effectively lending people money to build their houses with specialty rooms to house rockets (seriously). I mean these people were so blatant that they literally built Hezbolla tunnels under UN bases...

They are popular in Lebanon since they literally give people money. Press in Lebanon present them as "resistance" to Israel even though they are literally the ones keeping the war going for Iran.

What should a country do after 5 decades of rockets fired at their civilian population?

Enough is enough. Israel has no such problems with "normal" countries like Egypt or Jordan. The problem is Lebanon and to a lesser extent Syria which is hard to trust at this stage. The Syrian problem was also related, Assad was an Iranian collaborator but had a bit more control. When Israel attacked Hezbolla it effectively broke Assad and allowed a transition of power there. Unfortunately, Syria has the same colonialist problems Lebanon has. They aren't a stable country and that's a risk.

The president of Lebanon is calling for talks with Israel now. I hope that will happen but I doubt he can do anything. He wasn't able to do anything before Israel went apeshit and I doubt he'll be able to do anything now. He doesn't run the country, Iran is running the country. Israel tried to target the real landlords but failed there.

Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon