Oil from bombed plant covers Lebanon shore

[lema_oda]

This is a shame, and what's worse is that it wasn't necessary. Israel didn't need to bomb that power plant. i would like Israel to justify the military necessity of destroying it. As far as i am concerned that's an example of collective punishment of a civilian population

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[hippyindisguise]

they're destroying the country out from under them (bridges, highways, power stations)

[it's a vendetta on an entire nation, with something relatively mundane as the pretext.]

[mckymouseisdead]

destroying infrastructure is a primary military objective of any attacking nation. Take out the power grids, they can't communicate, bridges they can't move, highways no troops can move and neither can populations or supplies.
Morale plumets, troops starve and the country withers without much loss of life on your side.
Israel has the strongest air force in the nation, plus an ample supply of Balistic missles to do the same sort of thing from hundreds of miles away.

They're also proving a point to the rest of the region that wants it to be destroyed that even combined, nobody in the region has the military force to be able to do so.

[hippyindisguise]

though, it would seem that israel is propagating this as a justifiable retaliation, when they're obviously going through the means of the complete annihilation of the country

[mckymouseisdead]

Indeed they are. They are claiming acts done to them by hezbollah, but attacking the infrastrture of Lebbanon. But they are also making a point that nobody in the region, can do a damn thing about it. They could set the entire region ablaze with their 300 plus nuclear weapons...and nobody in the region could lift a finger. Even Iran with their impressive military capabilities in terms of ground troops could last very long against the Israeli Military or their Airforce.

I doubt they'll completely annhilate Lebannon, they invaded like this back in 1982 as well and 20-30,000 or so people died and for the same reasons too, "state backed terrorism" but hopefully the death toll is nowhere near what it was the last time this happened.