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‘As if we don’t exist’: Under bombs in Lebanon, Americans feel abandoned

www.aljazeera.com ‘As if we don’t exist’: Under bombs in Lebanon, Americans feel abandoned

Critics say the US rushed to evacuate its citizens in Israel last year. For Lebanon, the response has been much slower.

Critics say the US rushed to evacuate its citizens in Israel last year. For Lebanon, the response has been much slower.

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At first I really wanted to say "good, now they are treated the same as the Lebanese people living alongside them" but no, that definitely isn't "good" by any real measure of this word. I hope this whole tragedy will stop soon.
- It won't stop until either Israel is disarmed or there is a complete change of people in charge of Israel and criminals like Netanyahu, his entire government and IDF commanders are sent to prison.
  
  That latter option won't cause much change. Israel is, as a state and as a people, ideologically poisoned. They need something on the level of the denazification of Germany before you can hope for any change.
  
  Disarming Israel will make the war stop just like how disarming Ukraine would make that war stop as well.
  
  ... or all of Radical Islam admits the cost is too high and gives up their pointless hate.
- I get what you're saying. It frustrates me that anyone thinks citizenship matters when it comes to civilians getting bombed.
  
  I mean morally it doesn't, but it should matter for the US that it's citizens are getting bombed. More than just a moral failure, America not acting to protect those citizens indicates its failure as a state. It's very much worth pointing out.
There are 6,000 Americans trying to leave. We've evacuated 100.

What the fuck is going with my country? Biden was supposed to be a vote for the status quo after a crazy 4 years but now it feels like we're right back in the Trump years.
- It's neoliberalism protecting capitalism
  
  Nah, there's nothing about capitalism to protect here. I would agree that's part of their support for Israel, but not getting our own people out of the way doesn't make sense with that.
  
  You misspelled "nazism". Israel is a Nazi state, starting from racial laws, imperialism and occupation and ending on the genocide.
- Responded to the wrong comment- pre coffee. Not braining today, deleted it with an apology for off-topic’ing your discussion.
- Was listening to (I think NPR) this morning on the way home from the airport and they were doing their world news program. On it they had two leading experts on foreign affairs and international politics.
  
  A listener asked- why is America supporting Israel.
  
  BOTH of these experts, (neither were American for the record) went on a LOOOONG bit about how it’s incredibly nuanced and goes back to 1948. They illustrated that it’s not at all easy thing to do.
  
  Now we have two options here. We can follow the advice of an internet random that seems to not know Jack-shit on the subject of trade agreements- and thinks… “just stop doing it!” Is the solve….
  
  or we can accept that even the experts who know far more on the topic are saying that it’s incredibly complicated…
  
  Hmmmm…
  
  What should we do?
- You may have acute amnesia
Well, that's because they are.
Paying taxes to fund the bombs that kill you:
I don't know what sane American would be in Lebanon, but then again there's Americans who get it in their fool heads to go to active war zones all the time. Like they're fucking tourists to a war, not even to fight. Not to mention North Korea.
- America has lot's Lebanese people. They're just there to visit their families. Lebanon wasn't an active war zone until Israel decided it was. Thanks to being enabled by America.
  
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  Hezbollah has been launching rockets at Israel for a year now, they were the ones who made it a war zone, Israel just decided to finally respond to being attacked.
- Uh... There are Lebanese American people who want to visit their families. It's dangerous, but for many people worth the danger when their homes aren't suddenly made into active warzones.
- The 50+ year old Lebanese immigrants in Dearborn would like you kick your ass for you

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