On Sunday, one of the weirdest images of recent times, and there are a lot of weird images, appeared on the internet.

We put it up on the screen.

It appeared to show an Israeli soldier an IDF soldier using a sledgehammer to smash the face of a statue of Jesus.

Now, when people first saw this,

we don't have a poll on it or anything,

but we can imagine very few thought it was real.

For one thing,

social media is famously full of manufactured images,

created for who knows what purpose,

mostly political, using AI.

They're not real.

And this one seemed especially fake because it was supposedly shot in Lebanon.

And there's a war going on in Lebanon, and this is an Israeli soldier.

Now, we know a couple of things.

One, what's happening in Lebanon is critical to the security of the state of Israel.

And we know that because Israel is also partnered with the United States in a war against Iran,

which is critical to its national security.

Of course, taking out the famed Iranian

nuclear program is essential for the existence of the state of Israel. That's why the United States

joined in this war. But in the middle of that, Israel had to take time out to invade southern Lebanon,

and not just invade, but according to its own defense

minister, take over, settle, expel the people, and create a permanent security zone in southern

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