Dozens of Jewish protesters and their allies were arrested on Wednesday morning after they blocked rush hour traffic on a busy Los Angeles highway to demand a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza.

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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

After the bombings? That would have been done by primarily US troops, so of course he could stop it with a phone call.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

After the what? We're talking about Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 here.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought you might be referring to the 1983 attacks.

I was a little underdeveloped at that age to be aware of everything going on.

Doesn't look like he stopped anything though, given that fighting continued despite the ceasefire for a few more years, and that Israel still attacks Lebanon on a regular basis because of Hezbollah.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

He didn't stop the conflict as a whole, but he stopped the bombing of west Beirut itself.

That bombing was followed by a protest to the Israeli government by President Ronald Reagan. Within 20 minutes of a phone call between Reagan and Begin, in which the former said the bombings were going too far and needed to stop, Begin ordered the bombings stopped.