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Let’s maybe not pretend like Lebanon isn’t a deeply antisemitic country? The relationship between Israel and Lebanon is complex, and this “Israel is evil, Lebanon is innocent” narrative is BLATANTLY ahistorical and, frankly, patronizing to the leaders of Lebanon who can make decisions to be just as big assholes as the leaders of every other country.
Gadot killed zero people. Let’s keep this straight.
Are Iraq and Afghanistan banning Star Wars because Adam Driver was in the Marines during the war, even though he never saw combat?
Also, if you want to bring up the war between Israel and Lebanon during Gadot’s term in the IDF…it was the July War. It started because Hezbollah (internationally recognized terrorist organization, note) fired rockets into Israel.
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure that if a neighboring country that has invaded yours several times (even if they lost) fires rockets that hit civilian and military targets, you take that as a declaration of war. On top of that, Hezbollah kidnapped several Israeli soldiers (and remember, soldiers are drafted, so the term is just “Israeli citizen of a given age” in this context) Oh, and the Lebanese government had refused to disarm Hezbollah and during these incidents praised the organization…
The war wasn’t black and white, and if every country banned all movies involving a person from a country that they have been at war at (even just recently!) then this would be a very, very different world. But that’s not normal, and is mostly being praised and done because of antisemitism.
For some reason this is the only thing that comes to mind when I read about people all butthurt when we call them out for supporting the Wonder Woman ban under a false guise of caring about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to mask their blatant anti-semitism.
Like, thank goodness someone summed this up succinctly so I didn’t have to attempt to.
