106 pointsby pera4 hours ago8 comments
  • fithisux2 hours ago
    We need these news on HN too.
  • nojvek2 hours ago
    As usual anything Israel gets flagged.

    From tech perspective, technology builders now need to be extra aware how it’s used.

    Is releasing the next autonomous algo/library worth it?, if the US department of war with their friends can use that tech to kill more people.

    Especially when more and more weapons become autonomous. Targets are chosen based on LLM hallucinations.

    In 2026, we are the baddies.

    More than tech we need to vote to reign in the Department of War spending. It will be the death of American Empire.

    The white cells meant to protect, have become cancerous.

  • andrepd3 hours ago
    Took so long to get flagged? I'm surprised...

    If the US–Iran front of the war is relevant for hn I don't see why the Israel–Lebanon one wouldn't.

  • hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm4 hours ago
    One of the most diverse countries in the world and still very little attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Lebanon
    • lostlogin4 hours ago
      There used to be a weekly column in the Independent by Robert Fisk, and it frequently discussed life in Lebanon. It sounded amazing, though often rather too war torn.

      The Independent seems to have gone to garbage for n recent years, sadly.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk

    • neeeeeeal4 hours ago
      One religion seems to be missing from this list of “diversity”. Hmmmm…
  • lovegrenoble4 hours ago
    Stop Israel's aggression and genocide.
    • abdusco3 hours ago
      Not letting Israel kill thousands because ... just because is antisemitic!
  • ck24 hours ago
    No more offensive weapons

    Let them buy all the defensive weapons they can afford, Iron Dome, etc.

    I think US gives them the weapons otherwise, they don't even buy them? No more.

    It is insanity to let them just kill whomever they want whenever they want as many as they want

    Israel has a right to exist but not kill thousands of innocent people

    They also have universal healthcare while US never will because we've spent $21 Trillion since 9/11 on militarization, adding another trillion this year and now have to replace all the tomahawks etc

    • hebelehubele3 hours ago
    • sgt4 hours ago
      They will just start making their own offensive weapons.
      • A_D_E_P_T4 hours ago
        They're import-reliant. They don't make steel, don't make aluminum, don't have a large chemicals industry, etc. They're very vulnerable to sanctions and trade restrictions.
      • dewey4 hours ago
        Start? They have a large military sector already with IAI, Elbit etc.
    • hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm4 hours ago
      No, just give them nothing. "Right to exist" is a bullshit propaganda term. Doesn't mean anything.
      • A_D_E_P_T4 hours ago
        If it were me, we'd go a step further and apply sanctions, just as e.g. Russia and Myanmar are sanctioned.
      • tarkin24 hours ago
        It frames themselves as under attack, which thereby gives themselves moral justification to attack, and when those attacked attack back they fulfill their justification, and the circle of violence and death perpetuates.
    • well_ackshually4 hours ago
      >Israel has a right to exist

      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.

      And as it stands, Israel is a terrorist nation commiting war crimes and a genocide daily.

      "Defensive" weapons also do not exist. If you give Israel weapons, or sell them weapons, you are complicit in their actions.

      • constantius3 hours ago
        > thought-terminating propaganda

        Exactly. I always struggled with this (which is the desired effect) until I heard Francesca Albanese give this exact answer.

        There is no right to exist for a country under international law, but there is a right to live for people.

      • invalidname2 hours ago
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        • sgt2 hours ago
          What he's saying is that Israel itself doesn't have a right to exist based on international law, but its people - be it Israelis or Palestinians have a right to live.
          • invalidname2 hours ago
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            • well_ackshuallyan hour ago
              Palestinians are already being hurt by israelis, Palestinian land was stolen by israelis, Palestinians are being put in open air concentration camps by israelis, humiliated, abused, starved, killed, hunted down, so excuse me for not caring much about your "problematic statement". Countries have no legitimacy to exist, however they do have history: Israel as a state is a lot more illegitimate in its existence than a Palestinian state, and considering it is the state committing a genocide right now and it doesn't seem to be sticking: Israel doesn't have a right to exist, and the state that is right now Israel is also a terrorist, genocidal one.

              Israelis forced themselves in stolen, colonised land, settled with violence, used the weapons of the western colonizers against local populations and actively worked to destroy every attempt at peaceful cooperation that there has ever been, member of Israel's current government having actively called for the murder of Rabin and might very well be directly involved in it. Israel has made it so that the situation effectively ends with either Israelis dying, or the whole region dying.

              • invalidnamean hour ago
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                • well_ackshually42 minutes ago
                  >I suggest you focus on the present

                  >Uses the age old "hurr actually the name Palestine was Judea"

                  Ok Mossad. Israel attacked Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, is a terrorist country and doesn't have the right to exist. Israel is the one killing Palestinians and Lebanese citizens right now.

                  (PS: you know people see through when you post 50 prepared paragraphs of Zionist propaganda, right?)

                  • invalidname31 minutes ago
                    > Ok Mossad.

                    You're going down to name calling. Not insulted. Just shows you have no independent thought process or the ability to separate historical fact from fiction.

                    > Israel attacked Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Egypt, Jordan

                    When?

                    In 1947? Nope.

                    In 1967 when they surrounded Israel and tried to destroy it? Yep.

                    Got over it though and made peace with those who are able to make it. Gave back more territory (relatively to its size) than pretty much any non-empire in history.

                    > Israel is the one killing Palestinians and Lebanese citizens right now.

                    That's a very broad statement. But yes, people are dying. It's indeed horrible. Israelis also died in this ongoing war and before it. This war didn't start out of a void. It started because of people like you who refuse to accept that Israel is here. As long as you live under that delusion and keep attacking, Israel will keep fighting back and getting more right-wing.

                    I don't want that. The solution is for both sides to calm the f*ck down. De-legitimizing it doesn't help.

                    > (PS: you know people see through when you post 50 prepared paragraphs of Zionist propaganda, right?)

                    Right, sure. I'm a bot.

                    Let go of the confirmation bias for a second and think, maybe you might be wrong. Maybe you're hurting the people you pretend to care about. Maybe you're not a white savior but rather a chaos agent working for Iran and Putin.

  • drekipus4 hours ago
    Daily reminder that "championing human rights in the middle east" is the easiest thing in the world if you get to determine who is considered "human" and who is considered "cattle".
    • andrepd3 hours ago
      "We have democracy for some of our citizens" is not the flex they think it is.
      • devilkin3 hours ago
        Not sure what country you are referring to, Iran? USA? Israel? Libanon?
        • bulbaran hour ago
          I would guess Israel as many do not have deeper insights into the general situation there.

          Palestinians in Israel in general have full citizenship and rights and as far as I am aware lives relatively well integrated. My experience is from before the mass murdering on 7th October and the following cruel war so things might have changed though.

  • andrepd4 hours ago
    The West at large continuing to be complicit in Israel's aggression and genocide is a source of great shame to me. Unlike many other atrocities of the past 75 years, this could not have been done without our help.