Talk:2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks

Latest comment: 17 days ago by TonySt in topic Edit request 11 August 2025

"Jewish-American political scientist..." Jewishness not relevant in this context.

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I don’t believe Eliot Cohen’s Jewish background is relevant in the context of the paragraph where he is mentioned. His ethnicity has no clear bearing on the assessment he made about the impact of the attack, which falls within his area of expertise. Stating that he is Jewish comes across as an attempt to flag a potential bias, which plays into the stereotype of Jews (regardless of their nationality) having "dual loyalty" with Israel, which is widely recognized as an antisemitic trope. I doubt that was the intention, especially since the page is protected, but I wanted to raise the concern. However, if the intent really was to suggest that Cohen may have a strong pro-Israel stance and that this could influence his judgment, and if that is something supported by his record (which I don't know), I think it is more appropriate to instead refer to his record, or his political conservatism. FelixDeClercq (talk) 17:29, 11 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

I agree. I've removed it. If his article had included a sentence like 'as a Jewish-American...', maybe it would be relevant, at least from his perspective, but there is currently no source-based reason to include it. Sean.hoyland (talk) 17:55, 11 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Edit request - change infobox

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Replace the Infobox civilian attack with some infobox relevant to military operations, because that's what this was. Jerdle (talk) 12:35, 12 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done. Alaexis¿question? 19:04, 12 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Proportionality

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The Proportionality section is so unbalanced that it essentially absolves the terrorist attacker from any ethical consideration of carrying out such a brutal and indiscriminate attack. 2001:4C4E:24AF:5A00:E14:20B:9267:4231 (talk) 06:59, 9 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Added a couple more opinions. Alaexis¿question? 11:19, 9 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
You distorted the entire section to lean even more heavily in the "it was justified" POV, the opposite of what the person you are responding to was complaining about. There is also no reason for you to so extensively cite the POV already disproportionately presented on the page by detailing their arguments at such length. I have added more POVs that say it was not proportionate and fixed the paragraphs so each POV is in the same parts. Lf8u2 (talk) 20:46, 9 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Edit request 11 August 2025

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Description of suggested change: Remove "Land" from West Point international law institute name. Causes a dead link. Diff:

An analysis published by the Lieber Institute for Law & Land Warfare at West Point concluded that while not all relevant facts are yet known, if Israeli officials were of the "genuine and good faith professional opinion" that most of the people impacted by the attack were lawful targets, the operation may have been legal.
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An analysis published by the Lieber Institute for Law & Warfare at West Point concluded that while not all relevant facts are yet known, if Israeli officials were of the "genuine and good faith professional opinion" that most of the people impacted by the attack were lawful targets, the operation may have been legal.

198.2.5.112 (talk) 21:19, 11 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done tony 21:26, 11 August 2025 (UTC)Reply