• electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Why would Netanyahu believe him? I certainly don’t. Slaughtering tens of thousands of people has gotten the same kind of “warnings” followed by billions more in lethal aid.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. won’t support any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios.

    America is already involved …

    Without the billions of dollars we give them, and the military support of putting troopa and ships right off the coast, Israel never would have attacked Iran to begin with.

    But even if that wasn’t true, Biden has a horrible record of not assisting with Israels genocides.

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    3 months ago

    Great news. Hopefully that means if Israel does it anyway they will pay a price too heavy to bear, and we can put the whole “escalate to cover our Gaza situation” thing to bed.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t see Iran going so hard that’s on the table. The last strike was beautifully calibrated to re-establish deterrence while doing little politically useful damage, for example.

        The real goal here for Israel is to bolster Netanyahu’s hold on power. Iran would just have to hit back hard enough it makes his situation worse, not better, and they could safely do that without the US umbrella. Of course, it all depends on what “won’t support” means. Time for me to read the article.

        Edit: Still not clear.

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      If you cheer on Iran’s strikes on Israel, remember that in addition to Jewish Israelis, Arabs, Palestinians, Muslims & Christians could lose their lives in the attack. Iranian projectiles endanger Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, Amman, Lebanon, Syria & Iraq. War’s not an online game

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        3 months ago

        remember that in addition to Jewish Israelis, Arabs, Palestinians, Muslims & Christians could lose their lives in the attack.

        Why would I care about them more?

        Iranian projectiles endanger Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, Amman, Lebanon, Syria & Iraq.

        As do Israeli ones. And of course these are all rounding errors compared to what else is happening in Gaza, which is what we’re being distracted from.

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          3 months ago

          I find it truly amusing when the Ceasefire Now crowd celebrates future attacks.

          Isreal doesn’t fly many air to ground missles. They use airplanes.

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    3 months ago

    No one actually believes that. This coming from the same guy that says ceasefire while they replenish weapons and draft an additional aid package.