UPDATED: Iran Launches Major Drone and Missile Attack on Israel

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1. World war prelude?

   1. We’ll have to wait a few hours … dramatic progression … see where and if they are effective. And, while the invariable pattern has Israel claiming it took out most and the rest landed without hitting anything, will they know say the opposite (true or not) to bring in Washington and shift the focus to Iran?

      1. I was thinking there would be a false flag event before this.

         1. The lies around Al Aqsa Flood were the “false flag” even: to this very day the MSM is repeating those heinous falsehoods, total blood libel, about the alleged “crimes” of Hamas, when we know for a fact that they were either non-existent or perpetrated by Israel against their own citizens.

            1. No. What I meant was a US false flag.

            2. A false flag for the US public? Does it matter? There’s no democracy in the USA anymore: all meaningful elections are strictly rigged, all the media belongs to the same five people and “conspiranoics” (i.e. you and me probably) would surely spot and denounce the false flag since minute one online. They would need to shut down the Internet for such manipulations to work as intended, even censorship is failing.

            3. There are enough people in the US in the “Submissive Void” to gin up support for a WW.

            4. There’s a lot of people who are discontent but clearly not enough. Zionism alone seems to be a motivator for many: when Biden, Trump and Kennedy all proudly proclaim their most extremist Zionism and are not punished by the public opinion the way for example Starmer is in Britain but rather applauded for that… well…

            5. They aren’t so much applauded as financially rewarded, prostitutes all.

            6. There are constant protests in the US. There are around the clock protesters in front of Blinken’s house.

               https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1778091171887395144

            7. I’m aware more or less but how does that manifest in electoral politics if at all? There are at least three anti-Zionist candidates for the upcoming presidential election (Claudia de la Cruz, PSL, Jill Stein, Green Party, and Cornel West, independent) and also at least three ultra-Zionist candidates (Biden, Trump and Kennedy), yet these three are the ones apparently getting all the votes.

            8. Learned helplessness and the electoral college. Massive propaganda. But people under 35 don’t watch cable news, so that is a good thing.

            9. Elections don’t have to be rigged. Unless you’re saying they’re rigged because ONLY an R or D can win.

            10. Do you believe your vote will be even be properly counted by those e-voting black box machines controlled by a private corporation? Don’t you remember how the Democratic Party very clearly rigged the vote for Hillary Clinton and against Sanders (his backers rather than that useful fool) and how they began doing that in the Iowa primary in favor of Biden again before declaring no primary was needed because of alleged health emergency?

                What you say is also true but it’s been getting much worse than that. In Europe the elections are manipulated by the media and some arbitrary rules but the election as such is transparent or mostly so, in the USA and other countries that use electronic voting, it is totally a hidden mechanism that the public does not control anymore and thus not-democracy, just a pretense.

            11. “in the USA and other countries that use electronic voting”

                Well … “the USA” doesn’t use electronic voting. A handful of the 50 states use it. The vast majority use hand-marked paper ballots.

                https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_state

            12. I stand corrected? Unsure…

            13. I believe the vast majority of people vote for R’s or D’s. No difference. So, again, I see no reason for rigging elections. R’s and D’s rigging their own primaries mean nothing. Sanders was horrible too and wouldn’t have been any different than Clinton.

            14. The primaries were rigged, that’s a fact. Also third parties are more popular than ever before, including the only anti-Zionist candidates such as Cornel West, Claudia de la Cruz and Jill Stein. How’s it possible that in Britain, where they have almost exactly the same (un-representative) electoral system as in the USA there’re not just third and fourth and fifth parties with representation but they’re growingly a challenge to the bipartisan regime? With candidates like George Galloway getting double the votes that the twin parties together in a recent by-election…

                I believe that the vast majority in the USA just don’t even bother voting anymore but, as the regime does not count abstention, candidates get elected with barely a very minority vote. Even in presidential elections it’s estimated that less than half the adult citizens vote at all.

                Just that the middle classes live in a bubble…

            15. I’m a long-time third party activist, and here’s the thing about third parties:

                HUGE majorities say they want “a third party,” but that’s actually a number of small minorities each preferring a DIFFERENT third party from the others.

                Someone will want a third party, and might vote Libertarian, but wouldn’t vote Green.

                Someone will want a third party but it has to be “moderate,” with “moderate” meaning different things to different people.

                Most people who say they want a third party end up voting for one of the Big Two, because they can’t find another third party that they really like, or because they’re convinced a third party they do like “can’t win.”

                Duverger’s Law says that electoral systems with single-member districts and first-past-the-post voting tend to boil down to two parties.

            16. Tend to… but look at Britain: SNP: 43 seats, LDP: 15, Plaid Cymru: 3, Alba Party: 2, Green Party: 1, Reform Party: 1, Workers Party: 1, independents: 18 (not counting North Irish seats bc there proportional representation does exist, yet they also tend to 2-party system). Granted that some of them respond to separatist distinct nations (notably Scotland) but just wait to the next election in which both main parties are so much hated, largely because of adopting Zionism, that it’s gonna be chaos. The matter is that third parties would have an option even in such an unrepresentative system as “first past gets the post” if the US electorate and campaign would be different.

                Of course “moderate” voters will rally for the twin party system, I guess that people in Europe is more radical, but still the main English third party is the ultra-centrist LDP. The twin party regime is a scam anyhow: it basically gives all the reason to Lenin.

            17. The Oct 7 Hamas perpetrated massacres were very real.

            18. No! It’s absolutely proven that they were absolutely unreal. Even the MSM had to take their claims back (always with dissimulation) but the key research was made by the Electronic Intifada (then plagiarized by the likes of The Intercept): there’s ZERO evidence of any rape, let alone child murder and there is plenty of evidence of Israel being the one who massacred everybody in the kibbutzim and the rave. BTW, the rave was moved from their original location to the one where it became a human shield for the Hamas advance against a military base.

                The only massacres were perpetrated by Israel against their own citizens, the Hannibal Directive (“kill the hostages”) was used as legal cover but anyhow in many cases, notably the massacre of the ravers, it was totally unjustified even by those draconian standards. All the rest is just lies with clear originators, spreaders and absolutely zero evidence. I just watched yesterday a video where a journalist asks the activist who made up the “burned babies” story for his evidence: the guy shows a photo to the journo and this one says: “I see no baby anywhere” and the agitator replies: “but his mum is there”. Absolutely unbelievable that people like you are still under the spell.

                Oct-7 was a real Hamas operation, a legitimate and honorable one, but Israel was aware beforehand, let it happen, made sure that many Israelis died unnecessarily (all or almost all under their own “friendly fire”) and spread lots of lies about it. The ultimate goal is to genocide Gaza Strip and build the Ben Gurion Canal (this was denounced already in 2017 as a 4-sided pact incl. USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, but for some reason it was not completed back then).

            19. would you like to buy a bridge?

            20. I definitely need one to live under it. Housing prices are prohibitive!

            21. So were the friendly fire incidents where Israel killed its own citizens.

            22. The rest of the world does not think so.

      2. Has Zelensky taken up residence in Tel Aviv? Sure sounds like it.

      3. Only,again,this time the attacks were blunted and useless.

2. This could have been and should have been avoided. All the USA, Germany, EU, all Nations needed to do was stand up to Israel and say you have broken International Laws when you attacked Iran’s Embassy, thus our support is stopping. I think the EU, USA, UK, etc. want to destroy the ME, destroy Islam, destroy those who will not bow down to their abortions, their gender bending, their depravity, their deviancy, so their Globalism expands.

