Israel launched air strikes on the Iranian capital Friday night. While the extent of the damage is unclear, the US is expecting Iran to retaliate.
Iranian media reported that some sites in the capital city of Tehran were targeted. A statement from the Israel Defense Forces confirmed the strikes. “In response to months of continuous attacks … The Israel Defense Forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran,” it said.
According to Axios, the US expects Iran will retaliate. “US and Israeli officials believe Iran will respond militarily,” the outlet reported, adding, “but hope it will be limited and allow the two adversaries to break the tit-for-tat cycle.”
However, the White House is concerned that Iran’s response to Israel will lead to a regional war. An official speaking with the Wall Street Journal confirmed that Tel Avi did inform Washington it was preparing to strike Tehran but did not specify how far in advance Israel warned the US of its plans.
The US claimed Israel’s attack on Iran was an act of self-defense. “We understand that Israel is conducting targeted strikes against military targets in Iran as an exercise of self-defense and in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack against Israel on October 1st.” National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett continued, “We would refer you to the Israeli government for more information on their operation.”
Last week, top-secret US intelligence documents provided some details of Israel’s preparations to strike Iran.
Over the past year, the Middle East has moved closer to an all-out regional war as Israel has attacked several neighboring countries, conducted assassinations throughout the region, and slaughtered Palestinians.
On October 1, Iran attacked military sites in Israel with nearly 200 missiles in response to Tel Aviv killing Hamas’s political leader in Tehran and assassinating Hezbollah’s leader in Beirut. Tel Aviv has been vowing retaliation for the Iranian attack throughout the month. Tehran has said it will respond to any Israeli attack.
Just before Israel attacked Iran on Friday, the US moved fighter jets from Europe to the Middle East.
In the leadup to the Israeli strike on Iran, Tel Aviv requested the deployment of an American THAAD air defense system. The White House granted the request, and now 100 American soldiers are manning the system in Israel, making them a potential target for any Iranian response.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Israel is the loose cannon…
Uncle Sam is the artillery officer managing that cannon.
Provoking a war is now self defense. We want you to fight us so we are going to punch you in the nose so we can then defend ourselves.
Precisely.
Iran, Russia and China are reacting too slow and rather reluctantly. If MIC needs some escalation, it is necessary to kick them a bit harder.
Seems the IDF and Pentagon don’t have Hypersonic capabilities. Yet, Iran has its own home grown Hypersonic missiles.
Local videos from Social Media show Iranian AD successful in knocking out Pentagon/IDF missiles.
The Likud’s best move for Israelis would be to sue for peace.
Thankfully, time is not on their side. Their economy is in a shambles, their army is overextended, and the world simply doesn't believe a word they say. So much for making war by way of deception.
Well the neocons and neolibs are rubbing their hands with glee. Iran finally had enough of their scientists and political leaders being attacked and gave a very measured response. Now everything going forward is “self defense” for the paranoid criminal enterprise known as Israel.
Would the vulgar yanks deny self defence to Israel had the Iranians wiped out one of their embassies?
Israel, to them, is always the victim and always is acting in self defense no matter what.
Can't somebody just wipe Israel off the map, and get this whole bloody thing over with?
I wish. Unfortunately everyone is concerned about being "blamed" for starting a war – except the US and Israel for the most part.
As Richard Wolff said yesterday on Dialogue Works, no one want to become Lebanon in the process.
I've been complaining that even Russia doesn't want to do much about the situation except send some defensive systems to Iran. Worse, both Putin and Lavrov are still babbling nonsense about the "two-state solution", which is utterly dead in the water and always was.
I read that Putin puked out something about “Israel dealing with terrorists or terrorism”.
They are hedging their bets. Putin, but especially Lavrov, are incredibly smart and know history. There is no excuse for the pretend ignorance.
It will happen. It will be bloody and have many ramifications. It'd be much better if the USA, Britain and Germany stopped supporting Israel and demanded a Democratic Palestine, a South Africa style solution.
The question is, what did they hit?
There's smoke in the distance. It must be war.
Nothing much…1
Iran says "limited damage" and that the explosions in Tehran were product of anti-aircraft defense. Videos from Tehran show no large fires nor smoke plumes (except for lesser roadside fires) and also a quite efficient anti-aircraft destroying something, prbably a Zionist missile.
They also bombed Syria and Iraq.
I wonder whose air space was used or offered and who refueled the jets encounter and back ?
According to some reports, 100 aircraft were used by Israel. We refueled them. Perhaps with tanker jets from Cyprus. The flight for the jets is 2,000 miles.
Folks, by refueling the jets, we are now in an undeclared war against Iran.
Neocons on both sides of the aisle are getting off about this, just in glee with the prospect of a regional war, which could wind up a nuclear war.
I'm inclined to doubt the 100 aircraft number. Depends on how many of what ballistic missiles could be carried on the aircraft involved and how many of them were actually fired.
Hopefully we get more details – from the Iranian side – going forward. Anything the US and Israel says will be lies.
Perfectly timed by the U.S. and Israel. Just twelve days before the election.
It is time for Iran and Hezbollah to overwhelm Israeli air with missiles, accurate missiles. All military bases. All ports. THAAD base sites. Forward IDF position on the Lebanon/ Israeli border (soldiers, tanks, anything in between.
Also, ready the one or two nuclear weapons that Iran could have constructed for a special occasion.
Iran won't fire the first nuclear shot, they dominate conventional warfare, they don't need it.
Not if Israel uses one or more of theirs.
I said “first”.
Israel retaliation seemed to have been weak…! So no Iranian counter retaliation is expected…!
Retaliation? RETALIATION!!?? So, the provocateur alleges the attack to be retaliation, and the U.S. media parrots what Israel says.
I do expect Iranian retaliation. It was a gratuitous attack and Iran has now tested its Anti-Aircraft Force with excellent score. Iran is a regional power the size of Mexico, Israel is nothing but an arrogant genocidal prick.
Iranians officials have been saying they would not want major regional war but they are ready for it…! Israel has lost its deterrence against Iran…! But Iran has been graining full deterrence against Israel. The weak Israel strikes this time and the last time were the evidence of this development. Also the fact that Israel chose not to attack Iran’s oil and nuclear facilities would support this even further. Therefore as far as Iran is concerned, Iran’s main goal confronting Israel is already achieved for them….! I am sure Israel already knows this but as usual they would make severe propaganda against it..! So, the main question is does Iran care about its PR and media image standing against Israel specially as viewed by the lying western world..?! If the answer is yes, then Iran would retaliate against today’s retaliation by Israel…! If the answer is no, they would not. I lean to believe the latter…!
