One side is always the aggressor, even when playing defence
Israeli actions always lead to fears of a wider conflict, while Hezbollah and Hamas actions are things that just kind of happen.
Heidi Matthews when Israeli civilians are slaughtered en masse:
Heidi Matthews when Hezbollah members are targeted with near pinpoint accuracy:
Alas, Professor Matthews of Osgoode Hall law school in Toronto (not a day goes by that I don’t give thanks for them rejecting my application all those years ago) is not an “American idiot” but a native of my home province.
I don’t normally condone “Newfie jokes,” of which I have have been the butt of many during my five decades on this earth, but for Matthews? Tell all the Newfie jokes you want.
“How many Heidi Matthewses does it take to change a light bulb? A thousand. One to hold the bulb and 999 to turn the house.”
Meanwhile, here’s how Reuters covered the recent, extremely ballsy Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah’s pagers and walkie-talkies:
And here was the Reuters headline when a Hezbollah rocket, fired from Lebanon, targeted a top secret IDF training facility (a soccer field) and took out twelve Israeli Druze commandos in training (children, whom I presume Prof. Matthews would deem legitimate targets because they would have been conscripted into the Israeli armed forces someday):
In other words: Hezbollah firing wildly at Israeli civilian areas is just one of these things that just kind of happens, you know, like hurricanes or tornados or crazy people trying to shoot Donald Trump.
But Israel carrying out an operation which specifically targets the people firing these rockets? Well, now they’ve done gone and done it. Now we’re afraid there might be a “wider conflict” as opposed to the heretofore peaceful situation when only Je-er, Israelis are fired upon.
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