Also some behind-the-scenes footage of Destiny's trip to Israel. He's a scumbag but there is a possibility he almost got his head blown off while peering into Lebanon from a hill on the Israeli side. If you look closely at 7:30 at high resolution you can see light reflect off a scope aimed at his group from the central village.
This is why Israelis are anxious about their northern border. The terrain on the other side is highly defensible, and you can get into firing points and fire into Israel with direct-fire weapons like ATGMs that take seconds to reach their targets. A direct-fire weapon for people who don't know travels in a direct line from the shooter to target, while an indirect fire weapon is like a rocket that can travel 20 kilometers and which you aim using mathematics. At any rate the northern border is such that the Israeli side isn't covered everywhere from direct-fire weapons, there are positions on the Lebanese side that overlook the Israel side.
Israeli troops might have taken that village and destroyed it now, but Israel is taking losses from FPVs, which I don't think they have a solution to. The situation they're facing now is a protracted situation where they just lose a soldier in Lebanon every few days from an FPV. That adds up over months or years.
>>2826650>Fascists don’t usually have super coherent goals other than kill and dominate the out-group, right?Well they can be aware of their limitations. Someone got flack for saying they want to survive, but they can believe that the only way to survive is to embrace a sadistic belief in power and the spectacle of violence, and what matters is the will to inflict overwhelming violence to cow people they won't wanna mess with them. But that makes people wanna mess with them. It's like they feel that any sign of weakness is a vulnerability, which is why Oct. 7 was so traumatic and frightening, because it made them look weak, hence the extreme and disproportionate reaction.
Images of Palestinian suffering hurts them but they seem to like images of destruction, especially buildings. For whatever reason they are fascinated by images of buildings blowing up. The IDF has events where they watch montage footage of villages being detonated with explosives. It's a theme in jingoistic music videos as well.