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by ShinyLeftPad 38 days ago
This is a fallacious argument. As if it was controversial to say that an organization engaging in lawless violence and terror attacks (imagine if those attacks were against you) doesn't have any moral ground to stand on, even if it does some other things besides that.

It's basically the mafia approach. They are known to help people and stuff sometimes, does it mean we should condone them and protest when they are targeted?

The key people in mafia are also always in "administrative" roles. If you only target the guy pulling the trigger, you would be a fool since he is pretty low among the pawns.

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Nothing Hezbollah has done is even remotely close to the evils of Israel. Hezbollah is armed resistance against a genocidal terror force. They're not even remotely "bad".
I looked it up and according to Hezbollah the evil of Israel is in its existence. The stated objective is destruction of Israel and having another one of the many Islamic countries in its place, and it does not appear contingent on what Israel does. If you are in favor of that, I guess you're entitled to your opinion, but I don't share it.