The only real questions are:
1. How much of a dove or a hawk is Pezeshkian, which many consider “a wimp” (but also therefore pressurable by the hawkish ones within Iran, notably the all-powerful and quite bellicose Revolutionary Guard, not just the USA, whose power of deterrence is very limited, as it can’t really deploy enough non-nuclear might much less expect it to be safe from Iran-Resistance retaliation — those ships and bases are sitting ducks, really).
2. Does truly Iran not want a regional war at this stage? Israel and even the USA have been proven very weak and powerless and the outrage of the Gaza Genocide is too much to bear for everyone with a bit of humanity left in all the region (and beyond). If Iran plays this situation well, it can totally defeat the USA via revolutions, coups and direct military action, because they have become the champions of the Muslim World (and beyond) by just supporting those with the higher moral ground ad standing firmly against the genocidal colony. It’s tricky however to pull it right but they do have that potential and anything, like the growingly rumored “dignity coup” in Egypt, can tilt the scales radically.
Pezeshkain is not in charge of foreign policy, Khameini is.
I think Iran doesn't want a war, but would rather the rest of the Axis drain Israel until it falls. But I think Iran is clear that this is unlikely to play out like that. Trying to delay it not going to work.
In my view the US-Iran war is inevitable, and Iran and the Axis need to get the first strike in. The US can do major damage to the infrastructure of Iran and the other countries, and some damage to the Axis military capability, so it's a case of "use it or lose it."
Pezeshkian is the President, he’s at least nominally in charge of everything, although of course the so-called Supreme Leader and the Revolutionary Guard hold a very large clout by design. That was demonstrated recently when people rallied around the President’s residence demanding retaliation against Israel… which was done in quite devastating terms soon afterwards. But everything depends on the President in terms legal, the SL only exerts generic supervision such as pre-vetting the candidates to elections.
In my view US-Iran war will be avoided because the USA will eventually fold out, acknowledged defeat and abandon the untenable genocidal regime. If I’m wrong, then the US military presence in the region will be destroyed for good by means military and revolutionary. It won’t happen overnight but won’t tardy either.
Again, you need to keep up:
All branches of the armed forces fall under the command of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces. The Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics is responsible for planning logistics and funding of the armed forces and is not involved with in-the-field military operational command. The commander-in-chief of the armed forces is the Supreme Leader.
Also:
Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran
فرمانده کل نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی ایران (Persian)
Incumbent
Ali Khamenei
since 4 June 1989
Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces
Seat Tehran, Iran
Appointer Assembly of Experts
Formation 6 August 1906
First holder Mozaffar ad-Din Shah
The position of Commander-in-Chief (Farmandehe Koll-e Qova (Persian: فرمانده کل قوا), formerly known as Bozorg Arteshtārān (Persian: بزرگارتشتاران), is the ultimate authority of all the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, and the highest possible military position within the Islamic Republic of Iran. The position was established during the Persian Constitutional Revolution. According to the Constitution of Iran, the position is vested in the Supreme Leader of Iran and is held since 1981.
After the 1979 Iranian Revolution and 15 days after the inauguration of the first president Abolhassan Banisadr in February 1980, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini delegated him as the Commander-in-Chief.[1] According to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, this was due to the illness of Ayatollah Khomeini and his concerns about the future of the revolution (in his absence).[2] In the decree from Khomeini to Banisadr it is mentioned:
At this critical stage where the need to concentrate forces is greater than any stage, you are appointed as my representative to the position of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the manner determined by the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.[1]
Following the impeachment of Banisadr in June 1981, the title of Commander-in-Chief was not transferred to the next president Mohammad-Ali Rajai, and is kept to this day by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
And I suspect you have little knowledge of who runs the US if you think the US will "bow out". It will not do that until it's actually lost, just like Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
I do agree that it will lose in the Middle East.
You seem to be right. I stand corrected re. Iran commander of the Armed Forces. Anyway, if so, why would Pezeshkian be targeted for the delay in Iran responding to the assassination of Haniyeh? Doesn’t make any sense if he only rules over internal matters such as the economy, really.
The USA is run by Wall Street, which right now pretty much amounts to three corporations: The Vanguard Group (which is mysteriously owned “by its customers”, meaning AFAIK that its CEO, Salim Ramij since May, is unchecked), BlackRock and State Street (both owned primarily by Vanguard). These companies basically keep Wall Street afloat in a post-market bubble of immense proportions… but they also own our arses, because they own everything that matters in North America and Europe alike.
"However, the White House is concerned that Iran’s response to Israel will lead to a regional war."
Script straight out of SNL
Like, who PROVOKED the war with assassinations of Iranian scientists, shelling of Iranian Embassy, killing of leader of another country in Tehran, killing of Iranian General on peace mission in Iraq?
Never mind what the idiots in White House says….! Israel cannot sustain a major war with Iran by itself or with US support…!
They should be concerned first of all that the US backed genocide in Gaza has already caused a regional war, which can easily turn global.
They should be concerned with human rights first since they are always spewing their superiority in such matters.
I suppose when Iran arms trains and funds multiple proxies around Israel to the teeth, is working on nukes, has one of its “moderate” leaders declare that Israel is a “one bomb country” and states that Israel will be destroyed in short order, there is reason enough to respond to their massive ballistic missile attack
Wow, talk about selective history.
Talk about rewritten history!
Precisely. I stand corrected
If you agree that Israel is indeed a "one bomb country", then it would seem to behoove its leaders to be very very careful not to piss off foreign counties who may, at a time of their choosing, develop such weapons, no?
“Not pissing off” works with normal countries and people. In the Middle East it's seen as a sign of weakness and is an invitation to the other side to push more and more.
This argument makes no sense. You are simultaneously counting on an entity (like the Islamic Republic) to be rational enough to respect force and irrational enough to not act "normally." It's one or the other.
In reality, Iran is quite predictable in its actions and very reliable in their deals. It's just that Israel, like its main sponsor, does not like to make even deals.
By “normal” I mean that countries generally do not seek conflict with countries that do not seek conflict with them. The Iranian regime above all wants to survive. If they understand that they can lose their instruments of power, they will stand back. In this sense they are rational.
It is projection. That is what these Zionist terrorists do. It is they who do not understand anything but force, they who constantly seek conflict, because conflict assures the Zionists the prevention of a peaceful solution. This very straighforwardly because Zionism is an ethnosupremacist ideology that is incompatible with peaceful coexistence, precisely because it needs to dominate in order to exist in the first place.
