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Friday, April 24, 2026

Motorcycles, TVs and Couches: Israeli Soldiers Testify to Widespread Looting in Lebanon: 'Commanders Know and Do Nothing.' The looting has expanded in part because some IDF military police (MP) checkpoints at exit points from southern Lebanon were removed, while others were never set up. IDF soldiers say that 'when there is no punishment, the message is clear.'

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"According to testimony, as IDF soldiers leave Lebanon, they load stolen items onto their vehicles openly, without attempting to conceal them. "It's on a crazy scale," one soldier said. "Anyone who takes something " televisions, cigarettes, tools, whatever " immediately puts it in their vehicle or leaves it off to the side, not inside the army base, but it's not hidden. Everyone sees it and understands."

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Just like Russian soldiers looting Ukraine, so too are Israeli soldiers looting Lebanon.

Since 1948 under both Democratic and Republican Party administrations, the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer has sent the Labor and Likud governments of Israel, a prosperous and nuclear-armed country, over $317.9bn, the most US economic aid given to any nation in the world. This Pariah nation/Rogue state has been globally condemned for its inhuman ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, except by the US.

Meanwhile, Israel provides world class universal healthcare for all its residents while the US averages over 630,000 medical bankruptcies a year and the "Big Beautiful Bill" will deplete funds for Americans relying on Medicaid and Medicare to survive.

American taxpayers are getting a lousy return on their investment. US midterm elections are scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-24 01:20 AM | Reply

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-24 01:23 AM | Reply

At this point, I am thinking that PM Netanyahu is intentionally trying to prolong his destructive war erely for the purpose of trying to avoid prosecution for the crimes of which he has been accused.

In that scenario, he is causing the people of neighboring countries to suffer. Greatly suffer.

War crimes? For me, it is starting to look that way.

PM Netanyahu has crossed the line, imo.



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-24 01:23 AM | Reply

"Stuff like this is why neither side is in the right in that conflict."

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-24 01:24 AM | Reply


Republican and Democratic Senators proudly pose with ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, something NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), Ukraine President Volodomir Zelensky, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, or Canada PM Mark Carney would never do.

ICC Indictment

ICJ Rules Israel is Apartheid State

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-24 01:45 AM | Reply

Israel's UN ambassador says IDF is 'most moral military in the world'
www.pbs.org

Those who embrace ethnonationalism align themselves with some of history's darkest forces.
Israel was founded with hopes a hefty chunk of its people - much like our own MAGAts - abandoned in favor of ignoramic hate.
Justified, of course, by lunatic religious zealotry.
Mirroring that which is supposedly the enemy.
Go figure.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-04-24 05:31 AM | Reply

IDF is a terrorist organization.

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-04-24 08:37 AM | Reply

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