Hezbollah Fires Rockets at Israel in Response to Assassination in Beirut

JimmyBigSausage, 4 months ago

They fired missiles, not rockets.

girlfreddy, 4 months ago

Both go BOOM and kill people so I’m not sure what the distinction is for.

JimmyBigSausage, 4 months ago

“Rockets” is said to make them seem like backyard desert thugs vs organized militia. Media always refers to “rockets from Gaza”. Never missiles. Israel has “missiles”. Just something I’ve always noticed although I am not in favor of either party in this war over the other. So does that make me an antisemite? In some circles, yes. In others, no. I am not for the great displacement occuring nor am I for missiles or rockets into Israel from Gaza’s Hamas. I am struggling with the comtradictions toward peace. I am believing noone. Just reading the words of propaganda. It is exhausting.

girlfreddy, 4 months ago

Fair enough.

blahsay, 4 months ago

Rockets = upper atmosphere

Missiles = lower

Iran regularly fires/provides rockets which go waaay up before coming down. Not sure if that was the case here though.

blahsay, 4 months ago

And yeah…more tech in rockets than missiles usually so I suspect you’re seeing bias that isn’t there (in the report anyway)

Land_Strider, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

The comparison between the two in war industry is usually to label guided, and connotatively precision, munitions as missiles and unguided, and connotatively dumb or saturation fire, as rockets although in reality there is no strict distinction in these terms. Bias stems from this particular use of connotative terms.

Also note: Isreali strike in Lebanon wasn’t exactly an “assassination” that would immediately connotate with spy movie type assassinations with silenced weapons, poison, long-range sharpshooter rifles or other discreet means of killing a single individual. It was a precision explosive munition fire from afar (artillery/long range missile launch systems/aircraft, I don’t exactly remember which) that leveled a whole apartment-type of building.

FlyingSquid, 4 months ago

Countries involved in the war so far:

Israel

Palestine (if you count it)

Yemen

Lebanon

What’s next?

blahsay, 4 months ago

You forgot Iran and Qatar.

KISSmyOS, 4 months ago

Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, US, EU and China are already involved as well.

FlyingSquid, 4 months ago

But as secondary players. I’m talking about the direct actors.

breakfastmtn, 4 months ago

I don’t think it’s spilling over into a broader war yet.

Lebanon isn’t really that involved. Hezbollah and Israel fire rockets at each other all the time. It’s obviously more activity than usual but I don’t think they have any appetite for war. This attack is likely more about saving face. Weirdly, it’s probably a good sign that this was their response.

The Houthis have been launching attacks but not the Yemeni government. Until relatively recently the (Shia) Houthis were attacking the (Sunni) government of Yemen. Neither side is friendly with Israel, but they’re definitely not on the same page - the Houthis are aligned with Hamas but the government isn’t.

PhlubbaDubba, 4 months ago

Yeah people don’t realize that Hezbollah’s playing a VERY dangerous balancing act here, because Lebanese folks largely don’t give a shit about crusading against Israel, so Hezbollah dragging them all into war could prompt a rebellion against Hezbollah, and if the beehive is shaken up enough, any Lebanese government that doesn’t explicitly ban and persecute any future Hezbollah activities.