All the rethoric that Zionists and their supporters engage in, is in service of that: they are innocent, they are the victims, they are peaceful and they are civilized and blah blah blah.
Zionism needs to end. It should have already ended in the nineteenth century, even then people knew better.
Projection.
By all accounts – SO FAR, NOTE – this was another "lame" attack that achieved nothing and was mostly defeated by Iran's air defenses.
I had predicted that Israel would have to "go big or go home" – apparently they decided to "go home."
I will be interested in what news comes about what the deliberations were in Washington and Tel Aviv over this – if indeed this is the limit of the Israel response.
I expect the US stating that "they expect an Iranian retaliation" is part of the war propaganda. According to Professor Marandi, there appears to be no great call for Iran to retaliate at this point, and they may well hold back and limit themselves to trolling Israel about how weak the attack was.
Even if it was a fiasco, it was an act of war that will be responded almost certainly.
Israel is biting more than can swallow. The USA too.
Obviously, we refueled the Israeli jets. How else could the jet fighters travel the 2,000 from base, back to base?
IDK: it’s unclear if there were any airplanes over Iran (missiles is what has been mentioned, not airplanes) and I haven’t checked which are the refueling capabilities of Israel, which I believe do exist.
The missiles were apparently air launched from planes. I expected either Jerichos or submarine launched cruise missiles, but it appears to be strictly an air operation – which the Iranians were prepared for and Israel and the US should have known Iran was prepared for it.
Which is why I think something is wrong with this picture.
The submarines are stuck in the Mediterranean and have only 75 km range, not usable. Jericho missiles are land-land type (and only Jericho III have the range to hit Iran), the missiles used if actually launched from airplanes (from where exactly?) should be another lighter type.
I know it is very hard to comprehend.
It'll come to you eventually.
From Wikipedia: The maximum unrefuelled range is 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) traveling on the surface at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) and over 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged; they are designed to remain unsupplied for up to 30 days on station.[9]
The cruise missiles they carry – reportedly with a 20kt nuclear warhead – have a range of 1,500km.
They've been known to go as far as the Persian Gulf.
I analyzed these in my Substack articles covering the "correlation of forces and means" and the nuclear option.
The Popeye missiles that those submarines can handle have their own Wikipedia page, which clearly states that their range is 75km. However the Popeye Turbo, which is the one you seem to refer to, is said to have a range of 320 km. So I stand partly corrected (I was using the regular Popeye range unaware of the Turbo variant) but I do not believe the claim that a 320km range missile was made to fly 1500km, it just makes no sense and seems rather a very sensationalist report.
In any case those submarines are going nowhere near Iran without everybody watching them transiting the Suez Canal, assuming Egypt allows (it’s obligued but they may make an exception, you know, it has happened before).
Yes, it was unclear in the Iranian air defense radars. They never saw what hit them.
Iran knows better now. They will stand down or else lose a lot more on next Israeli attack.
Just say Allah Akbar and move on.
I don’t say “Allahu akbar” because I don’t believe in the Jewish false deity (Christianity and Islam are also Judaism). There’s only one God: Reality, and we are its finite avatars, all the rest is idolatry of words and old mouldy ink. Praying is worthless, it’s people who make things happen.
The Israelis have had aerial refueling capabilities for decades.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/aerial-refueling-in-the-israel-air-and-space-force/
Israel has its own refueling capapibikty
Do some research on the IAF capabilities. It would take only 5 minutes to find out Israel can refuel their own planes in the air.
Prima facie evidence of long-forecasted interference in US elections by a foreign nation. Not Russia. Not China. Israel. I.e. the most powerful government in the world. For now. Needless to add: the US Deep State is totally OK with this. Complicit, of course.
For over two and a half years, I have predicted that the 2024 US election would not take place. Even at this late date, I have not changed my mind. Indeed, votes cast before and on(?) Nov. 5 will not nullify my prediction. The "election" will be all about what happens after that date. Or doesn't. Netanyahu announced that these attacks on Iran would precede the US election. There's one politician who–for sure–has been transparent.
The Netanyahu/Smotrich/Ben-Gvir "general's plan" is to clear the areas of Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, even parts of Egypt, for the "greater Israel".
Israel will hold the Golda Meier nuclear threat over all who would venture to stop them. (she made that threat in an interview in 1973).
Unclear to this moment what damage, if any was done. Iranians were posting mocking videos searching in the Tehrani skyline for the effects of the suppossed strikes: no fire or smoke anywhere, other videos showed small roadside fires or anti-aircraft shooting down something, apparently a missile.
They also reportedly attacked Khorasan and Ilam provinces. Iran says that the damage is "limited".
Israel also bombed Damascus, with at least some interceptions by the Syrian anti-aircraft and Iraq (unclear what happened).
Overall it seems like a "limited provocation" and somewhat of a fiasco. There is of course great risk of escalation, as Iran has repeatedly warned in very harsh terms against any such attack.
Here’s the message to Iran. We can destroy all your air defense systems. Then we can fly at will over Iranian airspace for 4 hours and do what we want. The damage done to Iran was limited but the message is clear. They would be wise to consider this
That’s not the message I read, nor you should read, nor certainly what Iranians are reading. Rather it reads: “the, so far untested, Iranian Air Defense Force scored very well in a real war scenario, almost no damage was done by the attackers”. We now know that the only damage caused by the Zionist attack was a single aircraft battery, where two officers were killed. We do not know yet how many Israeli warplanes were shot down, because I’ve seen videos of interceptions but it’s unclear what was intercepted (plane or missile), Syria also claimed at least some successful interceptions. Before the last Iranian strike Israel had only 39 F35, the only long distance and nuclear capable jets they have, and, once they lose them (many were destroyed in the last bombing of Zionistan, unclear how many but credible analysts claimed that “20”), they are left with only whatever Jericho III rockets they have for any hostile operations agains Irania or even Iraqi territory. Meanwhile the Iranian missile arsenal remains absolutely massive and totally unaffected by this strike.
There’s no wisdom in bowing to GENOCIDE anyhow. Never again! Not in our watch!