   1. For me, it’s difficult to determine if the dog is wagging the tail or the tail is wagging the dog.

      1. The dog was exterminated. The replacement is an AI monster.

   2. Thinking about it, it looks more like a joke than serious policy. There is not even a dog wagging the tail or the tail wagging the dog? What happened to the dog where is he?
      It gets crazier every day.

      1. It is the US interests to avoid WWIII,which has been temporarily prevented.

         1. Who is executing US interests? Certainly the demented Biden is not serving US interest, he only signs checks in the name of the middle class taxpayers. 39 months of total failure is his record, one military commitment after the other, maybe he can stop Netanyahu until after the election in Nov. No telling what the Zionist neocons have up their sleeve, what Biden says is useless.

         2. Doesn’t look like deranged Biden really means it, he sure makes no real effort unless with temporarily you mean “Until after the election”.

   3. “destroy those who will not bow down to their abortions, their gender bending, their depravity, their deviancy, so their Globalism expands.”

      Quite the pile of bigoted & reactionary horse manure.

3. I wonder if the drones are targeting illegal settlements in the West bank and not Israel proper?

   1. Due to distance and time, I suspect not many will make it. Israel will just scramble jets to knock some out, iron dome will take care care of the rest perhaps. Good opportunity though for Hezbollah in the north to strike at the same time.

      1. They already have. They also took out one of the Iron Dome installations, obviously coordinated with the Iran attack.

      2. Everyone looses.

         1. And some will tightens.

            1. Yes, Hamas and Hezbollah will certainly waste more lives of Arab people in an attempt to kill Israeli people.

      3. It just takes one lucky or unlucky hit depending on how one wants to look at it to cause a major war.

   2. Any settlement Israel makes is legal.

      1. Occupied territory is illegal that why Israel has so many UN resolutions against it

      2. LOL, no it isn’t

      3. pathetic statement, it’s this b.s. attitude that is dragging the whole world to war. exceptionalism….but we wouldn’t expect anything less from your pro-genocide mentality. You must be one of those who believes that the messiah will return soon. dim wit.

         1. Supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah are not pro-peace. The only genocide was perpetrated on Oct 7 byHamas.

            1. It’s like someone beats the shit out of you and then you retaliate by killing that person and everyone in his family (hell, the whole town would be a better comparison). And then you claim that it was their fault that you are a mass murderer.

            2. Tribal warfare is ugly.

            3. New word for genocide.

            4. The old days when defenseless Jews could be led to the slaughter,are over.

            5. And today they are playing the role of those running the slaughterhouse. They even call their victims “animals”.

            6. Kidnapping was perpetrated on Oct. 7th, not genocide.

            7. BS

            8. If the Israeli really thought that the military operation on october 7th constituted genocide they or perhaps the US or perhaps Germany, since they can claim to be the world’s experts on genocide, could bring this case before the ICJ. They should. They would have to however present evidence, which doesn’t exist. They would at the very least have to do more work than just sell utter nonsense to their at best gullible or just cynical sycophants through their trustworthy legacy media servants.

   3. At least one attack hit Ariel, a major illegal suburb of Jerusalem. Reports of missiles hitting other targets just across the River Jordan also exist but can’t confirm. In any case those were not the main targets, rather West Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, near Nazareth (north Israel) and Eilat were the core broad targets, which may have been partly but not fully intercepted.

      Iran claims that it destroyed two key targets: an airbase that was key to the embassy bombing and an intelligence base.

   4. There is no indication that the drones attacked settlements in the West Bank.

   5. The drones are intended to hurt and kill, to create the most political damage.

      1. Exactly, just like Israel’s attack that this is retaliation for, just like we would do if our Embassy/Consulate had been attacked by a State actor, and some of our top military/government officials had been killed.

4. I predict the mainstream media will react at a rate of not less than 60 unprovoked/hour. The only thing I predict as more likely is that I will continue to ignore them.

   1. Agreed. Most of the US Media outlets don’t even mention Israel’s attack on Damascus as the reason. We will be hearing “Unprovoked and Unjustified” nonstop, while all they do is “provoke and justify.”

   2. Exactly. Media is being flooded with the innocence of Israel defending itself by killing Palestinian women and children. Use of AI (Lavender, Gospel, Where’s Daddy), robotic dogs, other “battle tested” weapons they are selling to Western governments, against an army with basically hand weapons.

5. https://apnews.com/article/iran-1953-coup-us-tensions-3d391c0255308a7c13d32d3c88e5f54f

   This guy was a george washington with brains and integrity

   https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mohammad-Mosaddegh

6. From MoA, a good place for updates in comments:

   Jordan has opened its airspace to Israeli Air Force fighters. Together with American aircraft, they are intercepting Iranian drones.
   https://t.me/intelslava/57465

   Israel launched a retaliatory attack on targets in Lebanon.
   https://twitter.com/mylordbebo/status/1779252200033636817

   Iranian Minister of Defense: Any country that opens its airspace or territory to Israel to attack Iran will receive decisive response.
   https://t.me/presstv/93305

   Iraqi security officials say that about 60 Iranian UAVs entered Iraq’s airspace, coming from Iran, and that they will NOT intercept any of them.
   https://t.me/medmannews/2066

7. The US estimates 400-500 drones coming from Iran in multiple waves. And that doesn’t include the several waves of ballistic missiles following, or the missiles launched from Hezbollah and Yemen in what is clearly a coordinated attack. There’s no way Iron Dome intercepts all of them and there are already apparent arrivals in Tel Aviv. Sirens all over Israel.

   Iran has declared its attack is concluded and will not respond further unless Israel does. Which, of course, Israel and the US will…

   1. Then prepare for one thing.
      World War 3

   2. I find the signal from the US blurred and confused. Israel wants war, this leaves no room for doubt. They are in all kinds of trouble and see sucking the US into a wider regional war as a solution. At the very least Netanyahu sees one as his stay out of jail card.
      Iran doesn’t want a war. This is also completely clear. Their almost superhuman restraint and moderation in response to what is clearly meant to be intolerable, not to say criminal, provocations shows this. The problem is they cannot afford to adopt a pushover strategy either.
      The US is much less clear. They say at times they don’t want a regional war – which sure isn’t in US national interest, much less in the interest of your average American, but all of their actions show either that they do or their blundering is the result of a lack of a clear strategy or just utter incompetence or both. At the moment they’re on a steady course to be sucked into one by Israel.

      1. Israel does not wan’t war,but they understand that it inevitable,

         1. Another day another big Zionist lie.

            1. Zionism is gooooooood.

            2. LOL. Killing over 33,000 is evil.

               Stealing another’s land is evil.

               Ethnic cleansing is evil.

               QED Zionism is evil.

         2. The leaders of Israel most certainly want a war and they want the USA to fight it for them.

         3. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Israel has been at war against Iran for decades. Decades! Killing scientists. In Israel. Instrumental in the killing of General Soleimani, while he was in another sovereign country. That country has now given the green light for Iranian rockets, drones, ICBMs to fly over their country. Any American forces anywhere in the ME are targets.

