Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by yoavm on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:26PM (#41572973)

First, I forgot an 's there - I meant 1970s. Second, unfortunately for Lebanon, Hezbollah wasn't the only terrorist organization growing in it [0]. "The proximate cause of the Israeli invasion was the Coastal Road massacre that took place near Tel Aviv on 11 March 1978"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_South_Lebanon_conflict

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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by einszwei on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:47PM (#41573207)

Hezbollah was founded in 1982. With benefit of hindsight we can see that while Israel's Lebanon Invasion in 1980s was successful in curbing the PLO who perpetrated the massacre, they created a more formidable adversary in form of Hezbollah.

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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by yoavm on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:59PM (#41573309)

So maybe Israel invading Lebanon in the late 1970s wasn't the best idea. I guess they should have time-traveled to 2024 and consult with you, but unfortunately that didn't happen. However my point wasn't that the invasion was a great idea, but that the initiator of the conflict between Lebanon (or Hezbollah) with Israel is Hezbollah.

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