My goodness. Is this taken directly from the Ayatollah’s website? If Iran had shot down an Israeli plane, we would have seen it on Iranian TV within 3 minutes. Israel was flying unhindered across Iranian skies for 4 hours last night. Iran had about 3000 ballistic missiles. They’ve used about 500. They probably lost a few hundred last night. Their military is quite primitive compared to Israel’s and they were shown that last night. That’s why I don’t think they will retaliate. They will claim that very little damage was done, that they inflicted damage on Israel and that as far as they’re concerned it’s done
And your "information" is from what source? The lying IDF? It's worth … well, something unprintable.
More impartial sources seem to believe that the attacks, such as they were, were through missiles fired by planes standing off the borders of Iran … otherwise, Israeli planes would have been in range of AA.
S300 silos were destroyed in the first wave, probably by standoff munitions. There were 2 additional waves over a 4 hour period that flew unmolested in Iranian skies and did the damage to missiles, missile production sites and drone production sites. Believe what you want.
Neither you nor me know how many missiles Iran has or can build in its factories almost overnight, they have not used 500 hypersonic missiles at all: the last bombing was some 200 only (almost all on target, destroying much of the Israeli military capabilities, probably halving its F35 air fleet, which was never large anyhow) and the first one did not include hypersonics AFAIK, but mostly less powerful weaponry such as drones and conventional missiles (which are now pretty much considered “obsolete” but still managed to hit in many cases).
They will not just retaliate but they are surely considering themselves already in terms of total war with Israel. We’ll have to wait to the next official discourse but that’s what I’m gauging, as Israel has shown its incapability again (still not a meter inside Lebanon, still absolutely unable to dislodge any resistance, not even Hamas, which exists and fights deadly inside a death camp). Israel is a minuscle colony the size of Albania, while Iran is a regional power the size of Mexico with military capabilities in terms of land forces and rocketry close to those of Russia (not quite but maybe half?)
I know that the USA is fighting a genocidal proxy war for its imperial survival in the key-est global region, the one which backs its financial hegemony via the petrodollar scheme (oil-backed USD de facto), but I also know that everything the USA has in the region (its fleet, its military bases, Israel itself) are “sitting ducks” for the Iranian massive missile power. Only nuclear threat could dissuade Iran but that’s clearly countered by Russian and Chinese nuclear threat, at least for as long as Iran plays by the rules, some rules, unclear which exactly (but probably not destroying Saudi Arabia is one of them, MBS has been catering to China and Russia very much, as they actually protect his rotten realm better than the USA could, now they’ve gone as far as to organize joing military exercises with Iran and other regional powers).
Israel’s Strike last night against Iran has likely caused Massive Damage to the Iranian Long-Range Ballistic Missile Program, with one of the Key Targets being a Series of 12 “Planetary Mixers” used to produce Solid-Fuel for Ballistic Missiles. The Mixers are said to be “Highly Sophisticated” and will not be able to be Repaired in Iran, with them instead having to be Remanufactured in China which could take at least a Year.
Zionist propaganda. It was a total fiasco but they managed to kill four AAA officers. We don’t know how many Israelis died, how many F35s were shot down (Israel has only a very limited number of those).
All estimates I’ve read seem to agree that Iran had some 3000 missiles. None are hypersonic despite Iranian claims. They had 2500 remaining after Oct 1. It’s unknown how many were destroyed last night but even worse, Iran’s missile production facilities were hit last night. And they have few if any S300s left to defend Iranian skies. Apparently they scrambled some fighters yesterday but quickly realized they didn’t stand a chance and landed. In any case, Iran realizes that if they retaliate, the next attack by Israel will be harsher and will also take aim at their petroleum installations which will be very painful. This is why I think they will continue to minimize the results of the Israeli attack and not retaliate, or make a very small symbolic response. Of course they may also mobilize some of their agents elsewhere and try to attack Israeli tourists or Jewish targets outside of the Middle East.
You live in a bubble, what was what stroke Israel just weeks ago? 180-200 hypersonic missiles, almost all hit their targets, devastating without any warning the Israeli Air Force and other military. We saw the videos of Nevatim.
I don’t know where you get your figures from, all the sources I’ve checked can’t really assess the number of missiles of any type Iran has, only their types. You claim they have 3000 but it can be 30,000 or whatever. And they can be produced as we speak.
I analyzed the 3,000 figure on my Substack articles. As it happens, it appears Iran only has less than 1,000 capable of hitting Israel. The rest can hit much of the rest of the region, intended to be used against the US facilities (and maybe the Saudi oil facilities if necessary.)
Drones are another matter, however, no useful figures available for that. Could be thousands or even more. But the warheads will be less effective and the drones possibly easier to hit, depending on their capability. Hezbollah's been using them very effectively.
Also a correction: only around 9 of the Iran missiles that attacked Israel were (more or less) "hypersonic." The rest were either drones or older, slower expendable missiles used to soak up Israeli air defense missiles.
Drones are surely much better used in closer ranges, that’s clear. But I disagree with your claim about so few Iranian missiles: every single article or video I’ve seen on the matter states that the figures are unknown but are massive, because basically Iran has been doing nothing but building those weapons in the last decades.
Very true.
Nearly every stinking major news network, from Cuomo to CNN, is calling the attack a "retaliation" for the 1Oct attack by Iran.
The meme by the networks that Israel is attacking the "terrorists" in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon, never once mentioning that for the past year Israel has been killing Palestinians of all ages, bombed hospitals, bombed schools, killed journalists, and, started this tit-for-tat with the shelling of the Iranian Embassy.
Before that, Israel assassinated several Iranian scientists, were involved in the assassination of Soleimani, while he was on a peace mission in Iraq.
The Israeli attack tonight was "retaliation" ???
American voters are like mushrooms. Keep them in the dark and feed them manure. But the vast majority of nations know exactly what is going on, and they blame Biden in the same breath as Netanyahu.
They and their crews are the top of the line WAR CRIMINALS, equals to Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler and many more.
The establishment media writ large are war criminals. No question about it.
However, I heard that the LA Times didn’t endorse any presidential candidate, and the daughter of the owner said that they couldn’t support genocide (system update). I wonder if their coverage has been more accurate along the way?
Do let us know any additional information ED.
words are cheap and they know it does not matter whom they endorse of the two cloned candidates.
Both have no character and both promise to continue the same policies Biden leaves behind.
Thanks, finally someone calls MSM journalists what they really are, WAR CRIMINALS.
The Biden administration has really prefectd and reached a new low of using double speak.
What does double spoken mean?
noun. dou·ble·speak ˈdə-bəl-ˌspēk. : language used to deceive usually through concealment or misrepresentation of truth. also : gobbledygook. doublespeaker. Merriam-Webster
"However, the White House is concerned that Iran’s response to Israel will lead to a regional war"
As usual they put the blame on and fault Iran not Israel. Israel is always the victim. It is always acting in self defense.
