Yawn....... Israel attacked by Hamas

Discussion in 'Politics' started by themickey, Oct 7, 2023.

  1. themickey

    themickey

    America, gaining enemies by the day, N Korea, Russia, China, Iran, all grouping.
    Do you think Israel will rush to your aid?
    Dream on!
    All Israel knows is they are forever the victim and American suckers must save them.
     
    #3651     Oct 11, 2024
  2. themickey

    themickey

    Israel will do its best to suck America into a war with Iran.
    Just watch it happen!
    America must step in "because that's what jesus wants".
     
    #3652     Oct 11, 2024
  3. themickey

    themickey

    Biden made a good job ensuring the Kamala would take over, ensuring a continuation of christian leadership.
    Then you got Trump the fraud (with phony bible printed in China) with evangelical backing.
     
    #3653     Oct 11, 2024
  4. themickey

    themickey

    As Israel prepares to strike Iran, an ever deadlier Middle East war is coming

    The vulnerability of Iran and its allies may be deceptive
    October 11, 2024
    https://inews.co.uk/opinion/israel-...er-middle-east-war-coming-3320033?ITO=newsnow

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    Caption: FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a discussion at the Israeli Parliament Knesset in Jerusalem July 17, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo Photographer: Ronen Zvulun Provider: REUTERS Source: REUTERS

    As the Israeli security cabinet authorises air strikes on Iran, Israel’s war aims are broadening and include the risk of a regional war against Iran in order to radically reshape the political landscape of the Middle East in Israel’s favour.

    This ambitious, even fantastical, goal is fraught with danger for the region and the world. Israel cannot achieve it without the full and undisguised backing of the US. Despite President Joe Biden’s claim that he has fruitlessly urged a ceasefire on Benjamin Netanyahu, he has subsequently always endorsed every Israeli escalation. It is reasonable for Israel to conclude that it can attack Iran with impunity, since, if anything goes wrong, it will have the backing of the US armed forces.

    Historians may one day reach a conclusion about how far the Israeli tail is wagging the American dog, taking advantage of Biden’s feebleness to lure the US into another reckless military adventure in the Middle East.

    It is too easy to blame America’s feckless and ineffectual diplomacy on Biden’s cognitive decline over the past three years. But, if it is not Biden, it is unclear who are the real decision-makers in the White House and the upper reaches of the administration.

    Judging the White House by its actions rather than its words, it sees a geopolitical advantage in defeating Iran – an ally of Russia and China, albeit a distant one – and its allies.

    Wishful thinking probably plays a role. Israel has been far more successful in killing Hezbollah leaders and mid-level commanders than had been expected, so might not an aggressive attack on Iran and its “Axis of Resistance” produce similar victories?

    It is an alluring prospect, although US military interventions – from Somalia in 1992/93 to Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 – failed in large measure because of hubris and underestimating the enemy.

    Uniquely dangerous
    Israel’s track record is somewhat similar when it comes to arrogantly overplaying its hand in the West Bank after defeating Egypt and Syria in 1967, and invading Lebanon in 1982. Yet decades later the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are still fighting in both places.

    These historic analogies are often cited by Western commentators as ominous warnings about what can go dreadfully wrong for the US and Israel when they rely solely on force. Yet, the comparisons are a little misleading as the political landscape, both in Israeli domestic politics and the region as a whole, has been transformed in the past 20 years. It is these changes that make the present crisis far more dangerous than its predecessors.

    The Israeli government formed by Netanyahu after winning the general election in November 2021 was immediately recognised as being the most fanatically right-wing and ultra-nationalist in Israel’s history.

    To give but one example, Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the Jewish Power party, became the national security minister – a newly created post placing him in charge of the national police force. A religious settler from Kiryat Arba, close to the West Bank city of Hebron, he had been convicted in the past on charges of inciting racism and supporting terror. He threatened Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on live television, and had hanging in his home a photograph of Baruch Goldstein, who murdered 29 Palestinians as they prayed in the mosque in Hebron in 1994.

