You get the distinct feeling that both sides are now just lobbing symbolic gesture amounts of weaponry at each other. Middle East equivalent of opposing football fans luzzing rubber matting at each other in Brighton station. Long may it last 🤞
Maybe this is as far as the Iranian retaliation goes for the Israeli strike that killed an Iranian commander in Damascus? For home consumption they need to be seen to be retaliating, but at the same time they must be fully aware that Israel and its allies are fully capable of neutralising that...
Post 9/11 America was also absolutely hell-bent on vengeance for the slaughter of innocent people. Which nation - or quasi-nation - worthy of the name wouldn't be? And so we go again. And again... :down:
Allow me to add in the wording that you seem to have conveniently left out of your first bullet point: 'Hamas got exactly the reaction they knew they would get from a hardline right wing Israeli government'
The wickedly savage events of 7th October speak for themselves really. Hamas got exactly the reaction they knew they would get from a hardline right wing Israeli government. And as always, the cowards then hide behind the skirts of women and the hospital beds of kids and let outraged global...
Nobody's seeking to shout people down or bully them off the board. But IMHO they should be called out when they attempt to subtly steer the thread by swamping it with links and videos of their choosing. And as for that other guy who posts all those videos from something called Double Down News...
You're completely correct on this one H. 'Tiny nations lining up screaming at Israel to stop is nothing more than gesture politics.'
Tho you're much less so on this one. 'Only the UN or the US can tell Israel to stop'. The UN is a toothless tiger, when push comes to shove. Every major nation...
If the Israeli army was 'random bombing' in such a densely populated area, then the figures would be astronomically higher than they're being quoted as. Not that any figure is a good figure :down:
Maybe, just maybe, those who support Israel's actions are as pissed off as Israel is with the cruel slaughter of innocents on October 7th. Which, lest we forget, is the worst attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. Hamas knew exactly how Israel would respond to such inhuman savagery. And...
Sorry @Bozza and mods if this besmirches your edict for the thread. But this guy does not post on this thread in the manner of a normal poster on this site. This is something else. Half a dozen links and a thousand word treatise every time he posts? I mean, really? We're clearly being steered in...