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I know this sounds kind of childish but... why can't we all just chill out? For like A SECOND?
It's been a long time since the six-day-war. Most states in the middle east are more technologically capable than they were in 67. I'm thinking it's time for that coalition to form up again and gang bang Bibi and his buddies. We'd see some different results.
All the suffering and death that Israel has caused for decades, is purely the result of its insulation from consequences. If Israel had to face any real resistance to its behavior, it would be forced to negotiate in good faith like a normal country.
If killing civilians and starting a war makes you euphoric, you're not a good human being.
or at the very least you feel way too safe
Everyone deserves to feel safe. Except for Nazis, slavers, and the like.
Yes everyone (except the above) deserves to feel safe. But there can be a feeling of too safe, a jobu tupaki feeling, the feeling you are invulnerable and unstoppable and that you can kill indiscriminately at a whim. That's feeling too safe.
All according to plan.
The Israeli government needs Israel to be a perpetual victim to justify perpetual war.
When no enemy is attacking they need to force an attack, lest their citizenship stop living in constant fear long enough for them to question the need for perpetual war.
Israelis sowing: hehehe, this is fun
Israelis reaping: okay what the fuck?
Now Israel knows what it’s like to be a Gazan
Not even close
Not yet
What happened to the iron dome?
ELI5: There are rockets that can't be blocked by the dome. There is another system for these rockets but they can be overwhelmed easier than the dome. (They still block, but not as efficient as the dome so way more rockets hit.)
it only works against rocks and fireworks not a properly armed nation
It got overwhelmed due to the large quantity of projectiles afaik
"The Israeli public has been convinced over the years that it can exist here in the region while deeply disdaining all its neighbours and rampaging in a thuggish and murderous manner against everyone - whenever and however it wants - relying solely on brute force. "That's why there was something so substantial about the sight of the bombed-out buildings in Ramat Gan," he said. "They are so similar to the images we're used to seeing from Gaza. Those sooty grey skeletons of buildings, that billowing cloud of dust, that carpet of ash and rubble covering the street, those images of children's dolls in the hands of rescue teams. "The scale is, of course, completely different, but these images are nevertheless a momentary rupture of this disturbed fantasy that we are immune to everything," he added.
United States citizens should take note. We never seem to appreciate the consequences of our actions, at home or abroad, until they return to us. The people in the global South, the East, Middle -East--people around the world-- are humans like us, with struggles, sorrows, dreams and aspirations. We need to shake the boot off our necks, then lift it off our neighbors ' necks.
United States citizens should take note. We never seem to appreciate the consequences of our actions, at home or abroad, until they return to us.
You don't after they return to you either, with WTC being an example. If anything you doubled down.
I noticed, and was deeply ashamed. That was a one-off, though. I can't say it would be different if it were more it would be different, but it may be.
a 67-year-old Israeli living in central Israel, told MEE that after initially supporting the strikes against Iran, reality quickly hit home that Israel was vulnerable and that Israelis, just like Iranians, could also be targeted.
"The attack surprised me," Yafa-Niger said.
How can she slap?
This reads so much like an Onion. Just needs some leopards.
And then the guy's first name is Orly. What am I, a chronically online millennial, supposed to do with that?
Ya rly?
Srsly.
No Wai!
Not quite the same as massacring starving people who can't fight back, is it?
I mean, fuck the mullahs, but how often has Iran invaded any other country in the past century? I believe that number is zero. Compare that to Israel's assaults on its neighbors and the massive civilian casualties that those assaults caused.
And who was the idiot who abrogated the US nuclear non-proliferation treaty with Iran? Oh yeah, it was Trump in his first term.
They participated in the Iran-Iraq war, but that was started by Sadaam IIRC.
Wasn't Sadaam doing USA bidding during Iran Irak war?
Honestly I'm not sure. I don't know that part of history very well at all, and wouldn't want to venture a guess.
Yeah, that was started when Iraq invaded them.
Yeah that's what I thought, I just couldn't remember.
Lady friend was looking through her social media and one of her tik toks just showed U.S. troops getting Steak and Lobster. They were questioning if it was really for the stupid birthday or the alternative is they usually do steak and lobster when our troops are about to get shafted (usually a deployment meal for the Marines/Navy)
Iran has participated in a number of regional conflicts, including sending their own forces to support another country, but can't find any instances of Iran invading another country. As far as I know, that's just not something they do.
Iran follows the US doctrine as much as they can. They do everything they can through proxies, trying to avoid direct conflict.
Xerxes
FAFO
If they hadn't destroyed some portion of Iran's ballistic missiles, it could have been much worse and really deter future FA. Now I'm not sure if the FO would be enough to do that. When I say enough, I mean destroy enough of Israel's air force infrastructure so that their bombing capabilities are severely diminished. Not flattening residential buildings.
I think you wildly overestimate Iran's ability to target. These missiles aren't "kill nuclear scientists in their apartment" they're "aim at a city and hope it lands"
Iran has ballistic missiles, which is an achievement, but aiming a rocket going at that speed with any accuracy is a monumental (read: expensive) engineering challenge.
I'll be honest, Iran doesn't seem to target military assets all that much. Or at least, the air defence is much better around those areas. Which isn't crazy.
Will no one think of the genociders?
Start shit, get hit.