Israel launched a deadly strike on the Lebanese city of Tyre this week after issuing evacuation warnings in the middle of the night. The attack followed a pattern of mass civilian killings, where residents are given last-minute warnings, with no time to flee to safety.
Israel’s familiar messaging included: “Your presence near Hezbollah elements, their facilities, or their combat, means puts your lives at risk. Any building used by Hezbollah for military purposes may be subject to targeting.”
Was Hezbollah operating out of refugee camps? Because entire residential buildings inside a Palestinian refugee camp were reduced to rubble, burying families, women, and children beneath their homes.
As it stands, Israel has also issued a forced displacement order for all of southern Lebanon, which will most likely lead to yet another massacre the world will be expected to justify and forget.
This isn’t just about Israel’s actions, though; the bombs, military aid, and diplomatic protection trace back to Washington.
This makes you think about how we’re constantly told that Iran and its allies are the greatest terrorist threat to civilians in the Middle East. But if you look at the historical records, you see something very different… the United States’ hand in some of the region’s deadliest and largest civilian massacres.
So before anyone lectures the world about “terrorism,” let’s take a look at a few more incidents that the U.S. had its fingerprints on:
In 1988, the U.S. Navy shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 civilians onboard, including 66 children. They stated that it was a mistake, but the aircraft was flying in a normal commercial corridor with its civilian transponder active when missiles tore it apart in mid-air. The United States never formally apologized for killing these everyday citizens.
Then came the Amiriyah shelter bombing in Iraq in 1991, when U.S. forces dropped precision-guided bombs on a civilian shelter packed with families hiding from air raids. Hundreds were burned alive inside the structure, with many bodies melted into the walls from the blasts. Yes, this is something the U.S. and American taxpayer dollars funded.
In 1996, Israeli artillery shelled a compound in Qana, Lebanon, where around 800 innocent civilians took shelter, killing more than 100 men, women, and children. The IDF issued evacuation warnings by radio, which is why civilians fled to the shelter, which was then obliterated. At this time, the U.S. pledged $100 million to Israel, for what it said was for fighting terrorism.
Now, 30 years later, Qana is still being bombed by Israel, with U.S. funding and political backing still helping make it possible.
There are more horrific examples of past U.S.-backed terror attacks, but fast forward to 2026, from the Feb 28th bombing of the girls’ school to families being buried beneath rubble in Tyre, and it becomes painfully clear that nothing has changed.
The U.S. talks endlessly about terrorism and civilian protection while excusing its own mass civilian bloodshed, all while the media promotes it, and the general public falls for it.
But in reality, who are the real terrorists here?