      2. Lord have mercy we do not need to get involved in Israel vs Iran at all, it’s not our fight.

      3. Israel is in violation of law put in place in 1961.

         1. what law is that?

   3. It doesn’t sound like Iran stacked the drones with that much explosives – 20 kg estimated. I’m no expert but quick research seems like half capacity. They are also cheap vs. the $1b in defense weaponry used to thwart them. Also sounds like 5 cruise missiles got through the defense. Seems mainly a warning shot overall. This is what we can do. Don’t retaliate or it will be worse.

      1. I think the drones were employed to draw out anti-aircraft defenses, and potentially to swamp them, clearing a path for the more explosive rockets and missiles.

8. Protests outside Netanyahu ally’s mansion where the PM fled to
   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/protests-outside-netanyahu-ally-s-mansion-where-the-pm-fled

   It seems Netanyahu had to move out of his house due to the protests there – so where does he go? To the mansion of US billionaire, Simon Falic.
   You can’t make this shit up…

   1. I assume this is true. But you need to cite references

      1. Is the Jerusalem Post a good enough source?

         https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-796818

   2. While Palestinian children starve, Bibi’s son enjoys sun in Florida.

9. FJB the real criminal who started the world on a path to World War III!

   1. That was Bill Clinton.

10. Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai
    #BreakingNews:
    #Iran managed to destroy several military locations, many in the south and, in particular, Negev airport and the army facilities.

    The possibility of #Israel responding is higher now due to the damage it has suffered in this Iranian punishment.
    4:24 PM · Apr 13, 2024
    78.2K Views

    1. Its too early to say if any serious damage was sustained, Israel is claiming just minor damage. Time will tell

       1. If Ritter is correct that it was seven Iranian “hypersonic” missiles, none intercepted, I’d say the probability is high that it was major damage. Of course, Israel claims “minor damage” – that is expected.

          1. Ritter also said the crisis is over. I don’t see how. Israel can’t shake anybody down. We already give them everything. There’s nothing more to give. Israel is going to back down. Even if they don’t launch a response they will still continue to assassinate Iranian scientists, support terrorist groups in Iran and bomb weapons depots and warehouses in Syria. Not to mention, using their stooges in US congress to pass more sanctions and other legislation to hurt Iran. I don’t see how there can be any de escalation.

11. It does not sound like it amounted to much, more like token warning.

    1. Cause Iran doesn’t want to get nuked.

       1. You now admit Iran ISN’T suicidal? But you’ve been constantly saying otherwise. That Iran’s is hellbent on destroying Israel and they’re just waiting for the right moment. So, when WON’T they be in danger of being nuked so they can finally wipe Israel off the map??

          1. Its called pushing the limits-a chess game with the lives of millions.

             1. Don’t try to walk back what you said. You said Iran doesn’t want to get nuked meaning your constant bullshit was just that, bullshit.

       2. Another reason why Israel’s nukes are supported by such hypocrites when it came to Iraq’s and Iran’s nonexistent nukes.

       3. And Israel wants to be nuked? Thank God, so far at least there are sane people on the other side who don’t want to destroy the planet.

12. Who started this?

    https://youtu.be/15YgdrhrCM8

13. If this war really gets going, will China choose the moment to strike Taiwan? A Biden trifecta. He blows up Europe, the Middle East, and Asia all at the same time.

    This was all so avoidable, by any routine non-blundering basic foreign policy. It is almost as if they really wanted a vast war, as their way to fix the US economy and re-establish the post-WW2 world.

    But it won’t do that this time. Biden is not FDR, he is more of a Mussolini clown show.

    1. I’m more inclined to name it a Zelensky clown show. Next thing we know Biden will be playing a harp with his…

       1. ha!

       2. You created a mental picture that made me sick and laugh at the same time. Will he need a blue pill?

    2. China likes Taiwan just the way it is, there really is no incentive to change the current status quo. They get high tech items, military and industrial secrets, and money laundering, for no cost to them. Taiwan also likes the status quo, China buys 28% of their exports and Hong Kong another 14% (the US is third at 13%). The diplomatic noise is just for show, to suck up more money from Foggy Bottom, the oligarchs who run the island know which side their bread is buttered on.

       1. Testosterone ,chauvanism, and pride sometimes obscure logic.

    3. China has been stupidly waiting its turn after we defeat Russia, Iran, and North Korea. They keep welcoming our rabid anti China clowns who insult them to their face on their own soil. They just allowed us to station troops near their shores while we setup a powerful naval blockade to block oil shipments to China. Is Xi even awake?

    4. Germán Gorraiz (geopolitical analyst) claims that the USA wants a three pronged war in Eurasia and that the next step (coming for the summer) will be a Philippines-China escalation in the South China Sea rather.

       However it’s important to note that the USA has deployed troops to tiny Taiwan-controlled islands near mainland China, so maybe it’ll be bigger.

       1. Tripwires here, tripwires there, everywhere tripwires as an excuse for more war.

14. Quite foolish, they said previously that a response would take time and now they make it bigger thus this will likely escalate things further.

    Too many warheads ruling the world. Utter fools.

    1. Actually, they should have done something right away. They left too much time for the propaganda machine to do their job. There was no attack by Israel on Iran’s diplomatic facility and Iran’s attack was unprovoked. Weeks went by for a population with an attention span of about a day and a half. And that’s a stretch.

       1. When an embassy is used to plan war against another country-fork it.

          1. “Cause Iran doesn’t want to get nuked.”

             But you’ve already said Iran doesn’t want to get nuked. But yet once more with Iran planning a war with Israel.

          2. that line could have been used by the religious nuts who stormed our embassy in 1979.

             1. They knew Carter was weak,but all they had to do was expell all US diplomats and or US citzens.

15. Dream coming true to all the Armageddon enthusiasts.

16. IRGC Press Service :
    On the night of April 14, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched 115 retaliatory strikes against Israeli targets in response to a strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

    “On the night of April 14, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps carried out 115 retaliation strikes with high-precision long-range ground-based weapons, including missile systems and unmanned aerial vehicles,”

    “As a result of the strikes, the IDF decision-making centers, energy
    infrastructure facilities, workshops for the repair of weapons and military equipment, UAV storage depots, logistics bases, as well as temporary locations of special operations forces and Zionist units were hit”

17. This is a major inflection point. Will Biden chose appeasement and allow Iran to dominate the Middle East or will he have had enough of Iran? That is the question.

    1. The Middle East is Iran’s neighborhood and they won’t be moving out ever. The United States is on the other side of the planet. Guess who has superior rights to deciding who gets a say in the neighborhood, those who live their or the interloper?

    2. He chose appeasement. To appease genocide. To appease mass murder of a people based on their ethnicity on an industrial scale. This sort of appeasement should indeed at the very least be questioned. It more correctly according to international law and international humanitarian law be condemned and every individual engaging in it should be persecuted and prosecuted. If the Neurenberg trials should still offer us any guidance on the prefered outcome here the entire American government should be hanged right next to the Israeli government.

