Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Israeli President Isaac Herzog both issued threats against Iran on Tuesday over the July 30th attack on the tanker Mercer Street, which Tehran denies responsibility for.
“Just as we saw in the maritime attack, which claimed the lives of two foreign nationals, Iran is the greatest threat to global and regional peace,” Gantz said while visiting the Israeli military’s Northern Command. “We call on the international community to take action and stop Iranian aggression. This is the time for joint action.”
During a naval ceremony in the Israeli city of Haifa, Herzog also railed against Iran. “In recent weeks, we have witnessed Iran’s attempt to harm Israeli targets including on the maritime front. This is not just an Israeli matter. The whole world has seen the results of Iran’s aggression against innocent civilians,” he said. “Whoever tries to harm us — anywhere, in theaters near and far, directly or indirectly — will feel our power and might.”
The US has also blamed Iran for the Mercer Street attack and is calling for the world to take action. Speaking to the UN Security Council Monday, Blinken called on other nations to hold Iran “accountable” for the attack, which killed a Romanian and a British citizen.
When denying responsibility for the Mercer Street attack, Iranian officials called out the West for its hypocrisy for never condemning Israel’s aggression against Iran. Israel has a long history of taking action against Iran covertly, including through attacks on Iranian commercial ships, brazen assassinations inside Iran, and dangerous attacks involving explosives on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Both Israeli officials on Tuesday also discussed the recent escalation between Israel and Lebanon. After three rockets were fired into northern Israel last week by an unknown group, Israel responded by pounding southern Lebanon with 92 artillery shells and launching airstrikes.
Hezbollah responded to the Israeli bombardment by firing a barrage of rockets into northern Israel in open areas, likely an effort to avoid casualties. Neither side reported deaths or injuries, but it marked the most significant escalation between the two sides since the 2006 war, and the Israeli officials blamed it partially on Iran.
“Only last weekend, we again saw the activity of Iran and its affiliates on the northern border,” Herzog said. “If anyone in Lebanon thinks they can threaten us — they are making a bitter mistake.”
The World calls for international action and sanctions against Israel.
The world stood by during the European genocide, and when Arafat’s people murdered women and children.The world stands by as China genocides Tibet, and has a million people in concentration camps due to their religion. 4K the world.
How about the massacre at Deir Yassin? The world did nothing then too.
How about the massacres at Hebron and Maalot?
Why can’t you recognize a Palestinian State and get along?
How about the massacre of the Canaanites?
That’s your whole schtick? Such a “victimhood”, pathetic meme.
You must get something from this.
I hope it brings you peace.
Why urge to so feverishly promote lies about Xinjiang?
Demonization of people we do routinely in order to extract what we want and impose our will. We are demonizing Belarus, as we want to impose a pliant regime upon the country. We have been demonizing Iran ever since it freed itself from the clutches of Shah and his secret service. We are demonizing Venezuela and promoting regime change to impose our will. We are continuously demonizing Egypt, as we demand they do as told. Remember Vietnam and the demonization of people as we firebombed them mercilessly?
You may not remember, but they all do.
And in a symbolic gesture of support at the end of this month there will be a military meet in Xinjiang.
Present will be those who know what does it mean to be demonized. China, Russia, Belarus, Iran, Egypt, Venezuela and Vietnam. They can share their experienced with the people of Xinjiang.
Your deficit is that you cannot accept the fact that there is plenty of bad behaviour to go around. Your heroes exist only in your mind. You are cool with political dissidents having their organs ripped from their still living bodies for resale.
You are projecting. You cannot accept the fact that Israel is a nation that occupies somebody else’s territory, and has every intention of keeping it, while implementing a regime of oppression in order to make life unbearable for occupied population.
No amount of your concern for other injustices in this world can change that. Just because there is plenty of bad behavior elsewhere, there is no reason for justifying for-ever occupation and violation of international laws that define the responsibility of occupying forces.
Let us stick to the subject,
Yes, lets stick to the subject. Iran wishes to destroy Israel. It is you who introduced Belarus ect as part of an ideologic tirade. There is no occupation. Jordan seized the west bank, Jordan attacked Israel in 1967, J. The West Bank has been liberated. It is to be hoped that West BankArabs and Israel will work out a mutually beneficial relationship.