"The US claimed Israel’s attack on Iran was an act of self-defense. “We understand that Israel is conducting targeted strikes against military targets in Iran as an exercise of self-defense and in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack against Israel on October 1st.”
If you attack a country, that country has the right to fight back.
Iran asked for this.
I don't remember anyone here complaining when Iran attacked Israel and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine for almost 3 years.
And according to you, Israel is the violated virgin
😉
A bit of ego?…. Ahem.
More, a bucket full of ego sh*t.
If you attack a country, that country has the right to fight back.
I don't remember anyone here complaining when Iran attacked Israel
Now read what you wrote and think real hard. Why did Iran attack Israel? Hint: You already answered yourself.
Likewise.
Is rude your middle name, woman child?!
Care to expound?
You must be from another planet.
Bloody brilliant! NOT!
Perhaps it will even things out, maybe?….. I hope.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has said they will respond. They are bound by The Quran to do what they say, that is righteous.
I doubt they will do anything because they know Israel just gave them a way out. If they insist and go for it, Israel will hit them were it really hurts. Iran's air defenses are blind against Israeli capabilities. The Russian S300 and S400 are no match.
Ukraine takes those out with $500 drones.
Ukraine (US/NATO) already lost, that is the truth. Iranians are rational the same can't be said for the Zionists in Israel and US. Their lies will not safe them, they already lost, that is why they must tell lies and why they lost the war of propaganda already.
Of course WW III could take care of all of us with nothing but scorched earth left.
Sure, believe that.
Based on credible evidence I know, I do not believe what political liars and propaganda say. You believe whatever suits your narrative, that is your right.
They are bound by a book to do something stupid?
Just like the fanatics with nuclear weapons who feel bound by the old testament's binding them to slaughter babies.
Remember the old tale about a Jewish mother taking leave of her son, who had been called up to serve in the czar’s army against the Turks.
“Don’t exert yourself too much,” she admonishes him, “Kill a Turk and rest. Kill another Turk and rest again…”
“But mother,” he exclaims, “What if the Turk kills me?”
“Kill you?” she cries out, “Why? What have you done to him?”
Unfortunately this is no joke.
Shame on @antiwar for deleting my comment. Thus I will have to let two Jews (Uri Avnery and Ira Chernus) tell the joke. I guess they've labeled me an antisemite. Oh well it just goes to show you that even the greatest champions of free speech can't protect it.
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2010/06/06/exodus-2010/
https://original.antiwar.com/chernus/2010/06/07/what-have-we-ever-done-to-them/
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Free speech is not at issue. You can say anything you like. Whether you get to use Antiwar.com’s microphone to say it more loudly than you could say it unassisted is up to Antiwar.com. Just like I’m free to get drunk and sing Auld Lang Syne, but not free to get drunk and sing Auld Lang Syne at 3am in your living room without your permission.
As for the joke, it would have worked just as well without any ethnic references at all.
@knappster:disqus Thanks Thomas you are right on all 3 counts. I posted twice because I thought the first was deleted. Now I see both are posted. I assumed it was because I mentioned Jews.
You are also right about free speech. These forums as private actors represent the ideological worldviews of those who run them, they can either choose to amplify any voice or not. I am careful in my posts, and I know my own intentions. However, as Palestinians Muslims we feel trapped in this sick western relationship to the sensitivity of antisemitism.
Finally, I agree that in cases where misunderstanding can occur it is better to be general than specific. This goes back to my point above. There is a barrier to explaining the Arab Muslim position on our cousins in western discourse. It is Euro-America that has a twisted relationship with Jews and many Jews take it out on us their cousins. So we are caught in the middle. The depraved western mind (not the ones who are not depraved) projects on us that we hate the Jews. Its the west that has been persecuting them for centuries. Its the west that insists that Jews need their own state or otherwise they wouldn't be safe. (The insidious message is you won't be safe amongst us in the racist west). Then the European Jews whose ancestors have lived with us for centuries insist on displacing us, and with the help of the west establish themselves at our expense in a state that seeks to dominate the majority. And yet they call us antisemites, etc.
My point is that when I say a joke like this about Jews, I don't hate all Jews. I don't believe Jews are inferior. It wasn't a racist joke. It was actually well intentioned and is a joke I only heard from Jews themselves. Again, I feel something is wrong here in the west when I have to explain myself when I know Muslims and Arabs are scapegoated and implicated in a "Judeo-Christian" problem of their own making (i.e. Jews and the West). Hamas leader Ahmed Yasin said it decades ago and it is now in the amended charter. We don't hate Jews because they are Jews. We hate them because they displace and kill us. And it goes without saying that if they don't do that or support those who do we are not talking about all Jews. So its better not to generalize.
You’re correct — among the words that trip our moderation filters is the word “Jew” or any variant thereof (in fact, my own comment here will get grabbed by the filters and I’ll have to come back and manually approve it).
There are a number of other things that can trip the filters, but that one has always been a big one because we occasionally get attacked by clearly organized groups of Stormfront types attempting to flood the comments with opinions that you don’t seem to share. So it just means some comments may take a little while to show up. I usually pop in every hour or so, 12-18 hours a day, during the week. Weekends not quite as frequently. If I’m 1) awake and 2) at home, I check as often as I have time to.
I personally hate the inconvenience of it all to commenters. But when I took this job 15 years ago or so, it was because I was the only one willing to do so and commenting was just going to be done away with if someone didn’t do it. I’d rather have sometimes-inconvenient commenting than no commenting.
Thanks for the work you do. I can be counted on to learn, teach what I know and a willingness to concede when I have erred.
Well said ! Good to see a positive ( adult) discussion.
You’re correct — among the words that trip our moderation filters is the word “Jew” or any variant thereof (in fact, my own comment here will get grabbed by the filters and I’ll have to come back and manually approve it).
There are a number of other things that can trip the filters, but that one has always been a big one because we occasionally get attacked by clearly organized groups of Stormfront types attempting to flood the comments with opinions that you don’t seem to share. So it just means some comments may take a little while to show up. I usually pop in every hour or so, 12-18 hours a day, during the week. Weekends not quite as frequently. If I’m 1) awake and 2) at home, I check as often as I have time to.
I personally hate the inconvenience of it all to commenters. But when I took this job 15 years ago or so, it was because I was the only one willing to do so and commenting was just going to be done away with if someone didn’t do it. I’d rather have sometimes-inconvenient commenting than no commenting.