       1. If Hamas had not started its own genocidal war on Oct 7,there would have been no war.

          1. In this respect Israeli apologist are about as stubborn as creationists about their choices of starting points and their denial of actual history. That is about ideology, not about reality.
             And this is where genocide is not just a word. It is not a talking point, like all Zionist apologetics. It is not political rethoric. It actually has a very strictly defined legal meaning, set out clearly in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Israeli should know this, since they signed and ratified the treaty in 1950. You should probably learn about it too, because it is a serious business to engage in apologetics and denial of actual genocide.

             1. Some folks have an ideology-Israel bad,the US bad, “third world good”. the world is not quite that simple. Suggest a proper approach to the Oct 7 atrocities.

             2. Get current – all that Israeli propaganda has been shown to be made up. Tel Aviv is the Sodom in the Middle East.

                How come that festival was moved to that location at the last minute? And where was that vaunted IDF when the breach was made in that unguarded fence? And why didn’t Mossad alert the IDF when in previous weeks it was put up the chain of command that militants in Gaza were practicing for a few weeks before it occurred?

             3. Yes, there is a very strict defined legal meaning, and the war in Gaza does not meet that meaning. Shouting genocide when none is occurring reduce the true value of the meaning in the future.

          2. If Likud and the rest of the Master Race hadn’t kept killing people in Israel and stealing their land, there’d have been no Oct 7.

          3. Please provide evidence that the Hamas attack of October 7th was “genocidal.”

             1. Killing people en masse because of their ethnicity is genocide.

             2. In WW2 the USA killed a large number of Japanese. That not mean the US committed genocide. The US also killed a large number of Germans in WW2. So I guess killing the enemy is genocide if the enemy population is homogeneous. But if it is mixed bag like the USA that is OK.

             3. It was not and neither is the counter attack. Just because their is large number of deaths in a battle zone does not mean there is genocide.

    3. Biden choses nothing: he’s a senile tool.

    4. You’re a perfect example of why Iran should have retaliated immediately. A brain-dead American who doesn’t have the attention span of a gnat. The was a retaliatory strike and it was justified.

       1. And it fizzled.Who has armed Hamas andHezbollah?

          1. Wow, are you deep! LOL

          2. Iran has armed Hezbollah and Qatar has armed Hamas. Who has armed Israel?

             1. the free world.

18. This was a test run of what they can handle. Drones are cheap and plenty.

    1. Air defense systems cost a LOT to use. By forcing Israel to use them to down some inexpensive drones, Iran has caused a lot of money to just go up in smoke, and may have left Israel perilously vulnerable to followup attacks.

       See Larry Johnson’s video in Richard Steven Hack’s post here. He says this far better than I can.

       When the smoke clears, we may understand Iran’s objectives.

       1. The next time Iranian cities may be slagged,and the world will be far more dangerous.

          1. US/NATO support for Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza and violations of international law make the world a far more dangerous place.

             End US aid to Israel now!.

             1. You should be happy that free peoples united to blunt these attacksd.

             2. I am happy that free people are uniting to block Israel’s genocidal attacks.

                I don’t care about blocking attacks on Israel.

          2. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.

             1. Those who have no sword will be dead.

             2. For centuries, Jews and Palestinians lived together in harmony. That changed because of blatant discrimination coupled with the use of the sword.

             3. non-sequitur. Palestinians and Jews lived in harmony for centuries.

          3. Are you suggesting that the Likud will massacre Iranian civilians because of a Iranian attack on IDF military facilities ?

             Really ?

       2. Israel isn’t worried about the air defense cost. U.S. piggy bank is always open. They should be worried about getting overwhelmed.

          1. You are right about the last part. But the US piggy bank is about to be squeezed by rising energy costs, unprecedented deficit spending, and a steadily eroding dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

             1. Monetizing was and is the usual playbook. And short of a total dollar collapse I’d say, the show will go on.

    2. But Israeli drones are equally cheap, equally plenty and Iran does not have an Iron dome.
       This will not end up well to anyone.

       1. Oh yes…the magical Iron dome that’s been tested only against small projectile rockets. Pray they don’t ever have to stress test those in a real attack.

          1. Real attack? What did we watch on Saturday night?

             1. A circus show.

    3. Iran expenditures on the drones, missiles, and UAVs sent to Israel = $2-3 million…
       Israel cost of anti air missiles for cotton dome, arrow-3 and others = $ 1.3 billion…!

       1. Daddy Warbucks has billions under his pillow to hand over. Israel isn’t sweating.

19. Israel war cabinet approves ‘powerful response’ on Iranian soil coming tonight
    https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/134376/israel-response-iran-drone-strike-ballistic-missile

    It would appear that the alleged Biden response in his call to Netanyahu tonight that the US would not support an Israeli response and that Israel should not respond has been ignored.

    Not that I believe Biden actually said any of that, it’s just more CYA BS.

    1. Biden may have sobered up on this occasion. The US cannot afford to involve itself in hostilities over there.

       1. They seem to believe they can and they “must”. The US Empire can’t afford to lose Eurasia, where most of the global economy is.

          1. The problem is that we think it’s ours to lose.

             1. Well, the USA controls most of Europe and West Asia (all but Iran, Syria and Yemen), as well as a sizable chunk of East Asia (the islands arch from Japan to Singapore and even Indonesia) and as of late also Pakistan. It’s also in amicable relations with India, which is “neutral” but much like Italy was neutral in the early days of WWI.

                It’s a big empire (add much of Latin America and Africa, as well as Australia-NZ and most of the rest of Oceania) even if surely mismanaged and, if they don’t act or keep retreating, they would allow China and Russia to displace them, often by just offering a better deal and some muscle to the neocolonies seeking to break free from outrageous historical abuses.

                I’m being advocate of the Devil here, of course, but the Devil has reasons anyhow: can you imagine if Saudi Arabia began selling their oil in yuans, rubles or maybe their own sovereign currency instead of using the USD? Oh, wait, they actually began doing some of that by selling to China (and only to them so far) in yuans (which is surely why they were invited to join the BRICS). Well, in any case, if that happened, the USA would not be anymore able to issue sovereign debt in its own currency and spread its own inflation globally, the USA would face major problems, even bigger of the ones that it’s facing now. Another twist: can you imagine if the EU went actually unified and reneged from US “protection” (protection racket)? They (we, as I’m actually an EU citizen) would automatically become rivals of the USA for North Atlantic and Mediterranean hegemony (it would sure push USA and Russia together against this hypothetical Euro-power but China and India should like it, also Brazil, a natural US rival if ever developed, Mexico even to one extent or another). The Devil is evil but for a reason or several: national security, prosperity, etc.

             2. Bingo!

          2. China has that locked up.

             1. Only somewhat. China has bad press in Asia east of Iran or Pakistan. India is often at odds with China and SE Asian countries strongly distrust Beijing (except little Cambodia and military dictatorship Myanmar), while of course Japan, South Korea and Taiwan also dislike Beijing for their own reasons. All that area is rather pro-USA, and the USA also has strong influence and often military bases in most West Asian countries. They may have given up on Central Asia for the time being but that’s about it.

