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Tom Welsh's avatar

"As predicted, the war is heating up. Israel is giving the finger to the world".

Ever since last October, I have believed that in launching Al-Aqsa Flood Hamas showed immense moral courage. By baiting "Israel", they challenged them to do their worst - knowing full well how horrible that "worst" would be. They deliberately sacrificed their comrades, women and children to the full fury of "Israel"'s malice, knowing how many of them would die.

By doing so, they forced "Israel" to give the whole world the finger - to admit, even boast, that they feel no moral constraints or compunction when dealing with Gentiles. In the last year, the rest of the world has been forced to look on at a continual series of "Israeli" atrocities and justifications. It's gradually getting harder to sit on the fence or pretend ignorance.

The alternative was to go on waiting passively until the "Israelis" either killed every last Palestinian or drove the survivors far away - where they would lose the right to call themselves Palestinian.

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Quan Nguyen's avatar

Happy birthday. I tried to buy you a meal. However, my employer blocks that website. Will get you a meal, once I have been home.

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Quan Nguyen's avatar

Done. Hope you have the best dinner ever.

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BJ's avatar

{Who are these NYT “experts”anyway? The interns who fetch coffee for the writers?}

Newspapers are a dying industry as is MSM magazines et al. Israel has exploited that to it's fullest advantage showering all of them them with millions of dollars to broadcast and publish their propaganda. The NYP is even worse - they continue to report and reference the beheaded babies and rapes.

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Laladge's avatar

Thank you and happy birthday! I wish you a surprising new year...

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El dragon's avatar

I am not sure if Iran, or anyone in the region, can do anything. If they responded decisively, after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Israel might be taken aback, at least for a moment. So Israel doesn't take kindly to weakness if their enemy shows any, just like Americans,  they are going for jugular and won't relent. They'll level Lebanon like Gaza and kill thousands of women and children in the process; they don't care. Iran won't do anything also because Russia can't help them, as they are deep in their struggle against the Western powers. This is also another opportunity for the Western powers to extend their war against Brics by isolating or even attacking Iran. 

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BJ's avatar

(Iran won't do anything also because Russia can't help them, as they are deep in their struggle against the Western powers.)

Precisely what that war was all about keeping Russia confined in order to prevent them from moving on the Middle East - it's about the trade routes and shipping corridors and the race for control. However you have over 2 million resistance troops that are battle tested and moving into the area. Whereas the USA and Israel are both back peddling. The entire world now see's both for what they truly are and will have a hard time trying to sell this war. Consider all the college kids that have been standing in solidarity with Palestine and how hard it will be to amass the troops this time - unlike 9-11 where they were hoodwinked. Even if they try to implement the draft it won't be easy.

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El dragon's avatar

Good points

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Steve Naidamast's avatar

Are you serious!?!? Russia just completely outfitted Iran with the most sophisticated ECW equipment in the world.

Able to intercept any signal at up to 5000km distant, the Iranians are now fully prepared to take on the Israeli Air Force and its missiles...

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El dragon's avatar

And what security guarantee has Russia provided Iran? Nothing substantial, and Raisi is now gone, apparently replaced by a weak leader.

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ZebraZ's avatar

You truly understand zilch about asymmetric and guerrilla warfare, nor about the long term strategic goals or picture if you really believe the crap you wrote! When the source of analysis is say NY Times, Americans remain dumb as they ever were and still wonder how the fuck they got their asses handed to them in Vietnam despite years of intensive B-52 carpet bombing and burning napalms as well as murdering over a million Vietnamese! Try to study some history if your brain can function outside of America!

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Occupy Schagen's avatar

Thank you Julian...

The Silencing of the Lambs is done by the MSM.

Anything that happens, that the Crumbling Zionist Empire Leaders don't like, is silently removed.

So i am listening outside their range...

->https://x.com/OccupySchagen/status/1840342208999838095

At the moment Satanyahu's plane was landing -on time- on Ben Gurion (home at last), he was met by a Hypersonic Firework-Welcome organised on the Airport by the Houthi's who must very much love him... ;-)

Sander

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Perseus's avatar

When this revenge comes, the job of our politicians and media will be to ensure we make no connection between this moment of savagery and insanity from us and the blowback. But they welcome this development to tie the screws tighter to become more authoritarian. Let's call it the 2001-idiocy 😁

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Richard V's avatar

Believe you're on point here--and Happy Birthday!

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