You’re correct — among the words that trip our moderation filters is the word “Jew” or any variant thereof (in fact, my own comment here will get grabbed by the filters and I’ll have to come back and manually approve it).
There are a number of other things that can trip the filters, but that one has always been a big one because we occasionally get attacked by clearly organized groups of Stormfront types attempting to flood the comments with opinions that you don’t seem to share. So it just means some comments may take a little while to show up. I usually pop in every hour or so, 12-18 hours a day, during the week. Weekends not quite as frequently. If I’m 1) awake and 2) at home, I check as often as I have time to.
I personally hate the inconvenience of it all to commenters. But when I took this job 15 years ago or so, it was because I was the only one willing to do so and commenting was just going to be done away with if someone didn’t do it. I’d rather have sometimes-inconvenient commenting than no commenting.
The reason people assume that you hate Jews is because you say so. It’s done in your demonstrations and in your prayers constantly. We don’t hear “Israeli” we hear “Jew”.
Things should be aligned to calm down, after Iran’s response.
The US needs a better message to Israel.
Israel is overly assertive, at times…
That is putting it mildly. The Zionist Israelis are Satan's disciples and just plain evil.
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Remember the Abraham Accords, yay, those were the days.
GeoPolitiQ’s Substack did a good recap of the Israeli attack:
Israel humiliated as Iran foils Israeli attacks https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/israel-humiliated-as-iran-foils-israeli
Here is my response:
Response to GeoPolitiQ’s “Israel humiliated as Iran foils Israeli attacks”
“and save Netanyahu face. ”
Well, it won’t do that. This was a very “lame” attack, much like the one Israel did last April. I predicted that Israel would have to “go big or go home” after the last Iranian attack, but for some reason – assuming that the Israeli retaliation actually has ended – Israel decided it couldn’t do “big”.
We’ve all known that for Israel to attack Iran without using Jericho missiles requires massive planning and effort to get its jets that far in sufficient numbers with refueling to actually do any significant damage to Iran. Apparently this has now been proven – twice.
I expected that Israel would use either a missile strike – with or without nuclear warheads – or a submarine launched cruise missile attack – on Iranian nuclear sites and oil facilities. Attacking air defenses and missile building sites is a pointless attack for two reasons: 1) Without the ability to overwhelm the air defenses – which requires a large-scale attack by cruise missiles – the attack will fail, and 2) if you can’t hit the missile launch sites, hitting the production plants is not going to help immediately in the event of a conflict.
Secondly, the entire thrust of the Israeli and US campaign against Iran is over its nuclear energy facilities. Without its nuclear energy production, weapons production of any kind – nuclear or missile – would be severely restricted. Not to mention the entire so-called “justification” is Iran’s alleged (and non-existent) “nuclear weapons program.” So not hitting that target out of the gate is just stupid from the US and Israeli viewpoint.
Also if you want to provoke Iran to start a war – as both the US and Israel want – not hitting such facilities as the nuclear energy and oil facilities isn’t going to be much of a motivator.
So why Israel did not use its missiles or submarines to attack Iran, and why it picked such lame targets as some radars and missile production plants (if they even were missile production plants) is a mystery to me. It makes no rational sense. This implies that someone or something constrained Israel from its proper military response. Whether that was the US or Russia or Israel’s own fear of the Iranian response – without the US to bail it out, so far – or simply the constraints on Israel’s military capability in some unknown aspect is not clear to me.
The other possibility is that this attack was a “cover” for a more covert Israeli attack to be executed later. As some have suggested, Israel may be planning more assassinations or other provocations against Iran closer to home – similar to the Israeli attack on the Iranian Consulate in Syria in March. This would provide Israel with the ability to further provoke Iran to justify a US intervention against Iran while minimizing the difficulty of directly attacking Iran on its own.
The issue for Israel is always how to get the US to do the heavy lifting against Iran while enabling Israel to escape the brunt of Iran’s long-range missile capability (as well as Hezbollah’s) so that Israel can mostly escape intact and continue the genocide of the Palestinians.
Whether Netanyahu and his team have the smarts to accomplish that goal is unclear, even with US neocon support for it. Both the neocons and Netanyahu may have miscalculated by starting the Lebanon war too soon while the Iran war and US involvement in that war is still hanging fire.
What the neocons and Israel can do to rectify that is also unclear. Whether this current state of affairs will derail the entire neocon and Israeli project is also unclear.
As much as I understand sounds rational to me.
I think the Israeli and US Zionists maneuvered themselves with their backs against the wall in a corner.
The Israelis are not known for targeting military sites. They are known to be liars and carpet bomb and slaughter civilians, mostly women and children, as most of the world knows.
They should go to hell where they came from, but they want their war with Iran first.
Even the White House acknowledges that Iran will counter-strike. I don't think it'll be minor, as Israel has killed two military officers and anyhow Iran is feeling more and more emboldened as the Zio-colony is clearly very weak and close to total economic collapse.
The mood music I'm hearing is that Iran will stand down – but that is only a 'rumor' or a voice of an unknown origin – if what @richardstevenhack:disqus reports here earlier has any truth to it then perhaps the Iranians do not need to strike back (directly)?
As far as I can judge the Iranians can put a much higher cost on the Israelis (and the wider west) by its asymmetric war.
It’s the voice of Big Brother telling you how invulnerable is Oceania, it’s the voice of being brainwashed into impotence vs the powerful, the apparently powerful which are losing the ground under their feet as we speak.
Iran has already declared that they will retaliate, the USA acknowledges that much, the only doubt is whether is how worse than the previous bombing will it be: will they use 500 hypersonic missiles or will they invade by land (nobody really can stop them in between: Iraq is not even “Belgium”, it’s a country deeply wanting to join forces with Iran and Syria in direct all out war against the genocidal colony, it’s at best like Lebanon: a failed state with a simulacre of government that can’t even rule its own territory. Israel has no local allies at all, nor does the USA even: all those military bases are legacy of decades of invasions but now they’re turning into true liabilities for their hosts, which will either be ravaged or dissuade the USA from using them at all.
Funny. How far do you thing iranian land forces could get on their march to Jerusalem? You have delusions of grandeur
Who would impede that? It’s two days march and two of the three US bases on the way have already been destroyed by the Iraqi Resistance. If the USA tries anything, all its bases and ships in the region would become targets of the Iranian missiles right away and Hormuz Strait would be blockaded, all big no-no. The only question is the stand of the Iraqi government, as it’d be difficult to pull that out if Iraq opposses.