       2. Desperate times, desperate measures, plus imbeciles with hubris…take it from there.

       3. I don’t think so. I don’t think he has an original thought, therefore the input from Blinkey, Sullivan, et al.

    2. I would not believe Mr. Biden if he said the reason he soiled his pants was because he ran out of toilet paper. Or if he said he didn’t have help getting dressed. I voted for him. Guess that makes me the classic idiot.

20. Larry Johnson recaps the situation:

    Iran Strikes Back, What Will Israel Do Next?

    1. This was an OUTSTANDING analysis. Hopefully Larry’s ideas to end it can be put in place.

       1. Yes, it was. Iran has a crystal clear memory of the U.S. backing Iraq in the 10 year war between Iraq and Iran, going so far as to provide Iraq with the means to attack Iran’s forces with chemical weapons straight from Rochester, New York. My great fear is that Israel uses tactical nukes directly on Iran, telling the U.S. “f*ck you” to any communication advising Israel not to do it. We all know Iran does not have the bomb. Only conventional weapons. So, what does the UN do? What does Russia do? What do the Arab nations that are standing back and watching do? What does Hezbollah do (their rockets can hit chlorine and bleach manufacturing plants)? I can envision Iran rockets and missiles overwhelming the Israel defenses, then a coordinated attack from Hezbollah. Many may die in Israel. This is terrible.

          1. Once again I am amazed at your reference to hitting chlorine plant. What to you think is going to happen?

21. Let a thousand wars bloom. Why, this is Biden’s wet dream. His dreams of grandeur are all coming true.
    Joe Biden: a human who will be remembered and worshiped by scorpions everywhere on the solar system’s radioactive Gaia.
    Personally, I sincerely hope this clusterfuck completely sinks Biden’s presidency.

    1. I’m beginning to question the human part.

       1. There is a movement among democrats to remove his *ss at the convention. Who they will replace him with is anybody’s guess. Unless a court case puts Mr. Trump in the slammer before the election, he will be back. The scary thing is yesterday my wife showed me an article that said Mr. Trump is gaining favor among young voters. It may be that some young voters are aghast at Biden’s uncompromising obedience to the right-wing government of Israel, and, the MIC.

          1. It would be Newsom, who is Biden with more hair.

             1. With lot less experience.

             2. That can be a plus if you consider what Biden’s experience was made of.

             3. Biden is a better liar. Now that’s more experience!

             4. Warmonger extraordinaire.

             5. Warmongering is the U.S. policy since WW2. That doesn’t make it unique for Biden.

             6. And just as dumb. I was OK with the $15 minimum wage, but his call for $20 is a bridge too far and it is going to increase the line at the unemployment offices. Hours will also be cut. H*ll on earth for employees, young and older. Very stupid move. His political career is done in CA. Big donors will flee.

             7. I disagree, although I hold no fondness for Newsom. Prices at fast food and grocery stores were already the result of outrageous gouging. This was admitted by the industry, once the pandemic was over. The wage increase amounted to price increases in change, not dollars. It is greed and not economic stress on chain businesses. They are perfectly capable of deciding not to increase profits in favor of workers. This did not apply to independent mom and pop restaurants.

                Letting people go is about vengeful rich corporations. Why would you cape for them?

                The pandemic ushered in the largest transfer of wealth upward. This is a rigged system, not a so-called free market.

          2. Biden will be removed and Kamala will take over and Hillary will become acting VP? and from there Hillary works her way to the presidency again? Can that happen?

             1. Nightmare on Elm Street territory.

             2. No. Put what you are smoking away.

          3. And the young voters will be very disappointed when Trump green lights a join Israel USA attack on Iran.

    2. It’s doubtful that he wants more things to do. Not even Bush was stupid enough to start a real war with Iran, even he understood that it’s extremely difficult and that Iran is a far, far bigger project than Iraq.

       There’s also zero reason to believe that Trump would be any better.

       1. I don’t really care about Trump, as the country is screwed either way. I want Biden to lose because I deem him to be an irretrievable POS. After having lived through 70 years of bullshit from people like Biden, I have seen my fill. I also regard the US political system to be mortally wounded, so much so that it won’t matter who is elected. We will end up with someone just as bad because this is what we have become.

          1. The only alternative is Trump, who has attempted a coup and lied about a deadly virus. I certainly don’t want USA to fall to another huge ego who wants people to praise him 24/7. So yes, it does indeed matter who is elected since if USA falls so could other western countries. Ideas spread including bad ones so cool heads do really need to prevail.
             The MIC in USA seems unstoppable, and although it results into a lot of harm it’s not alone doing all of this.

             1. No, I assure you Trump and Biden will not be the only names on your ballot.

             2. Look which powers in the US spend 20 million for gain of function in creating the deadly virus.

             3. Mr. Biden, controlled by powers beyond we the common people, has spent millions of our tax dollars on the destruction of other people in other countries. Speaker of the House, Mr. Johnson, with bilateral agreement, has proposed legislation creating enhanced spying on us, without warrant. This country is in 1984 territory. Better start practicing the recitation of “I Love Big Brother” so as to appear sincere.

             4. Far left gibberish insofar as a coup is concerned. And, all of the information was not yet known about COVID when Trump was Prez. However, it became much clearer when Ol Joe assumed the title of Doctor-in-Chief, and he made it far worse. Then you have the crazy Guvs in some States instilling fear to achieve more power.

             5. Russiagate was a Clinton/Dem/security state coup, and so is governmental lawfare. Biden inc also lied about many things during the pandemic. And no, not a Trump supporter. I never voted for him and I won’t be voting for either Biden or Trump. How do you wash away the genocide of 100s of thousands of people?

             6. It will be done. Anyone remember Cast Lead, or, Protective Edge? Both quietly put away, nothing done.

             7. “How do you wash away the genocide of 100s of thousands of people?”

                I agree. Biden is going to be the worst candidate on my ballot. Genocide will do that. But as soon as I wake up on November 6th and see Biden has lost to Trump, I’m certainly not going to feel any better. And not a damn thing is going to change.

             8. Wars, we are fucked. But I can’t stamp approval on genocide.

             9. And if I was forced to vote for one of the two, that would be my reason for voting for Trump.

             10. He will continue the wars. He will promote another “tax reform” to benefit himself and billionaires.

             11. “If voting made a difference (in foreign policy), they wouldn’t let us do it.”

                 Mark Twain (the wise one in this regard)

             12. I’ll very likely vote Trump, but Biden might pardon Assange, whose health might be so bad now that he’s no longer a threat.

                 I would really appreciate a pardon.

             13. Voting Trump is like self-flagellation.

             14. Ditto on Assange. (only reason for upvote)

             15. It is why there are reports that young voters are beginning to abandon Mr. Biden, even looking at Mr. Trump. At the convention this June, my wish is for there to be a movement to replace Biden with Sanders. I am not kidding. I know it will not happen. The democratic party snuffed Sanders’ attempts in 2016, and 2020. Sanders is not perfect by any means, but look at the alternative. G-d help us if RFK, Jr. makes any headway.

             16. Michelle Obama would win in a landslide But who knows what her policy would be?

             17. People are tired of pre-packaged -Presidents.

             18. That is how Trump got elected. He was “none of the above” in 2016. MO could beat Trump at his own game because she doesn’t carry the baggage of any other nationally known politician. As to what her policies would be, I have no clue. But the American voters want novelty, not policy. She could win. Biden can’t.