    Given the ideological make-up of the Israeli cabinet, it is scarcely surprising that Israel’s objectives in Gaza and the West Bank seem now to have expanded to include ending all normal life for the five million Palestinians who live there. An air strike on a school in central Gaza on Thursday killed 28 people, many of whom Unicef says were women and children lining up for malnutrition treatment.

    The IDF justified the strike by claiming that the school housed a Hamas command post. Even supposing this to be true, in its bid to justify itself, the IDF is making a confession that Hamas is present everywhere in Gaza a year after the Israeli invasion.

    Israel contends that the figure of 42,000 dead in Gaza is exaggerated by the Palestinian health ministry, but precisely the same pattern of air strikes conducted regardless of civilian casualties is taking place in Lebanon. A strike on Beirut, on the same day as the one in Gaza, killed 22 people including three children from a family of eight, who had fled from south Lebanon.

    The new elite
    What makes the present crisis doubly dangerous is that it is not just that Israel has an ethno-nationalist political leadership. A parallel development has taken place among the elite leadership of the Israeli state – civil service, police, judiciary and, increasingly, the IDF – who are drawn from the fundamentalist and messianic wing of Israeli society.

    This new elite is less sophisticated than its predecessors (though these, too, were often hardline), more prone to seeing Israel’s enemies as both demonic and threatening, yet vulnerable when confronted with the unrelenting use of force.

    The course of the war so far in Lebanon would tend to confirm this and there are other powerful arguments on their side. The US is giving Israel carte blanche in an unprecedented way and is unlikely to resist an aggressive Israeli strategy towards Iran.

    Looming threats
    Arab nation states once hostile to Israel, including Syria, Iraq, Libya and Sudan, have all gravely weakened by civil wars in the past 20 years. Arab leaders are mute or ineffective about Gaza and Lebanon. Iran is more isolated than it has been since the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988.

    Yet the vulnerability of Iran and its allies may be a little deceptive. A band of Shia Muslim-dominated states stretching across the north of the Middle East – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon – are not going to disappear.

    Israel and the US might try to stir up religious and ethnic conflicts in countries such as Lebanon, which witnessed a murderous sectarian civil war between 1975 and 1990. Already there are reports of Shia Muslims in flight from Israeli bombing being regarded with hostility when they seek refuge in non-Shia areas.

    As for Iran, it may conclude that it cannot deter Israel, which is prepared to risk a regional war, but that it might do better to broaden the conflict by attacks on the oil trade, US allies or US bases. Its aim would be to force the US to restrain Israel – the claim by Washington that it cannot do this is universally disbelieved in the Middle East.

    It is becoming increasingly difficult to see how a regional war can be prevented – and even more difficult to see how it can be brought to an end.
     
    #3654     Oct 11, 2024
  5. themickey

    themickey

    Netanyahu: "Thank God the heathen Americans believe in a false messiah, our God is gracious that he has fooled their minds to serve our purpose".

    "What is God's and our shared purpose?"
    "Why, but to rid the earth of heathens".

    Btw, mussy's are thinking the same thing.
     
    #3655     Oct 11, 2024
  6. Mercor

    Mercor

    Thank god Trump will be the one to solve this ...It will save many Muslim and Palestinians lives
     
    #3656     Oct 11, 2024
  7. Explain how your daddy’s going to solve this, you glue sniffer?
     
    #3657     Oct 11, 2024
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  8. themickey

    themickey

    Biden has fucked up big time.
    Trump will fuck it even harder.

    Only one way to sort this, America to gtfo, but it will never happen.
    Netanyahu knows this and will play his cards his way.
     
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    #3658     Oct 12, 2024
  9. Most moral people in the world.
    that's the truth, innit?
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    #3659     Oct 12, 2024
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    THE ACTUAL REALITY

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    #3660     Oct 12, 2024