JERUSALEM (AP) – The Tel Aviv municipality has lit up City Hall with the Lebanese flag in solidarity with the people of Beirut after Tuesday’s devastating explosion, drawing an outcry from some in Israel.
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Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai wrote on Twitter earlier on Wednesday that “humanity takes precedence over every conflict, and our hearts are with the Lebanese people following the horrible disaster that befell it.”
Israel and Lebanon are officially in a state of war and do not have diplomatic relations. Israel fought a monthlong war in 2006 against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and the sides remain bitter enemies. Current and former lawmakers criticized the decision to project the Lebanese flag.
Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, also lashed out against the decision on Twitter, calling it “simply insane. Lebanon is officially an enemy state. By law, it is a criminal offense to fly an enemy flag.”
No such law exists in the Israeli legal code.
how low can these zionist stoop?!?!?!
Sounds there’s a race who can “out left “the American left
It could be that Israel just wanted to show that it was not involved in the bombing
im sure lebanon would do the same for israel NOT !!
they show support for the Jew haters in Lebonon, but for the people in Gush Katif, for the settlers, for the religious Jews, they can only show hatred! What a disgusting double standard!
Perhaps it
is a gesture that will bring Israel and Lebanon closer to peace.