so I recently heard that 80% of Lebanese support disarming hezbollah. Ignoring the persian zionists, even the Iranians who view Israel as genocidal are still against Iran directly going to war with Israel, or 'waste' much needed resources on funding foreigners.
so if everyone is against it, who are we really helping here? Is it right to force people to pay the cost (live in poverty, get displaced or actually die) for a cause they didn't choose? even if it's a 'just' cause?
as a anti-imperialist Iranian, I've seen some debate around this topic, and I was wondering how others would address this.
I know the gallup poll you're talking about and I think you should revisit it. It's methodologically flawed
The poll just straight up excludes a good chunk of the population and that population also happens to be the population that would oppose disarming Hezbollah.
There's also timing of the poll and aggregation of political identity to this degree doesn't produce highly reliable data. A ton of flaws in this but even all of those flaws aside the argument that the Lebanese army is capable of deterring Israel is genuinely laughable and the Lebanese army will be the first to admit that.
And I think the big gap here is not realizing that the people of Iran and Lebanon have this reality imposed onto them by Israel. Not Hezbollah or any other resistance.
Israel is a violent, US backed, power that has shown us time and time again that it's willing to invade, bomb, occupy, assassinate, disregard sovereignty, human rights and international law.
As long as it exists the resistance to that also has to exist. Especially when a state military like Lebanon's has shown that it can't provide deterrence or that it can't protect its people in South Lebanon. Hezbollah is the ONLY credible deterrent against Israel. Like it or not that's just the reality of things.
I think you're right that it's not fair that innocent people are paying the cost of a war they don't want. The problem with your argument is that you're blaming Iran or Hezbollah but the blame of that sits squarely on Israel. You can't expect people to sit and wait for them to get occupied/killed by Israel.
Again anything downstream of this reality is pointless. And to answer your question, "who are we helping"
People that don't want Zios to occupy them or murder their children.
And Israel deserves every single rocket that gets launched at them because they're an illegitimate colonial entity. That's also a reality you don't get to argue.
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