The thing that made me switch sides
I mean at the beginning of when I first learned of the conflict it's not like I was completely against Israel either I just hated the fact that so many civilians were being targeted and killed, and it seemed to me that israel was indiscriminately bombing everyone instead of only targeting Hamas but ever since the war started here in Lebanon it's obvious that the attacks ARE targeted, who's safe and who isn't.
It feels so weird watching diaspora or westerners who are completely pro Hamas and Hezbollah say false stuff about how everyone in Lebanon is in danger of being wiped out, they even began gloating when israel bombed a few christian areas but everyone actually living here can tell them that actually, israel didnt blow up "everyone's" phones, but the pagers of hezb members that theyve been watching for 15 years, and that the very few christian areas that got bombed didn't target the Christians but the shia refugees that were Hezbollah members.
A Hezbollah airstrike in zahle killed a few christian acquaintances, but it was a mixed area of Shias and Christians and they happened to live very close to the hezb members. The Shias seemed very happy to also mock the christians in the northern town of zgharta on social media because they were bombed recently, but everyone in the community knows that the house that was bombed was rented to a shia family from the south that were most likely part of hezbollah. Hell, in my own area, this morning I was woken up by an explosion so loud I thought my city was getting bombed by Israel too, turns out one singular car on the highway that belonged to a hezbollah member too was tge target.
So what I'm trying to say is that the westerners and others who don't live here will never actually understand who the real target is. They don't seem to be able to put 2 and 2 together and figure out that the Shias want to find refuge in the Christian and Druze areas so badly because they know they are actually safe no matter what they like to claim about Israel "wanting all of Lebanon and hating all christians and Druze too". They refuse to believe Hezbollah is actually hated by a part of lebanon and that hezbollah is the target of Israel, I've seen them ridicule a lebanese christian online for posting that trend that goes "i love my Israeli side" "but youre Lebanese" and then showing a picture of jesus. They said he has Stockholm syndrome and jesus was a Palestinian and they called him names I'm not gonna repeat here. So now no matter what a westerner or diaspora tries to comment about the war I'm gonna stop listening until they get their ass over here and experience what's actually happening