Yes, it’s a bit “megalomaniac” but not so much if pulled rightly, i.e. with a preliminary phase of securing Iraq and destroying (not by the hand of Iran but that of the resistance factions) whatever is still left of the US military presence in Iraq. There is pretext because the USA clearly aided Israel in their attack, allowing them to use areas of the Iraqi airspace they control. That’s what I believe will happen, although the exact details of how the US bases in Iraq and how the government at Baghdad will be “fixed” to fit the Iranian plans, are beyond my comprehension.
A related issue is whether Egypt and Jordan will be putsched, what AFAIK is also in the horizon, almost certainly for Egypt, and if the marching Iranian columns will make a detour to Kuwait in order to expel the Yankees and bring a lifeline to the Shias in Eastern Saudi Arabia and Bahrein, which would be gladly rise up in arms against Bin Salman if this one does not keep the USA under tight leash.
Just wait and see: big things are unfolding.
Two days march from Iran to Jerusalem? Sure — at at a minimum pace of 750 miles per day.
Rest assured, by the time any land force crosses the desert, Israel has been chard enough even Kurds would want a piece of that land.
Remarkable. It the last year Hamas has been decimated. They have a few hundred rockets left, less and less weapons and no more factories to make them. Hezbollah’s leadership is gone and many thousands of their fighters are dead, blind, or without fingers and genitals. Iran now sees how vulnerable they are. They are a paper tiger. And you Maju are saying how blue the sky is and how bright the sun shines😀
I would laugh if it wouldn’t be so serious (ongoing genocide). You don’t know that, you seem to be spawning Zionist propaganda and not actual information. Israel hasn’t touched the tunnels, they acknowledge that they do not control Gaza and that Hamas does instead, if you’d follow any informative source, you’d know of daily attacks by Al Qassam Brigades (the armed branch of Hamas) and less commonly other groups in which they destroy tanks an kill soldiers, you’d know of Israeli soldiers refusing to continue duty in Gaza because they patrol the same area every day and every day they dismantle booby trapped corridors that have to dismantle the next day again.
Hizbollah’s leadership is pretty much irrelevant, as the organization keeps pounding Gallillee every single day and the Zionist settlers are too afraid to go back (even if the Resistance does not target civilians). Basically Israel has already lost Northern Palestine: only the natives remain, along with occupation troops that are being pounded every single day. Losing Gallillee is no small deal: it’s not a just chunk of Palestine and a critical avenue for whenever the Resistance decides they’re able to invade and connect with the West Bank but it hosts the main port of so-called Israel (Haifa), which is being bombed regularly (even last night, while Zionistan was beating chest about attacking Iran, and not by Hizbollah in this case but by the Iraqi Resistance, which also bombed other targets in the same area).
I’m sure that Israel has caused some damage (although mostly death and terror against civilians, not real damage against the Resistance’s infrastructure or capability of causing damage almost at all) but those are the very limited “results” they can console themselves with after a whole year of genocide and unbounded murderous arrogance. The only paper tiger is the USA, remember that that figure was used by Mao to describe Capitalism, not, never, popular resistance.
I don’t know how “popular” the “resistance” is given how much destruction they’ve brought upon their people. You don’t seem to understand that in Israel every time a soldier is killed the families and the entire nation grieve. Pretty much every funeral is seen on TV. So we know exactly how many soldiers are wounded or killed. It’s quite different from Iran where the regime just pulls lies out of its ass and threatens to jail anyone who posts anything about the Israeli attack (literally). It’s true that Israelis can’t return to the north until Hezbollah stops firing rockets. But Iran built Hezbollah in order to prevent the exact thing that happened last night. They used to have 150-200k rockets. Most have been destroyed. Last night they fired 30 ineffective rockets while Israel was kicking the shit out of their sponsors. So don’t believe the garbage you’re reading. The Middle East is much different than it was a year ago. And Israel is definitely doing what they need to do to clean up the neighbourhood and make it safer for everyone. That’s why all the Sunni Arab countries are secretly cheering for Israel.
Do you mean in Gaza? Israel acknowledges that Hamas remains in control. Obviously Israel has not won the hearts of Palestinians with their genocidal brutality. They knew beforehand that Israel wanted to destroy them, and now they know even better: they have been corralled and bombed again and again. They already tried nonviolent resistance and were massacred, they may be victims of the most brutal genocide but they’re not dumb: they know who is their enemy and who fights for them and tries to keep a modicum of order and dignity as well.
Retired IDF general was interviewed and stated IDF KIA/WIA have run 1,000/month for 12 months.
Many believe that’s an significant undercount.
Merkava Tally as of Friday night local time
246 destroyed
686 approx damaged
At least it’s a credible figure, not the official death toll of Gallant.
Sheesh. Where did you get that nonsense? What’s the general’s name?
Israeli hospitals reported sometime in Dec. more than 10,000 WIA hospitalized.
Who is the retired general you wrote about?
Reported in Israeli press a couple of weeks ago.
Healthy discourse is good. Peace is always reliable!
And every day dozens of Hamas are killed and dozens of not hundreds surrendering. The average Gazan fears Hamas with good reason but in their hearts, who knows? Hamas has done nothing but bring misery to Gaza. And of course the leaders have enriched themselves at the expense of the average Gazan. They and their families are multibillionaires living in hotels in Qatar and Turkey. And Suha Arafat is worth several hundred million in Paris. Please
And we don’t know the Israeli casualties because everyone reporting honestly says that most of the casualties that we see in Resistance videos are not reported by the State of Israel, so the figure of fatalities is necessarily much much greater than the Great Deceiver says, after all Israel has been lying shamelessly since more than a year ago. Western media and even Arab one to a great extent still echo what Tel Aviv says but that’s almost invariably lies or half-truths at best. You cannot judge the reality based on Western mainstream media.
What you don’t understand that unlike in Iran or Gaza, the government has no control over what people say. When a family is informed of the death of a son, this immediately goes from the family to the media to announce the funeral which takes place within a day. Even if they wanted to, they couldn’t lie about it. Democracy and free speech man. Look it up
The government has limited control in all cases (Israel is not a “democracy”, much less now under martial law). Relatives may know the death but it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t trascend to the public bc it’s not in the official lists and the media does not investigate. They can and do lie, in fact there’s hardly any regime on Earth that lies more than Zionistan, while, because of other reasons, probably because they actually rely more on legitimacy than the pathetic genocidal colony, Iran or Hamas or Hizbollah do not generally lie, at most they conceal some sensible info or sometimes go overboard about their successes, which may be a bit less astounding than they claim (this applies rather to Yemen and only on some instances).
