It’s so incredibly heavy-handed with its plot devices to the point that it feels like its genuinely doing it for “engagement” like you said. I enjoyed the acting by the host couple and could definitely see a good movie in there if it wasn’t for the 2 protagonists’ grating personalities and the combination of tropey and non-sensical descision making.

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Incredible how Israel poofs into existence in your framing. I hope you one day see the humanity of others. Goodbye.

Israel should stop occupying territory in violation of dozens of international resolutions and blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state. Belligerent occupiers are in no position to be “provoked” by those who they are occupying. How many wars do the Palestinians get to wage because of the nakba (or countless other massacres) and subsequent colonization of remaining territory?

Into Lebanese (some consider it Syrian, doesn’t change the dynamic) occupied territory before and after Oct 7th. Gradual escalation (with 80% of those attacks coming from Israeli side) expanded the scale of the northern/southern front to what we see today. Israel has killed 2 orders of magnitude more civilians than Hezballah has and has sought escalation at every stage.

Before Oct 7th, they would exchange fire in occupied Lebanese land and tensions would rise then fizzle out about once a month.

Different statements were made in the past month:

Iran’s General Staff of the Armed Forces said in a statement carried by state media that any Israeli response would be met with “vast destruction” of Israeli infrastructure.

I believe the Iranian ambassador said something of the same vein at the UN security council meeting as well. Either way I still agree that they likely wont respond to this type of limited strike as things currently stand.

I don’t think they said they would not retaliate against a limited attack though that might end up being the case depending on the nature and scale of the damages.

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