             19. At the moment, 270 To Win shows Biden 3 electoral votes short of winning the election, and Trump 51 votes short. If Biden can’t win it, then surely Trump can’t either, so who will?

             20. I am surprised by the poll. But I am certain that Biden has no chance of being re-elected. The Democrats failed their supporters over the past 4 years. The swing votes that elected Biden will swing against the Democrats this time. Biden is the worst candidate the Dems could run at this time. Any other Dem politician would lose, but not as bad as Biden. But MO is not a politician, is articulate, immensely popular and would make the election about popularity, not policy. She has no baggage. MO would beat Trump in a landslide. She doesn’t want to run, but she would run if BO, Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi all told her she is the Dems only hope of beating Trump.

             21. Netanyahu. He has control of both parties. AIPAC, baby!

             22. The CIA, always.

             23. Trump was an outsider,hated by the bigwigs in both parties-he had not paid any dues by working his way up in politics, and he was hard to control.

             24. Quinnipiac poll indicated Sanders would beat Trump by 12%.

             25. Same as her husband. Full support of Israel, cool with the coup in Ukraine in 2014, cool with millions for the NAZIs in Kiev.

             26. The Obamas became sick wealthy as a reward for bailing out Wall Street. Where do you think that loyalty lies?

          2. I agree. There was a great piece posted by a writer for the Libertarian Institute. It captures the mood of the U.S. and lack of concern for what is going on in Gaza: https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/triple-tap-murders-oh-look-a-cat-video/

             1. Cause to a certain extent,Hamas brought war down on the heads of Gazans.

          3. It’s going to be a bumpy road whichever wins. Personally always feel if going in the wrong direction need to change. And try to survive four years going in another wrong direction rather than continue any bad one for eight. Just enables the bastards.

          4. Listening to what the television tells us is what made most of us become what we are. Mushrooms.

       2. Subzero reason. Randal Flagg cannot be trusted.

       3. He’s a moron. And he always telegraphs plans ahead of time. Just like Nordstream:

          Biden vows to ‘free’ Iran as Tehran marks 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover amid protests
          “Don’t worry, we’re gonna free Iran,” President Joe Biden said in an aside during a campaign speech in California on Thursday. “They’re gonna free themselves pretty soon,” he added.
          https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/biden-free-iran-anti-government-protests-mahsa-amini-rcna55624

          1. Trump will not be any different. It was he that vacated JCPOA, an agreement that was working. For good measure, he vacated the Open Skies Treaty, and, the INF Treaty. For really good measure, he provided weapons to Kiev.

             1. Why bring up Trump? I didn’t think antiwar was a political binary thinking site.

       4. No but removing Biden is the first step to purging the democratic party of Israel Firsters. Republicans are a lost cause in that regard, but if AIPAC’s influence can be limited to them, that is a significant improvement.

    3. The Great Israeli/US/UK victory had lifted Biden’s chances at reelection.

       1. Biden and Bibi’s interests are in direct conflict.
          Bidens interest is not to be dragged into an Iranian war before (and presumably after) the elections.
          Bibi’s goal is to prolong his stay in power by escalating the war so elections don’t occur. Whether Israel win or lose is beside the point for him. It’s just about the state of war.
          As far as Biden is concerned, the current state is optimal: Iran flexed its muscles, Israel repelled an attack, US vassal states obeyed and western technology proved its superiority.
          The is the best he can hope out of this situation.
          Unfortunately for him, Bibi (as well as Russia, Iran and China) wants Trump in the white house and the best way to achieve this is to drag the US into a fresh conflict.

          1. Oh please, with the Dem propaganda of foreign election interference and wishes. Putin had already said he preferred Biden because he was a predictable politician.

             1. Putin is a very honest guy, facts on the ground be damned.
                Sir, you convinced me.

             2. What exactly are your “facts on the ground”?

                Russiagate?

          2. A great victory has been achieved. Unfortunately, both sides will learn from their mistakes-peace is far far away.

             1. A great victory for the evil killers of the world.

                Israel is a monster that needs to be slain.

             2. It appears you look an a mirror.

          3. I don’t think so. It was Trump that vacated the Open Skies Treaty and the INF Treaty.

          4. There isn’t a precedent for U.S. voters changing course (at least not an incumbent) during wartime. And it rarely happens anywhere else either – look at Israel now with Netanyahu below 10% approval. Most recent was a vulnerable George W. going against a guy, Kerry, who had a history of indecisiveness.

       2. Is that how you felt when the Nazi Regime had that Great victory in 1940?

          1. Perhaps you were alive the,I wasn’t.

             1. Perhaps you should study history?

             2. I have. could you “feel” decades before you were born?

             3. oh my – correction: “Is that how you would have felt….”

             4. My father was alive then, was in the Army, fought the NAZIs in the Middle East, North Africa, then France (Normandy), then Germany.

             5. And so what?

             6. Great that you dad did that.

       3. The Great Israeli/US/UK genocide marks the beginning of the end.

          BTW, your a steaming pile of shit for celebrating genocide. A murderous asshole, that’s you.

          1. The only genocide was the Oct 7 pogrom,which is being righteously avenged.

             1. Hamas broke out. Did atrocious things. The IDF pitched in, taking out more than 400 Israelis.

             2. Nonsense.

             3. Nonsense?

                Nope. Probably an undercount.

                Have you researched the subject of friendly fire casualties on 10-7? Several Israeli soldiers have gone public about the Hannibal directive being applied to civilians, houses being shelled, cars being hit by missiles w/o knowing who was in them.

             4. The numbers don’t lie, but Zionists do.

          2. Be careful what you wish for. Karma has a way of coming back to bite.

             1. Zero tolerance for genocide defenders.

                Feel better?

             2. Obviously you’re more bothered by an angry curse than by the mass slaughter of over 33,000 in Gaza, war pig.

22. Can we agree on the fact that both sides – Iran’s and Israel’s leading class – are simply idiotic, irrational and religiously blind? They’re both military-controlled too.

    1. I don’t find bombing a consulate in a third country to be a particularly religious act.
       Israel is the problem. Israel has been attacking targets inside Iran for decades. How many times has Iran fired weapons into Israel? AFAIK, to this point, only Lebanon has been regularly engaged with Israel in any substantive numbers.

       1. Yes. It’s not religious if religion means something good to you. But those people don’t really have a religion. They have a satanic inversion of that.

          1. what a ridiculous thing to say. It’s this very attitude that drives all these hostilities. Religion is a huge problem, but Israel is the one who acts like a violent and petulant child, Israel attacked Iran 1st on foreign soil. the double standard is painful, is it so simple as “Arabs are all bad, non arabs good”? sure seems like Israel is the Aggressor here.

             1. The Iranians aren’t Arabs.

             2. Arabs are primarily Saudi and their little nations adjoining them. Palestinians aren’t Arabs, as Arabs aren’t a race.

             3. You’re right, Arabs aren’t a race. They’re a group defined by what language they speak. So far as I know, most non-Jewish Palestinians speak Arabic, which means they’re Arabs.

