Go back and read up on what was happening in the 1980s in Lebanon. After the 1948 Nakba, thousands of Palestinians were shoved into Lebanon. Some in Lebanon supported them and out of this grew terrorist groups. There had already been Jewish and Palestinian terrorist groups in the 20 or so odd years since the Mandate in 1920 - this is worth reading up on too. Hezbollah came out of this. The areas of Lebanon affected were a war zone for years, children shot at, families broken apart, normal people living in utter hell for years. It is written up as a ME issue but in fact the arms and the bombing were coming from many countrie and the bombing from the sea allegedly from the US. What has changed? Absolutely nothing. It is an absolute disgrace. It is decades of deals being done behind the scenes, secret geopolitics, no one even in power being entirely clear what is going on or having any control over the situation.
Hezbollah grew out of those conflicts. I was reading how the leader of Hamas in 2023 had spent more of his life including childhood in an Israeli prison than out of it. And the point is, it is in this context that Hezbollah and Hamas exist, and 2023 happened. Saying this is not supporting them. It is pointing out that 1948 had consequences. The fighting before that had consequences. Beirut in the 1980s had consequnces. The many, many, many bombings and assassinations over the years by all parties have consequences.
What is going on now in Lebanon and Iran and the ME wider will have consequences.
You are being ridiculously narrow minded to think that just one single event should righteously have consequences and only non-Israeli groups deserve censure.
The only thing all of us should be saying is - how can this situation have been left for so long? And now for the first time ever you have all countries including Iran, Lebanon, middle east, Europe, Asia, the whole f-ing world, even Hamas, backing or accepting peace via a 2 state solution and what do Israel and the US do? They start another war. A really awful war. A really "big fat" war as Trump would say.
Why would they do that? How can you possibly think there is moral high ground there?
The only reason why certain groups are proscribed and some are not is a tool by governments to stop support for them within their populations. It is irrelevant as to what should happen in terms of world politics. Didn't Clinton and Blair negotiate with NI proscribed terrorists? Yes. Yes they did.
So stop messing around with people's lives and petty allegiances and start supporting peace.
The only way we are going to get peace now is for enough world leaders to stand united to stop what is going on in Lebanon and Iran, and to get a 2 state solution and peace terms agreed, and to allow Palestinians decide what happens in the new Palestine including Gaza.
And to stop Israel being allowed to hang Palestinians.