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How Four Posts on Instagram Destroyed Her Life
nytimes.com
Sven Etienne - writes for palladium and the national interest.
We live in a condition of ‘new forms of war’. There is a constant creation of war. Our attempts to create solutions is hampered by the constant drone of media and its committed voice. Our energy dissipates. Our sifting of truth from considerable lies is burdensome as we seek to create meaning.
Instead, the IDF sought to weaken Hezbollah, attacking both Hezbollah military targets as well as Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport. But Hezbollah fought back for several intense weeks during what became known as the Second Lebanon War and held a seemingly much more powerful IDF at bay. It was a
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But if this Trojan Horse operation was as precise as it appears to have been, then it ranks among the most ethical acts of self-defense in memory. There are no “innocent” members of Hezbollah—whose only contributions to human culture have been the ruination of Lebanon and the modern evil of suicide bombing. This Iranian proxy has been firing rocket
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