Since WHEN has the West Bank been “liberated”?
Are you on crack?
It has been returned to its original owners, the Jewish people.
You might want to brush up on your Jewish history a bit there. Ever heard of the Canaanites?
Yes, and before them,there were Neanderthals. However, the Temple in Jerusalem existed for 1,000 years B.C. The Arabs did not invade until 700 AD.
The Arabs are the descendants of Abraham through his son Ishmael.
Everybody is human;both sides deny that the other has any rights in this matter.
Okay, let’s then return Europe to the Celts, the Huns, the Visigoths, oh I could go on and on…and Amerikkka and Australia to its indigenous people…you ARE on crack, pal, if you think this is gonna happen.
Since when is Israel “home” to European and Amerikkkan Jews? And you think they have more claim to that land than Palestinians who have resided there for hundreds of years?
You think everyone here can’t see through your hasbara?
70% of Israeli Jews are from Palestine.
Most of the Palestinians were ancient Israelites.
70% of Israeli Jews are from Palestine.
70% of Israeli Jews are from Palestine.
The country exists;get used to it.
“Yes, lets stick to the subject. Iran wishes to destroy Israel.”
That wasn’t the subject. That’s just you dodging the actual subject. That’s what you always do when you can’t refute what others say about the parasite’s brutality.
If you could read beyond a second grade level,you should have followed the comment train,where Bianca introduced Vietnam and Belarus,then said stick to the subject. Less talk,less animus,use your brain instead
Learn how to write better.
So .we are inthe presence of the great mind
It doesn’t. And you sure hide the fact that you’re a borderline genius very well.
In your view,anyone who disagrees with you is evil and a puppet-I don’t that very wise.
Not evil or a puppet, just wrong.
You really shouldn’t edit what I replied to. Especially when you change it completely. And you with several degrees more than me should know that.
Pay your taxes and abandon your hatreds.
I pay my taxes. I get 100% back because of my income. Couldn’t your multi degreed mind figure that out? My hatred is limited to those who deserve it. And Apartheid practicing Israel is deserving.
Now you love Muslims in China?
BDS as if someone’s life depends on it: IT DOES!
To my knowledge, Israel has never asked any country for permission to bomb anyone. They simply do it, the international community and UN can go pound sand for all they care.
So, this can only mean the Israeli’s are lying (as usual) about being prepared to attack Iran alone if they deem it necessary.
The biggest lie is that Marxists won,when all they have done spread suffering.
The most powerful country in the world, China, is Marxist. China is busy building the Belt and Road initiative and almost all of Asia, Africa and Europe will be tied to it. The Chinese Marxist are leading the world, so yes they won.
China has never been Marxist and hasn’t even formally pretended to be Marxist since the Deng era.
Yes, “modified” as in “let’s have state capitalism and call it Marxism.”
Some libertarian thinkers would call “state capitalism” an oxymoron. Such as “a command free market economy”.
Others would argue that “state capitalism” is simply another definition for certain types of communism.
The Soviet Union and Red China were founded on Marxist ideology and universally recognized as communist. If they are also defined as “state capitalist” that means “state capitalism” equals communism.
Yes, the Soviet Union and Red China were founded on Marxist ideology.
And both fairly quickly figured out that Marxist ideology didn’t work for them. Instead of a dictatorship of the proletariat proceeding toward communism, the vanguard party fell into substitutism and instead of creating a classless society simply reconstituted the ruling class with themselves as that ruling class.
One common interpretation of that fact is that neither Russia nor China went through the (per Marx) necessary stage of capitalist accumulation prior to their revolutions, and therefore had neither the capital base nor the large industrial proletariat class necessary to carry his theory of history into practice.
Another common interpretation of that fact is that there’s something defective in Marxist theory itself.
But either way, both abandoned Marxism while mostly trying to retain the title.
Personally, as a libertarian who likes to think, I refer to “state capitalism” as a redundancy, not as an oxymoron. Capitalism, as described by Hodgskin and popularized by Marx, is a mixed, state-regulated industrial economy. Later attempts to link it to “free markets” were capitalist revisionist attempts to co-opt it — basically to get the furthest point left on the left-right political spectrum, libertarianism, to leapfrog to the right, over the first major right-deviationist from libertarian class theory (Marx), ending up on his right rather than on his left where it belongs.
