NoneOfUrBusiness

So that’s the history of the dreaded “October surprise”.

How does Israel’s economy come into play here? This is about Middle Eastern people boycotting a bunch of American franchises and other stuff in (sometimes misguided) solidarity with Gaza.

Oh I see. That makes sense, and gives me some hope for the future.

Most (including US) current generation weapons systems have been untested.

Hasn’t a lot of it been tested in Ukraine and Gaza? That’s part of why Israel is useful for the West; they get to test their shiny new toys.

In other words, using qualifiers like inferior or superior for literally untested weapons(and yes, weapons are untested until used against an enemy) Is purely a faith/propaganda thing.

This makes sense in a conflict between equals, but for example Hezbollah literally doesn’t have an air force. Which makes sense because they’re a paramilitary organization, but like yeah it’s not really a question who’s outgunning who here. Hezbollah, and Russian aligned countries in general, primarily use old Soviet models which were at best on equal footing with contemporary Western models. Meanwhile the IDF is one of the most modern armies in the world, only being manned by morons.

If you need more proof that Hezbollah is outgunned here, then look at the state of Southern Lebanon compared to Northern Israel.

It must be remembered that Ukraine is using Western arms so while they’re losing in numbers their equipment is of superior quality. Hezbollah doesn’t have that advantage, and in fact it’s the opposite since they rely on inferior Russian and Iranian gear.

You didn’t contradict anything they said, so…

They never had the moral high ground.

However Iran is as big a threat to Israel as the average US citizen.

How so?

That explains why their tertiary education union passed a resolution stating its members have a right to express anti-Zionist ideology.

They tripped on bullets that were peacefully commuting to work at 4000 km/h

It’d be genius, if anything. Soon enough that people will know it and vote for her (the majority of Democrats support conditioning Israeli aid), too late for AIPAC’d propaganda machine to push the election towards Trump.

MBFC is heavily biased in favor of Israel.

Yeah I know that, and in fact am not one to trust their ratings unconditionally, but they don’t outright lie to my knowledge.

Their failed fact checks appear to be three videos which predated the article and were thus misreports.

Yeah that makes sense.

Western newspapers should have had all their falsified reports about beheaded babies rated as misinformation but those are not mentioned.

Definitely true.

Apparently they failed three fact checks on mediabiasfactcheck.com, so you can check that. Also even if they don’t falsely report they can omit information or put a spin on things (for example in this case there could be other targets in this round of bombings that don’t sound as good and were left out). In these cases it’s better as a rule to compare the reporting with that of other sources.

I mean it is a Lebanese paper but it’s also notoriously biased towards Iran (and therefore Hezbollah) and Syria, and Hezbollah is suspected to be their source of funding. They’re just not the most likely to impartially report on Hezbollah’s activities in the same way people don’t unconditionally trust Al-Jazeera’s reporting on Qatar. Also the title is oozing bias for something that’s not an opinion peace.

Okay reporting is reporting but speaking as another pro-Palestinian guy couldn’t you have found a better source?