             4. We speak English too, but we’re not English.

             5. Israel attacked Iran on Iranian soil. That’s what diplomatic facilities are considered to be.

             6. Iran attacked the Israeli embassy in Argentina,as well as a Jewish cultural center.They killed children,not diplomats. Read and learn.

             7. Once more with retaliation for Iran’s alleged attack in 1994. You’re a clown.

             8. If its true,which it is,its true.

             9. Agreeing that you are a clown. Good for you.

             10. Brilliant repartee which contributes nothing to the cause of peace,or even understanding.

             11. We attacked Iraq and in between the attacks (CIA Bush and Bush the Junior), Daddy Longlegs Clinton’s SOS Madeline Albright said on 60 Minutes that her Administration thought it was worth it that 500,000 Iraqi kids were killed as a result of THEIR actions. So get your piddly “they killed children” hypocrisy outta herre.

             12. What the fork does the Iraq mess have to do with the Arab-Israel mess?

             13. Because that’s when we first stuck our nose into the Middle East in a military manner (for Israel).

       2. What about the Iranian attacks on the Israeli embassy and a Jewish cultural center,both inArgentina.

          1. Lebanon is not part of Iran.

             1. I never said it was. It is under the defacto control of Iran.

    2. I could agree to that except that Israel is the agent provocateur and also the genocider of Palestine in general and most recently of Gaza, which has gone from concentration camp to death camp. I’m very much against the Iranian patriarchal and fascist regime but Israel is much much worse: it is a nazi colony proud to being nazi and genocidal.

       It’s much like the Ukraine War: Putin is bad but the Ukro-nazis are much much worse. It’s like WWII: Churchil (and Britain in general) was evil but Hitler was so extremely evil that standing with London was the thing to do (lesser evil logic).

       1. Palestinian rights will be achieved when they come to accept that they must share,and things will not go back to the way they were.

          1. I don’t understand what you mean, who are “they” in your sentence?

             1. Both sides must learn to share or die.

             2. That’s the Palestinian project: a single secular non-racist state from the river to the sea, full right of return of all refugees, etc. That means that the racist “Jewish state” needs to be terminated for good.

             3. Watch interviews of Palestinians on youtube.The general message is” its our land,they can go elsewhere”. Considering how the Arab world and most of the Islamic has expelled all of its Jews,do you really think Israelis will or should give up national sovereignty for pie in the Sky.

    3. No we cannot agree. There is no sign of irrationality on the Iranian part. That’s much of a problem for Israel as it is for the US and their European lapdogs. There is in perfect contrast ample evidence of that on the Israeli side. Religion and politics never mix particularly well, but the Israeli beat the Iranians hands down. It is after all by referencing to the Biblical genocide on the Amalek that the Israeli attempted to encourage genocidal fervor in the Israeli public and military, as a way to exterminate a people, not only with an unburdened conscience, but as a way to fulfill a religious duty, obey a mitzvah.
       So if the Iranians ever sink all the way to the Israeli level of moral depravity we can maybe attempt both-sideism with something of a straight face. Not in this world though.
       In this world the entire West stepped off what they imagined to be a moral highground, hypocritical though it always was, right into a self-dug hole next to it. Whenever they stand on their toes to peer over the edge you can still hear their shrill and hollow sounding lamentations offend your ears.

       1. While both of those regimes have to deal with pressure from religious factions, Iran has been remarkably restrained, for decades, in terms of bowing to those pressures when it comes to foreign policy. The Iranian regime acts like a major regional power … which it is … without going hog-wild in response to every perceived provocation. Israel acts like a small bully with a big protector friend … which it is … and that perceive protection allows it to kow-tow to every insane demand by every religious faction.

          1. Or Iran is being very patient,waiting for their nukes to be ready,or the US to collapse from a failing dollar. Iran is a one party system,Israel multipartied.

             1. So? We’re a one party system too when it comes to foreign policy.

             2. No-we have two parties in agreement on this issue.

             3. We have one warmonger party when it comes to Israel – follow the money.

       2. Meanwhile,Iran has repeatedly attacked Israel,set up its proxy armies to do so, and oppossed Oslo negotiations.

          1. You got that reversed. Israel attacked Iran repeatedly, not the other way around. And Oslo is killed dead and it’s corpse burned to a crisp by Israel.
             Apartheid and murderous colonialist racism that necessarily and inevitably follows from Zionism is the disease in need of a cure here. Your intent on contributing to the body of evidence of this diagnosis is really superfluous.

23. Iran’s Truthful Promise: 400-500 missiles, drones launched at ‘Israel’
    https://english.almayadeen….

    The first batch of Iranian ballistic missiles has been launched toward Israeli occupation targets in occupied territories, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported post-midnight on Sunday.

    On its part, the US-based ABC said that it believes that there will be anywhere near 400 to 500 drones and missiles launched from Iraq, Syria, South Lebanon, and Yemen, however, the bulk of these weapons will be fired from Iran.

    A senior US official confirmed to ABC that the United States will help “Israel” intercept every possible aerial target in the region, despite the fact that Iran told the US that its forces will come under the line of fire if it assists “Israel”.

    According to the news outlet, upward of 85% of these targets will be intercepted, leaving at least 60 highly capable aerial objects to hit their intended targets. The target is reportedly expected to be three Israeli military bases, one of which hosts F-35 fighter jets.

    Moreover, a US official told Bloomberg that they expect that the Israeli airborne defenses will be confused with the simultaneous drone and missile attack, considering their different speeds, altitudes, and directions.

    Note that this is a coordinated attack and the evident intent is to have the slower-moving drones absorb the Israeli Iron Dome defense, and while they are reloading the launchers, let the ballistic missiles through to their targets. In other words, Iran is doing what Russia does to Ukraine and what the Axis of Resistance is doing in general to Israel and the US: attrition warfare. Drain the enemy of his resources and then hit him.

24. Iron Dome appears to have failed to stop all the drones as expected, as shown in Youtube videos of arrivals in Tel Aviv. No air defense can withstand 400-500 drones followed by waves of ballistic missiles. If Hezbollah were to fire a tiny fraction of its 100,000+ rockets, drones and missiles, the Iron Dome would be utterly overwhelmed. This attack has been a slap in the face for Israel.

    From Jackson Hinkle:
    The IRON DOME IS FAILING — MAJOR IRANIAN SUCCESS!
    https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1779297071100481795

25. Stupid Disqus won’t let me post this directly since I posted it over at Andrei’s site, so here’s the link to that post:

    http://disq.us/p/2yfktqa

    This is about Richard Medhurst live-streaming events.

    1. There are probably some significant exaggerations here. But
       this link quotes Iran’s statement to the UN. It is VERY IMPORTANT because it speaks to their intentions. So, I’m going to paste it here.

       “Conducted on the strength of article 51 of the UN Charter pertaining to legitimate defense, Iran’s military action was in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒅. However, should the Israeli regime make another mistake, Iran’s response will be considerably more severe.”

26. Pray the Likud finally sees the light and accepts the generous offer of a lasting and secure peace based on the 242 lines.

    242 is better than 181 and much better than the Algerian outcome.