But in this particular context I was thinking of “state capitalism” as used by Lenin during the NEP, which was supposed to be a temporary rather than permanent abandonment of Marxism; and of “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” more or less rooted in Luo Rongqu’s note that the CCP needed to “establish their own synthesized theoretical framework to study the problem of modern development” since Marx and Engels hadn’t “formulated any systematic theory on the development of the non-Western world.”
From my understanding, that is the conclusion Mao Zedong reached.
From what I remember, Mao and Lenin had disagreements over the practical application of Marxism. Later, Stalin also disagreed with Mao’s interpretation and implementation of Marxism.
To some, Mao altered Marxism so much for China, it should be called “Maoism”.
If history is any guide, Mao was right.
Whatever it is called, the economic model practiced in China is NOT standard Adam Smith, invisible hand, laissez-faire capitalism so heavily promoted in America as the best possible type of economy.
There’s no such thing as “standard Adam Smith” capitalism. Smith was pre-capitalist theory. And laissez-faire is an opposite of capitalism. Including of Chinese state capitalism.
Considering Adam Smith is generally regarded as the father of modern Capitalism theory and The Wealth of Nations is referenced as the first book of modern economics , I find your response strange.
That would be like stating there is no such thing as Newton’s standard Theory of Gravity because no theories of gravity existed before his time.
And laissez-faire is an NOT opposite of capitalism. It is one type of it.
I thought all this was taught in schools years ago.
Feel free to cite where capitalism is referenced in The Wealth of Nations. It isn’t, because the term wasn’t coined until decades later. Smith was a forerunner of “capitalism theory” — just as he was a forerunner of Marx (for example, he propounded labor theory of value).
The primary father of capitalism theory was Karl Marx, although he didn’t coin the term and wasn’t the first to describe it (Hodgskin was definitely there first). Capitalism is a stage of economic organizing and capital accumulation — a mixed, state-regulated, industrial economy — in Marx’s theory of history coming after feudalism and mercantilism and before the revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat.
It was something of a coup for actual capitalists (the right) to get supporters of free markets (the far left) to imagine an affinity.
Ok, let us go with your statements.
China practices “state capitalism”.
Marx developed capitalism theory as a mixed state regulated economy.
Marx was a primary developer of “a mixed, state-regulated, industrial economy”.
State capitalism can be defined as “a mixed, state-regulated, industrial economy”.
Therefore, state capitalism could conceivably be called “Marxism”.
Since, according to you, China implements state capitalism, China would therefore be “Marxist”.
Since China is now the most powerful country in the world, the Marxists won.
Not even a good try.
China’s economy is capitalist.
Building on a trail of organ theft,Tibetan genocide and worker exploitation
Sorry, Benny-Boo, but it’s Israel that’s the “greatest threat to regional and world peace”.
Israel/US.
Meanwhile, the Butcher of Tehran rules Iran, and Ergoyan states he pretty much controls the Eastern Mediteranean.
It is about time someone has some power to counteract Israel’s impunity. Turkey is rather clear on Palestine. You forgot Egypt. It will soon have the regional heft of Turkey. Egypt is getting involved in Gaza, and will work on reconstruction — whether Israel likes it or not.
Saudi Arabia is no linger interested in supporting various islamic “freedom fighters” for cash, and is talking to Iran. Along with Egypt, just joined Russia-China led SCO.
Israel can pull back its claws and atone by returning land to Lebanon and to Syria. And then implement UN Security Council resolutions — US voted for them. It will be a good start,
And what Lebanese land are you talking about? Turkey is rather clear that they oppose Kurdish rights.Egypt should return the homes they stole when they expelled ALL their Jewish inhabitants.
What Lebanese lands are you talking about?Syria should return the homes stolen from Syrian Jews before they were expelled. Turkey should acknowledge Kurdish rights and give them Kurdistan.
It’s ERDOGAN. If you can’t spell his name, leave him out of this.
“greatest threat”
They don’t even reach honorable mention, let alone “greatest”, in comparison.