Just track what they say and what is demonstrated real afterwards, for example all the blood libel lies that Israel spawned after the Oct 7 2023 Hamas operation Al Aqsa Flood, which were all proven worse than outright lies but the worst mass murder crimes against their own citizens, whose deaths they tried to blame on Hamas.
There’s just too much BS here to which to respond. I will once again explain the following. Families are notified immediately of the death of a soldier. Families immediately put announcements in media in order to notify friends and family of funeral which takes place usually within 24 hours and of the 7 days of mourning. Media is aware of this and often the funerals are broadcast live. Just as you see many tens of thousands demonstrating for the hostages, the outrage would be massive if the death of soldiers was withheld. Once family knows, everyone in Israel and media knows and it headlines every news report. Lying is a problem that afflicts the other side.
Official report lists. I’m anyhow tired of your Zionist (fascist) Hasbara, really. Time to cut off this conversation because, you know: zero tolerance to fascism and genocide!
Which government? The Israeli government? You know that the Israeli government has a Chief Censor and a censorship department to make sure that all press conforms to the regime’s “security” claims, right?
The difference between the Israeli regime and the Iranian regime is that the Israeli regime is ethno-nationalist and the Iranian regime is theocratic. They both censor media, they both ban opposition political parties, etc.
BTW. Don’t Iran promise an “immediate” retaliation to any Israeli attack since Oct 1? What happened to that?
They said several things, depending on the speaker and the nuances of what they said. I don’t remember the word “immediate” but, even if real, define “immediate”: is it seconds, hours, days, weeks or months? Generally they wait till the funerals are over, especially because they love to read about how the Israelis are scared in their bunkers…
Israel launched attack from Iraqi airspace, Iran says
Iran says Israel's attack was launched from Iraqi airspace, some 70 miles from Iran's border.
"Iraqi airspace is under the occupation, command and control of the U.S. military," Iran's Mission to the United Nations posted to X.
"The US complicity in this crime is certain."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-launched-attack-iraqi-airspace-iran-says?fid=535941&nid=402086&topic=Israel%27s%20war%20on%20Gaza
Have you seen this crap?
Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog
ICC is a joke
23h
Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman
BREAKING: ICC replaces judge who was preparing to issue arrest warrant for Netanyahu
23h
The ICC on Friday said it would replace one of its judges on health grounds, in a move that could further delay issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu
Reuters:
Give him enough rope… ;-}
The criminals in Washington have undermined every international institution, they have the lawless world they wanted for themselves.
They should go back to hell where they came from.
It’s a global organized crime racket.
I like to suggest, as I have done many times, when you down vote a person, inform the rest of us as to why?!
Donna, I do understand your point. I don’t down vote because I think it is a waste of time, basically the posts are irrational and the posters are in denial. I try to ignore them.
People who are capable of up-voting or down-voting are also capable of commenting …. if they want to. They don’t owe anyone an explanation.
Novichok, Polonium, extortion, or bribery, do you think?
From 2021, they used mossad for intimidation and (not so) veiled threats:
Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes case: Report
Report claims ex-Mossad chief tried to pressure Fatou Bensouda into abandoning a 2021 war crimes probe.
….Cohen’s covert contact to pressure Bensouda took place in the years leading up to her decision to open a formal probe into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in occupied Palestinian territories, the report said, citing numerous anonymous sources.
Last week, Bensouda’s successor, Karim Khan, applied for an arrest warrant for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu based on that probe launched in 2021….
One individual briefed on Cohen’s activities said he had used “despicable tactics” against Bensouda as part of an ultimately unsuccessful effort to intimidate and influence her.
According to accounts shared with ICC officials, he is alleged to have told her: “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/28/israeli-spy-chief-threatened-icc-prosecutor-over-war-crimes-case-report
Wasn’t Netanyahu threatening them at one point?
“Nice family you got there. Be a shame if sumthin’ happened to them”.
This BS. Extortion and blackmail. They restoring to character assassination.
International court prosecutor who charged Netanyahu faces sexual misconduct accusation
https://apnews.com/article/war-crimes-international-criminal-court-sexual-misconduct-metoo-7519d876decb945aafc2215756df19b2
They are begging for a regional war. Rain dancing, calling in all shamans. For US to PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE fight — a world war hopefully!
Another lame theatrical stage play. Very disappointed you two.
If the US was so concerned about a nation sparking a regional war then they would be REALLY concerned about Israel's actions, continually attacking other nations
There is such great hope for Peace On Earth! Just look at our success here @ antiwar.com!
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Lying Western Press Scramble To Frame Israel’s Attack On Iran As Self-Defense
"Israel has launched a round of airstrikes on Iran which the western news media are falling all over themselves to falsely frame as “retaliatory” strikes against an unprovoked missile attack by Iran.
As always, history begins the moment Israel is attacked, and all events leading up to that attack vanish from the official record as the imperial propaganda services churn out their headlines."
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/10/26/lying-western-press-scramble-to-frame-israels-attack-on-iran-as-self-defense/
The western mainstream media not only lie but they’re also complicit in Gaza and south Lebanon genocide…!
https://medium.com/@hrnews1/israeli-settlers-dig-small-graves-in-front-of-palestinian-bedouin-school-in-jericho-west-bank-to-48a66bb41889
Israeli Settlers Dig Small Graves in Front of Palestinian Bedouin School in Jericho, West Bank to Intimidate Children
Israeli settlers have dug small graves, the size of children, in front of a school for a Palestinian Bedouin community in Jericho, West Bank, and has sparked widespread outrage and raised serious concerns about the safety and well-being of the Bedouin community in the region.
This disturbing incident, reported through various social media posts and news articles, has drawn attention to the potential implications of such actions and the need for a thorough investigation to ensure the protection of all individuals involved…..
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-invented-george-soros
Anyone know what happened to Consortium News website? It appears someone has hacked a redirect of their domain to some web designer's sample product of an architectural firm homepage as the resolution of the url consortiumnews.org
All links on the page appear to be circular. This looks to me like a DNS rearrangement at the host, i.e. probably a government op or screw up. Or someone hacked Consortium's host server. Or….
Iran can now keep the US Navy pinned down in the Middle East indefinitely protecting Israel from a retaliatory attack that may or may not ever come.