An Israeli missile has hit Iran, two US officials have told the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

Iranian state media is reporting that flights have been suspended over several cities, according to Associated Press.

Iran has been on high alert after Israel said it would respond to an Iranian attack against it on Saturday night

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        the passive voice is erasing attribution by saying "x happened” rather than the active voice, which would be ‘x was done by y’ or ‘y did x’

        I’m joking and saying that you think the violence really does just materialize from nowhere, totally depersonified.

        its very hard to perpetrate a genocide when you are dead.

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          I don’t think it materializes from nowhere, it materialize when people talk about removing that other group from existence. Not a joking matter. Genocide to “solve” Genocide is dumb.

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            so if someone just refuses to negotiate or compromise or be bribed, they can just do genocide and it’s fine?

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              Never said it was, but neither is the wholesale slaughter of people. Keep in mind you said “someone” not an entire country of some 9.5 million people.

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                but none of them will stop.

                that’s the thing. do Palestinian lives matter, or do “Israeli” lives matter? because they can’t both. the “Israelis” have seen to that, and since they have consistently made that choice with very little dissent over the past century+, I say they should be the ones whose lives no longer matter.

                if you say otherwise, you are genocidal.

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                  Israeli lives matter, as do Palestinians. Because they obviously both do and they both can. Why the quotation marks around Israeli? If you say otherwise, you are genocidal. Thankfully your opinion of the value of lives is as worthless as you deem Israelis to be.

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                    when you do a genocide, when your entire national project and identity is the commission of genocide:

                    no. your life does not matter, except as a target.

                    when ending your life slows a genocide, your life does not matter, except as a target.

                    when ending your culture ends a genocide, because your culture is literally only genocide and atrocities and hiding behind all the Jewish people in the world so they take splash damage from your bullshit, maybe that’s a culture we are better off without, just like the Russian royal family.

                    there is no such thing as “Israel”.