Because the Judaeophibic enemies wiss to kill or expell thme, and Israel will not submit to Dhimitude. The greatest threat to Mid East peace is radicalization,population explosion,dictatorship,and poverty.
If Judaeophobic enemies are so bad, then how come Israel has been aiding ISIS in Syria?
“When denying responsibility for the Mercer Street attack, Iranian officials called out the West for its hypocrisy for never condemning Israel’s aggression against Iran. Israel has a long history of taking action against Iran covertly, including through attacks on Iranian commercial ships, brazen assassinations inside Iran, and dangerous attacks involving explosives on Iranian nuclear facilities.”
And these aren’t “Iranian linked”, they are actual attacks against Iran. Iran hasn’t come close to anything Israel has done. More like hypocrisy on steroids.
Iran has its military on the Israeli border.There are no Israeli troops on the Iranian border.
That’s the best you can come up with? That compares to Israel’s actual aggression I mentioned? Have there been any attacks against Israel launched from Syria or anywhere else? And never mind the superpower that has Iran surrounded with military assets. That same superpower that supplies Israel with $3.8 billion per year, vetoes any UN resolution that condemns Israel’s aggression and whose congress is owned by AIPAC. Not to mention Iran is an invited guest, who along with the Russians, defeated ISIS in Syria. Try harder.
The 3.8 billion really annoys you-I’m glad.
Not as much as you might think. I get 100% of my federal taxes back. I can also make damn sure I never use their products. I used to do that when I was still working. Never used anything from “Iscar” which was a company based in Israel that supplied us with some machining products. Now I think I’ll go buy some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Hope this annoys you too.
Bigotry of any kind annoys me. I interact with Arabs and Muslims every day,without animus.
The killing of Iranian scientists by Israeli agents isn’t enough for the World to sanction Israel?
Iranian scientists who build nukes were a danger-“by any means necessary”.
Why should Israel have nukes but Iran not? Only one nation in the Middle East has been expanding its territorial holdings, and it isn’t Iran.
Agree, Mary. The Middle East needs Iran to counter Israeli terrorism.
No, Iran has been at war with its own people,sending IED’s to Iraq, and building Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria.Israel gave up the Sinai and Gaza-it made peace with Egypt. If Iran had not opposed Oslo, perhaps the Palestinians would be in a better place. Iran spoke for a long time about destroying Israel, and covets Jerusalem. Iran has 80,000,00 people;Israel has 8,000,000.Israel’s Nukes are gooood ,necessary, and just. NEVER AGAIN.
“Israel gave up the Sinai and Gaza”
If Israel “gave up” Gaza, why does it still assume powers of rulership over Gaza, including trying to control its imports and exports?
There are no Israelis in Gaza right now.No “powers of rulership”. If Hamas stops importing and using weapons against Israel, then the conditions for the Gazans will improve.
Israel needs to get out of Gaza and Palestine altogether.
Palestine is Israel. Get used to it.
Israel has incurred the hatred of the world and is on IT’S way out. Get used to it!
A poll taken in Europe recently asked residents which nation they most detest. North Korea was #1. Guess which was #2? (Hint: it wasn’t Iran!)
Europe assisted in the Nazi genocide, and was complaisant about Arafat terrorism. They ignore current attacks on its Jewish citizens. Fork Europe.
If Israel doesn’t take off the blockade, restrict every effort at modernization, fishing rights beyond 5 or 10 miles (when they allow even that), cutting off essential services, like electricity, and then gets bent out of shape when the Gazans don’t accept the persecution (just like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto), what would you expect? Ineffective, unaimable rudimentary rockets as opposed to tanks, modern aircraft, drones, further destruction of infrastructure, that’s what.
You are forgetting that Hubris gives rise to its own Nemesis. That is not something to wish for. Today, Israel is begging for enemies, and Nemesis is on the rise. Turkey, Iran and Egypt are rising to counter the might of Israel. It is rather obvious.
Israel has it in its power to rethink its own position in the region, build bridges, instead of constantly burning them.
Iran has made its position quite clear.No peace talks, destroy Israel, and raise its flag over Jerusalem.Turkey feels it has rights to gas deposits off the Israeli coast, and Egypt persecutes its Coptic Christians.Your heroes are heroes only in your imagination.