    Pray for peace

    1. I see no chance for that whatsoever. Netanyahu’s right lead foot is pedal to the metal all the way off the cliff.

       1. He’s suspiciously quiet.

          1. Who?

             1. Netanyahu.

             2. Don’t worry. Satan doesn’t die.

          2. Drip, drip, drip…if you recall the history of WW2…it didn’t start all at once.

    2. That is not going to happen.

27. I think it was effective on a few levels. It was a response to an attack on an embassy, against international law. It demonstrated that Israel’s defense is not invulnerable. It sussed out actors in the ME willing to be an arm of the US empire. It warned the US and scheduled the assault whereby the US could not claim itself a target, to be directly involved.

    It did so without massive casualties, which would have enabled Israel’s longstanding position of ever-present victimhood. It was not a barbaric act of bloodlust. It was a psychological tour deforce. It gave Palestinians hope that someone cared.

    1. +++

    2. I think that Jordan and other ME Leaders, are going to have to face their own populations soon and nobody will save them. All they had to do is stand down and tell the USA, they will not play the War Game for Zionist.

       1. I haven’t concluded whether the Zionist regime is an empire proxy or if it is merely the case of shared oligarchy, or one sided oligarchy from Israel to the US.

          1. Israel is no proxy. Israel acts independently of the US. The Israel lobby has great influence and almost completely controls US Middle East policy But the influence of the lobby is generally restricted to the Middle East and Israel does not interfere in US policy in Europe (Ukraine), the Far East or Latin America and has limited influence over US policy in Africa.

             1. Sorry, I do not share your certainty.

       2. The Persian Gulf regimes except Yemen are mostly outdated monarchies plus the Egyptian autocracy that depend on US support cling to power. That means the regimes must support Israel despite the fact that the Arab people completely support the Palestinian resistance. Eventually the Arab people will overthrow Sisi and the monarchs. But until that happens the Mid East Arab monarchies and Egypt will support US policy regarding Israel and Palestine.

    3. You listed Too many items to just be effective…! It was Super Effective…!

28. Why didn’t the US intercept the missile that struck the Iranian Consulate building in Damascus and killed some top level people?

    1. Why would they?

       1. Why wouldn’t they in our crusade(?) for peace and stability ?

       2. To support the “rules based international order” they’re constantly babbling about?

       3. A better question is how would the US do that?

    2. Good question…. Israel is Joe’s Madam?

    3. You can’t seriously mean that.

29. CBS interrupted their Masters broadcast with a “special news bulletin”, in which a solemn woman of indeterminate origin announced the Iranian attack, implying that it was of concern to any Joe Sixpack watching the Masters. Why would he care? Because his money funds Israel, and his son may have to die for Israel.

    1. Did they interrupt programming when Israel began the genocide?

30. Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee set to face Biden in November’s election, has said on social media that Iran’s attack would never have happened if he were president.

    “The weakness that we’ve shown is unbelievable,” Trump said. “It would not have happened if we were in office.” He then posted clips of a Pennsylvania campaign rally and his comments to his Truth Social platform.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/maga-launches-blistering-attack-on-joe-biden-after-iranian-strikes/ar-BB1lBeLN?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=839fa65a78674bd28021028627f907fb&ei=6

    1. I’m thinking his brain is as rotted out as Biden’s. Two ghouls running for the top slot.

    2. Wash, rinse, repeat.

31. On cue, Mr. Trump blabs that were he in the White House there would not have been an attack against Israel. Also on cue, Austin called the attack by Iran “unprecedented” “unprovoked”. And, on cue, Speaker Johnson blamed Biden (?) for the attack. I just love the dance around what Israel did to “unprovoke” Iran, also to ignore the attacks over the years by Israel, including murdering Iranian scientists. And, oh, there is the thing Israel is doing in Gaza called something like genocide/ethnic cleansing.

32. Iran’s retaliatory attack was justified. But it was a stupid mistake. Militarily Iran’s attack was ineffectual but politically, it was a disaster that hurt Iran, the axis of resistance and the Palestinians. Yesterday almost 100 members of Congress were calling for cutting or restricting military aid to Israel. By Monday many of them will be calling for increased emergency military assistance to the Zionist regime. The massive Iranian missile attack was almost completely blocked by US funded Israeli defenses. There was negligible damage to Israel and almost 100% success in intercepting the Iranian drones and missiles.

    It made Iran appear weak and Israel appear like a victim to the gullible public in the US and the G7 nations. It made it seem like US expenditures on Israel’s “defense” are justified. For the past six months support for US military aid to Israel has been eroding while international and US solidarity for the Palestinians has been increasing. I fear that much of that work was undone by Iran’s ineffective attack yesterday.
    Iran’s ineffective attack played into the Zionist game plan by shifting the focus from Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the Israeli-Iranian conflict. After six months of push back, American public was waking up to the reality of Israeli genocide in Gaza and questioning and rejecting the pro-Zionist MSM narrative. By massively attacking Israel, Iran has given the MSM and Biden ammunition to revive the phony narrative of Israel as the victim of Iranian aggression.
    As with everything in the Middle East, the Palestinian people will be the main victims of Iran’s attack.
    I understand that Iran believed that Israel’s escalating acts of terror against Iran required a strong response, especially after the attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus. But the truth is that for those who choose to escalate conflict, the consequences of war are almost always worse than the justification. In hindsight, Iran and the Palestinians would be better off today and tomorrow if Iran had not attacked Israel yesterday.

33. So no one died?

    1. The intention of Iran in this and any other retaliation is not to kill like Israel does… rather to target infrastructure and military facilities to limit Israel resources…!

34. IDF Spokesperson John Fetterman (D-Genocide) is on CNN baying for blood. The guy is an all time Grade A okey doke grifter.

35. American politicians and detachment from reality.

    1. You could say that again…!

36. Biden, Trump, and Netanyahu on Pluto (O2 optional). A satisfactory result, or a good start, take your pick.

37. Another provoked war between Iran and Israel in the Middle East, just as the war between Russia and Ukraine was provoked years before.
    In both instances, the Biden administration is involved.
    In the case of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Minks Accords were sabotaged because they contained a federal solution within Ukraine between Ukrainian and Russian speaking parts of the country.
    In the case of the evolving Iran-Israel conflict, it was the Netanyahu Israeli government who provoked the war by assassinating two Iranian generals and five other persons with its bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, clearly an act of war.
    Did the Biden administration encourage Netanyahu in that most recent war provocation, just as it had done in encouraging Zelensky to turn down any peaceful solution to the Ukrainian ethnic and geopolitical conflict?
    Why?
    John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has given the answer on CNN: the Israeli Netanyahu government will take advantage of the pretext of an Iran’s retaliating attack on Israel to destroy Iranian nuclear weapons manufacturing facilities, its primary goal for years.
    We shall see in the coming days if that holds true or not.

    1. Could be. Problem is that there may not be any nuclear weapons facilities, their being yet another bullshit story from DC and TelAviv.

38. Earlier, Iranian media suggested the IRGC targeted the Nevatim Airbase in the Negev Desert, one of Israel’s largest installations in the area, which houses some of its US-supplied F-35 fighter jets. A state-affiliated Iranian news outlet published unconfirmed footage purporting to show successful strikes in the Negev region.

    The Nevatim Airbase is also home to the Mossad secret and permanent center which was most likely hit by a hypersonic missile bypassing air defense systems and allegedly resulted in death of dozens of intelligence officers…!!!

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