Maybe they just want the Arab Sector restored, instead of Israel hogging the whole damn thing.
I have never read even ONE account of the Egyptian army shooting coptic children. And your lame, false accusation that Bianca sees other less murderous regimes as heroes is a tell of your distorted thinking and lack of ability to represent others people’s thinking. It’s beneath contempt.
Bianca wandered off the topic, and introduced these other regiemes. Both China and Russia have killed tens of millions of their own people-so who is less murderous?Get your facts straight .
Who does the counting on all of those alleged killings?
Check the Holodor and the Gulags.
Have you read one account of all Egyptian Jews being expelled??
While Israel persecutes its Muslim AND Christian Palestinians. What’s your trip dude?
Show me where this persecution exists-it is you who are tripping.
I think that Irael’s constant killing of innocent Palestinian children might qualify them to win the unjustified murderers award, along with the land theft award… Way too much like the Third Reich and not even close to the once claimed, most moral Army fiction. No lipstick gonna sweeten that PIG….!!!!!!
It is people like you who created the need for Zionism.
Apartheid is persecution per se. And the total defiance of international law on every front, from illegal occupation to nuclear weapons, invasion of neighboring states. Israel is more & more a periah state every day, every year, out of control clepto apartheid, rogue nuclear occupier. Can it get any worse…. One can only wonder…!!!
Israel had to take in Jewish people expelled by the apartheid Arab world and the apartheid Christian world
Palestinians have become devoid of human right’s and ostensibly stateless in the land of their birth and ancestral homeland for millennia. If that isn’t persecution, what else could it be called…..??????
Don’t read much, do you pal?
youCan’t t take opinions which destroys your safe worldview
Log onto http://www.ifamericansknew.org.
Or he could try Mondoweiss.net. Which is the pro-Palestinian website of a Jewish gentleman, Philip Weiss.
Although “Jake” would undoubtedly call him a self-hating Jew, lol
I have-alot of bile.
Google up “The E U ‘s shameless complicity in Israel’s crimes” in the Middle East Eye.
How about letting Israel rewrite the terms of a new JCPOA for the U.S. and then get all Middle Eastern countries, including Israel, to sign on to it?
“If Iran had not opposed Oslo”
Yigal Amir also opposed Oslo, but he had plan -Bang, Bang, no Rabin, no Oslo!!!
Stop making a fool of yourself…or don’t, it’s all the same to me
and you would have been so so happy if someone had murdered Israel’s scientists working on their bombs?
Also on this page, “Explosion reported at Syria’s Latakia port on ship that may be Iranian.”
So, do we also take the same international action against Israel, in proportion to its attacks on Iran?
Why not?
Ships bringing in weapons are legitimate targets,however,it may be that explosives were mishandled by their owners and exploded.
“Quiet you fools, can’t you hear the bell – Masta is calling!”
why are the israeLIES calling for INTERNATIONAL action?
The IsraeLIES (love that!) want other people to do their dirty work…witness Iraq.
Bush,Cheny,Rumsfeld-all good solid Christians looking to make a buck-blame the Jews.
What are you smoking? Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld were all in the bag for Israel.
And in your worldview, the fires out west are being caused by their ZZZ satellites. Cheney gave the orders; he didn’t take them.
Yes, Cheney was in lockstep with the Israeli government. He didn’t have to “take” any orders. Doesn’t mean Iraq wouldn’t have been done had Cheney been struck by lightning and had been opposed to Israel’s wishes. And make no mistake, Israel wanted Iraq to be a fractured state. They aren’t looking for allies, they just want to be surrounded by failed states that they can attack with impunity anytime they please.
Quite the contrary-anarchy is the hotbed of terrorism. It is sometimes possible to negotiate with your enemies if both sides benefit.Try to negotiate with anarchy.
And yet Israel openly stated they wanted ISIS over Assad in Syria. Were they then going to “negotiate” with the headchoppers? They want Iraq and Iran to be just like Syria.
Mary, it’s difficult to reason with someone who supports apartheid, land theft and genocide. I believe I’ll use that dandy little “ignore” option to spare myself the hasbara; perhaps all of us should, since this particular poster is unlikely to ever see Israel other than Disneyland.